epub |eng | 1996-08-05 | Author:Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008;Vaughan, Samuel S & Vaughan, Samuel S

William F. Buckley, Jr., became famous with hisfirst book, God and Man at Yale, thirty-seven booksago, and for leading the American Right into its posi-tion as a cohesive, thoughtful, and ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Cecelia Watson

D. H. Lawrence, who helped dredge Melville back up from obscurity in the 1920s, wrote of Moby-Dick that “there is something really overwhelming in these whale-hunts, almost superhuman or inhuman, ...

epub |eng | 2003-06-26 | Author:Susan Thurman

Using an Apostrophe to Form a Plural: A Rare Occasion Remember the store signs mentioned at the beginning of this section that incorrectly use an apostrophe: Special price’s this week! ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Robin Torres-Gouzerh

Where In a relative clause, where refers to a place in the independent clause and replaces a prepositional phrase indicating location. The preposition from the phrase replaced by where is ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz

4. impoverish v. To make a person or group poor The collapse of the steel industry impoverished several counties in eastern Ohio. Parts of speech impoverishment n 5. luxury n. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:Sheidlower, Jesse [Sheidlower, Jesse]

4. to astonish; bring up short. 1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 139: Sands of Iwo Jima. That’s the one that really fucked me around. fuckass noun a despicable or contemptible ...

epub |eng | | Author:Neala Shane

MALE NAMES A AARON [AYR-on] MEANING: teaching, singing, shining, mountain, exalted one • USAGE: English form of Aharon, from Hebrew aharon A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Ed Swick

Come You’re already familiar with this verb of motion that means “to approach, to move toward, or to arrive.” Its conjugation is irregular and has these principal parts: Four distinct ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Frank L. Cioffi [Cioffi, Frank L.]

Chapter 4 Punctuation, Part I—The Comma: Promiscuous Uses Introduction: Punctuation Substitutes for Oral Emphases, Facial Expressions, and Body Language When people speak, they consciously and subconsciously use an arsenal of ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:John McWhorter [McWhorter, John]

Grammaticalization as Spectator Sport From the point of view of one language, such as our own, it will seem as if grammaticalization serves to lend a language the tools it ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Tom Chatfield

59. Facepalms and *Acting Out* Some of the central innovations of online communications lie in techniques for adding emotional and physical information to a conversation typed while seated at a ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-26 | Author:Diane Engelhardt

Options and Alternatives Once you have identified the issues, you can go about exploring your options. Hopefully you can make a choice, but sometimes you may find that under the ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Wendy M. Anderson

Chapter 8 Avoiding Tricky Situations In This Chapter Including everyone with inclusive pronouns Unravelling some confusing word pairs Placing even, almost and only accurately Selecting present or past tense appropriately ...