MW Frequencies of Mulct: The Anatomy of Melancholy Burton, Robert 1621 – 448833 words; 9 occurence(s) Leviathan Hobbes, Thomas 1651 – 211574 words; 7 occurence(s) The Ring and the Book Browning, Robert 1869 -165978 words; 6 occurence(s) Other authors hardly…
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Incumbent
MW He had now a horror of vast super-incumbent buildings. They were a nightmare. Even the cathedrals. Huge, huge bulks that are called beauty. Beauty seemed to him like some turgid tumour. Never again, he felt, did he want to…
Deter
MW One of the effects of the free introduction of foreigners into any Navy cannot be sufficiently deplored. During the period I lived in the Neversink, I was repeatedly struck by the lack of patriotism in many of my shipmates.…
Noctambulist
What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist? Author and Text The reader, if he has ever plied the fascinating trade of the noctambulist, will not be unaware that, in the neighbourhood of the great…
Gourmandize
MW One day as they all three together wentTo the greene wood, to gather strawberies,There chaunst to them a dangerous accident;A Tigre forth out of the wood did rise,That with fell clawes full of fierce gourmandize,And greedy mouth, wide gaping…
Hale
MW Coole violets, and orpine growing still,/Embathed balme, and chearfull galingale,/Fresh costmarie, and breathfull camomill, /Dull poppie, and drink-quickning setuale*,/Veyne-healing verven, and hed-purging dill,/Sound savorie, and bazil hartie-hale,/Fat colworts, and comfórting perseline**,/Colde lettuce, and refreshing rosmarine. [* Setuale, valerian.][** Perseline,…
Technical issues in Safari
As you might have been aware, Quotations’ functionalities were not available in the Safari browser over the last weeks. This was related to technical issues with IndexedDB in Safari and outside of our control. It appears that Apple may have…
Oaf
MW For look into the world, and you shall see men most part esteemed according to their means, and happy as they are rich: Ubique tanti quisque quantum habuit fuit. If he be likely to thrive, and in the way…
Earthwork
… Not slow our eyes to find it; well we knew who stood behind it,Though the earthwork hid them from us, and the stubborn walls were dumbHere were sister, wife, and mother, looking wild upon each other,And their lips were…
Desiccate
MW Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made…