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The Way Of The West by Elmer Kelton
epub |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Elmer Kelton [Kelton, Elmer]

X With no expression, Marshal Anthony advised him that a wagon was waiting to take him to Waco where he would be held for trial. Dane told him to plan ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
Geektionary by Gregory Bergman
epub |eng | 2010-03-05 | Author:Gregory Bergman

franchise player (noun) A player on an NFL, NBA, or NHL team may be so designated when the player is the “face” of the team. Typically, the player will have ...
( Category: Word Lists March 6,2016 )
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition by Ammer Christine
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Ammer, Christine [Ammer, Christine]

l labor of love Work done for one’s satisfaction rather than monetary reward. For example, The research took three years but it was a labor of love. This expression appears ...
( Category: English March 2,2016 )
The Disappearing Dictionary by Crystal David
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Crystal, David

Central, middle; coming between the eldest and youngest in age. From Cumberland: ‘Is that t’auldest lad er youngest?’ ‘It’s nowder, it’s middlemer’. mim (adjective) Berkshire, Cornwall, Durham, Ireland, Norfolk, Northumberland, ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 1,2016 )
The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate by Eugene Ehrlich
epub, mobi, pdf |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eugene Ehrlich

O oak, pertaining to an quercine oar n. scull oar-shaped adj. remiform oath n. voir dire oath, taking an juration oatmeal n. flummery obedience n. Bushido, deference obedient adj. deferent, ...
( Category: Thesauruses February 23,2016 )
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols by Michael Ferber
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Ferber

N Nature “Nature” in Greek (physis) and Latin (natura) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand ...
( Category: European February 21,2016 )
The New Relational Database Dictionary by C. J. Date
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:C. J. Date

table 1. SQL analog of either a relation or a relvar, as the context demands. Here are some of the major differences between tables in SQL and their relational counterparts: ...
( Category: Information Theory January 15,2016 )
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Egri Lajos
azw3, epub |eng | 1899-12-31 | Author:Egri, Lajos [Egri, Lajos]

4 JUMPING One of the chief dangers in any jumping conflict is that the author believes the conflict is rising smoothly. He resents any critic who insists that the conflict ...
( Category: Writing Skills January 10,2016 )
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Eliza Merrett knew very little of books—indeed, she was barely literate. But when she saw how keenly Doctor Minor collected and cherished his old volumes, and when she listened to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2016 )
The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations (Expanded Second Edition) by Grambs David & Levine Ellen S
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Grambs, David & Levine, Ellen S. [Grambs, David]

WEATHER, FORCES OF NATURE, AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM WEATHER AND FORCES OF NATURE characterized by good weather fair, clear, pleasant, lovely, balmy, halcyon, temperate, springlike, summer-like, summery characterized by bad ...
( Category: Fiction January 6,2016 )
Vocabulary For Dummies by Laurie E. Rozakis
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie E. Rozakis

You can also use homophones to create puns. The key to creating puns is as follows: If you’re writing a pun, you want the words to be spelled alike; if ...
( Category: Vocabulary December 26,2015 )
French Menu Companion: Dictionary of French Food, Wine and Cheese by T Willilam Walker
epub |eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:T Willilam Walker [Walker, T Willilam]

mode style à la mode de in the style of boeuf mode beef braised with carrots, onions and red wine moelle marrow sauce à la moelle marrow sauce [typically: made ...
( Category: Dictionaries December 11,2015 )
MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS: Thesauruses, Plots, Character Traits, Names, and More by Bryn Donovan
epub |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Bryn Donovan [Donovan, Bryn]

A character makes a pun or terrible joke, and is very pleased with himself. His being a dork about it is what makes it funny. Someone makes a joke at ...
( Category: Thesauruses December 11,2015 )
Oxford Collocations Dictionary by Colin Mcintosh & Ben Francis & Richard Poole
epub |eng | 2011-11-06 | Author:Colin Mcintosh & Ben Francis & Richard Poole [Mcintosh, Colin & Francis, Ben & Poole, Richard]

( Category: Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses November 25,2015 )
The Dictionary of Human Geography by Michael Watts
epub |eng | 2009-06-21 | Author:Michael Watts [Watts, Michael]

Lamarck(ian)ism A theory of evolutionary change originating with the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744 1829). A non Darwinian doctrine of organic progres sion, early Lamarckism differed significantly from ...
( Category: Regional November 21,2015 )

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