MW ‘Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,And far the weaker with so strong a fear:My bloody judge forbade my tongue to speak;No rightful plea might plead for justice there:His scarlet lust came evidence to swearThat my poor beauty…
Tag: Merriam-Webster
Words of the day: April 13 – April 16, 2021 Foolery, Nab, Minatory, Discomfit, Obstreperous, Lodestone
I count religion but a childish toy,And hold there is no sin but ignorance.Birds of the air will tell of murders past!I am asham’d to hear such fooleries.Many will talk of title to a crown:What right had Caesar to the…
Gallant
MW Gallant in Shakespeare. But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. Bible Looking far foorth into the ocean…
Drub, drubbed, drubbing
MW ‘He was of opinion, that the English nation cultivated both their soil and their reason better than any other people: but admitted that the French, though not the highest, perhaps, in any department of literature, yet in every department…
Fatuous
MW The newspapers were at this time full of the pending strike of coal-miners and shearers: that is, the Australian papers. The European papers were in a terrific stew about finance, and the German debt, and the more imposing Allied…
Vendetta
MW Then the meaning of Earth in her children behold:Glad eyes, frank hands, and a fellowship real:And laughter on lips, as the birds’ outburstAt the flooding of light. No robbery thenThe feast, nor a robber’s abode the home,For a furnished…
Savvy
MW “Everybody make medicine,” he said lightly. And when I asked him if he were himself a good practitioner–“No savvy,” he replied, more lightly still. At length the leaves burst in a flame, which he continued to feed; a thick,…
Brusque
MW At the name of Haldin falling from the rapid and energetic lips of the woman revolutionist, Razumov had the usual brusque consciousness of the irrevocable. But in all the months which had passed over his head he had become…
Hare
MW But to make vp my tale,She breweth noppy ale,And maketh therof port saleTo trauellars, to tynkers,To sweters, to swynkers,And all good ale drynkers,That wyll nothynge spare,But drynke tyll they stareAnd brynge themselfe bare,With, Now away the mare, And let…
Pertain: To Fantasy pertains to choose
MW To Fantasy pertains to choose.All this I know : for FantasyFirst unto love did me induce ;But yet I know as steadfastly,That if love have no faster knot,So nice a choice slips suddenly ; It lasteth not.It lasteth not,…