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We had words. Each and every evening.
Sometimes, when he stopped for beer after work, we had dishes and pots and food, too.
| Amount of texts to »word« | 156, and there are 141 texts (90.38%) with a rating above the adjusted level (-3) |
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| First text | on Apr 12th 2000, 06:47:58 wrote julianne about word |
| Latest text | on Dec 2nd 2014, 10:43:04 wrote Salman about word |
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We had words. Each and every evening.
Sometimes, when he stopped for beer after work, we had dishes and pots and food, too.
Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.
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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt. II, l. 109
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There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain [1952], st. I
Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?
The word on my mind right now is >>weekend<<. It's only a few hours away!
I can't wait to get away from this office!!
mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions
Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?
on Mar 22nd 2001, 02:07:31, Natasha Jordan wrote the following about
word
Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:
»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«
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And how much courage.
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)
“Be careful what you say—you may have to eat your words.”
I don’t think so much about eating my words as about wearing them. When someone sees me, the words come back to haunt like a miasma around me. No matter how colourful my dress, bad words turn everything grey and muddy brown.
The >>Word of the Day<< today over at dictionary.com is >>oblation<<.
>>Oblation<< comes from the past participle form of the Latin verb* >>offerre<< meaning >>to bring<<.
So, an oblation is an offering or a gift.
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* A Latin verb is traditionally cited by giving four forms, in this case: offero, offerre, obtuli, oblatum.
The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.
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