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LANGUAGE, n. The...

LANGUAGE, n. The...

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

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LIMB, n. The...

LIMB, n. The...

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

Source: The Devil's...

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LINEN, n. A...

LINEN, n. A...

LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp. -- Calcraft the...

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LOSS, n. Privation...

LOSS, n. Privation...

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate...

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ME, pro. The...

ME, pro. The...

ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the...

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OATH, n. In...

OATH, n. In...

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for...

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MISDEMEANOR, n. An...

MISDEMEANOR, n. An...

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance...

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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible...

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible...

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our...

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OBSERVATORY, n. A...

OBSERVATORY, n. A...

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their...

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OWE, v. To...

OWE, v. To...

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant own, and...

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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly...

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly...

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable...

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PLATITUDE, n. The...

PLATITUDE, n. The...

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that...

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REFLECTION, n. An...

REFLECTION, n. An...

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and...

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RELIGION, n. A...

RELIGION, n. A...

RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the...

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REBEL, n. A...

REBEL, n. A...

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Source: The...

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RITUALISM, n. A...

RITUALISM, n. A...

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the...

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There are innumerable...

There are innumerable...

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh for someone...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh for someone...

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Upon the middle of the night.
Waking she heard the night-fowl crow.


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William Shakespeare: When daffodils begin...

William Shakespeare: When daffodils begin...

When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the...

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