Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:L. Ron Hubbard

The Devil’s Rescue The Devil’s Rescue HE had been cold so long that he had even ceased to dream of the great logs crackling in the old manor fireplace of ...
( Category: Short Stories June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-09 | Author:Mark Rosenfelder [Rosenfelder, Mark]

Ranks The traditional European noble ranks are these: king—OE cyning prince—Lt. princeps princip- ‘first’ duke—Lt. dux duc- ‘leader’ marquis—‘frontier (lord)’ count/earl—Lt. comes comit- ‘companion’ / OE eorl viscount—Fr. ‘under-count’ baron—Germanic ...
( Category: Etymology June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

7. Don’t Forget Where You Come From Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 11, 1996 Vonnegut celebrates his own hometown, and hopes that some graduates will become the kind of “saints” ...
( Category: United States June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-20 | Author:Don Kulick

10: matters of the liver Before Papua New Guineans encountered white people, they didn’t have writing. Their history and traditions (and their languages) were all oral. They were embodied in ...
( Category: Instruction June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:A Beginner's Dual-Language Book

on the frothing foam of the torrents of the Arven, slowly thicken, and seem to grow larger as they rise, swelling with an innumerable throng of phantoms tormented and twisted ...
( Category: French June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]

pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth. From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). • ...
( Category: Word Lists June 19,2019 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Anu Garg & Garg, Suti [Garg, Suti]

pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth. From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). • ...
( Category: Word Lists June 19,2019 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anu Garg

Not to spread too much negativity, here are a few words with positive meanings. Then again, you could use them in insults, too, as in telling someone, “You aren’t exactly ...
( Category: Word Lists June 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-06 | Author:Nichols, Sharon Eliza

50? CITY & SUBURBS • 75C ELSEWHERE J^55= Page 69 late SPORTS final I suntimes.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007 I AVERAGE Let’s get into it. STEPHANIE FELTEN, 27, AURORA ...
( Category: Satire June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Poet A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the ...
( Category: Essays June 7,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:Sanders, Ruth H. [Sanders, Ruth H.]

A CHANGE OF FORTUNE, A WAR OF WORDS In 1863 Czar Alexander II, emperor of Russia from 1855 until his assassination in Russia in 1881, boosted Finland’s language nationalists with ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Shell, Marc [Shell, Marc]

ILLUSTRATION 66 Rhine Maidens with Alberich Postage Stamp. Alois Kolb, 1933. The stamp was issued by the Reichspost of the German Empire. Permission granted by Collection Selechonek. Both the tragedy ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-03-17 | Author:Fee, Christopher R. [Fee, Christopher R.]

Heroic Journeys and Quests At the center of most hero myths is the quest. Through the quest adventure, the hero proves his worth and “makes a name” for himself. The ...
( Category: Medieval June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Mitchell, Bruce & Robinson, Fred C. [Mitchell, Bruce]

To understand the action of the poem, and especially the action in ll. 62–99, one must have some idea of the geography of the battle. (See map on p. 248, ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-05 | Author:Michael Garvey & Heather Dismore & Andrew G. Dismore

Drawing Drinking Crowds Creative bar owners bring in the crowds in a variety of ways. Behind every busy bar is a reason people come, whether it’s music, games, or drink ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism June 3,2019 )