Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:John Gibson Lockhart [Unbekannt]
* To hain any thing is, Anglice, to deal very carefully, penuriously about it—tyne, to lose. Scott often used to say, “hain a pen and tyne a pen;” which is ...
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Arts & Literature
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:John Gibson Lockhart [Unbekannt]
“19th August, 1814.—Loch Eribol, near Cape Wrath. Went off before eight a.m. to breakfast with our friend Mr. Anderson. His house, invisible from the vessel at her moorings, and, indeed, ...
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Arts & Literature
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Hubert van den Bergh
lucubrations (pl. noun) = pretentious writing (pronounced ‘luck-yoo-brey-shuhns’) from the Latin, lucubratio, from lucubrare: to work at night by lamplight (i.e. to have worked too many hours on a piece ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:John Gibson Lockhart [Unbekannt]
When we rose from table, Scott proposed that we should all ascend his western turret, to enjoy a moonlight view of the valley. The younger part of his company were ...
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Arts & Literature
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Singleton
7 Writing Verse JOHN LENNARD Wherever possible, the poems referred to in this chapter are included in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th Edition (New York & London: Norton, 1996), ...
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History & Criticism
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Alexis Munier & Emmanuel Tichelli
flambeur, flambeuse big spender, lit. burner Quel flambeur! Bernard a claqué 20’000 euro. What a big spender! Bernard wasted 20,000 euros. toucher le jackpot / le Pactole to hit the ...
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Slang & Idioms
March 2,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Ward Farnsworth
Dickens, David Copperfield (1850) The inverted negative also can be put to good use in the imperative mood. Peace, Kent! Come not between the dragon and his wrath. King Lear, ...
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Rhetoric
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Bill Beavis
Mate A friendly word meaning two who break bread together, or more precisely meat – two who share meat. From the old Teutonic word gamaton – ga implying a conjunction, ...
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Boating
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-26 | Author:Edward Noyes Westcott [Unbekannt]
The speaker paused and looked into the fire, smiling. The woman started forward facing him, and clasping her hands, cried, "My husband! What'd he have on?" "Wa'al," said David slowly ...
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Classics
March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Robert E. Quinn
Success Myths The shift from the ego-perspective to the eco-perspective can also be seen in some research we conducted on how people define success.6 We asked people working in professional ...
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Organizational Learning
March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-22 | Author:Ann Everett
PUSH/PUSHED Activate Advanced Advocated Backed Ballasted Blasted Bolster Boosted Bundle Cast Clash Coerce Deal Displace Drove/Driven Duel Elbowed Encouraged Endorsed Exhort Fight Flung Forced Forged ahead Forwarded Goad Heaved Hustled ...
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Reference
March 1,2020 )
azw, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-07 | Author:Ramakrishna Reddy [Reddy, Ramakrishna]
Dialogue can be used to convey the Core Message of your speech Dialogue can be used as a punch line for your laugh lines Another secret to quickly create humor ...
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Education Theory
March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-28 | Author:Gilmour, Rachael,Steinitz, Tamar.
The role of Kriol as a lingua franca amongst the highly diverse population here serves as an explanatory factor for its overt prestige in Belize, which presumably is one of ...
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History & Criticism
March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oittinen, Riitta,Garavini, Melissa,Ketola, Anne & Anne Ketola & Melissa Garavini
Reproduced with permission from Otava. Original: Hän otti suksensa, pitkän lylyn ja lyhyen kalhun , ja lähti hiihtämään. (“He took his skis, the long lyly and the short kalhu, and ...
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Social Sciences
March 1,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-11-23 | Author:Susanne M. Cadera,Andrew Samuel Walsh
This report, compiled in the censorship file 1901, Catalogue Number 21/11056, dates back to 1956 and is accompanied by a copy of the novel in Italian in which the censor ...
( Category:
Literary
March 1,2020 )
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