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... chief adhere adhesion abdicate absurd achromatic adhesive abdomen abundant acinăciform adieu abduct abuse acicular adipose aberration abyss abeyance acalēphoid ăcid açiform adjācent adjective abhor ǎbject acanthaceous acanthus acme ...
... chief adhere adhesion abdicate absurd achromatic adhesive abdomen abundant acinăciform adieu abduct abuse acicular adipose aberration abyss abeyance acalēphoid ăcid açiform adjācent adjective abhor ǎbject acanthaceous acanthus acme ...
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... chief chieftain chicānery ( sh ) chiliometer chime ( cymb ) chimera ( chim air ) chimney ( ca- cartouch căvil cerulean min ) cartridge cavity cēruse chirography cascăde cēde cervical chirology cāseine ceiling ( cel ) cervine chiromancy ...
... chief chieftain chicānery ( sh ) chiliometer chime ( cymb ) chimera ( chim air ) chimney ( ca- cartouch căvil cerulean min ) cartridge cavity cēruse chirography cascăde cēde cervical chirology cāseine ceiling ( cel ) cervine chiromancy ...
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... ( chief , chef ) miscreant ( cred ) misdemeanor monetary 23 money ( monet ) monition monitor mendicant migrate ( men ) monitory mendicity mildew ( mell ) miser monk menial mile ( mill ) miserable monocular mensurable militant misnõmer ...
... ( chief , chef ) miscreant ( cred ) misdemeanor monetary 23 money ( monet ) monition monitor mendicant migrate ( men ) monitory mendicity mildew ( mell ) miser monk menial mile ( mill ) miserable monocular mensurable militant misnõmer ...
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... chief ; architect 184 ( the chief builder ) , archipelago 58 ( a sea interspersed with islands , like the Ægean Sea , the chief sea of the ancient Greeks ) , architrave 58 ( the lower part of the entablature , the chief beam resting on ...
... chief ; architect 184 ( the chief builder ) , archipelago 58 ( a sea interspersed with islands , like the Ægean Sea , the chief sea of the ancient Greeks ) , architrave 58 ( the lower part of the entablature , the chief beam resting on ...
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... ( chief , that on which a matter hinges ) . L. cardo , cardinis . Caric - load ; caricature ( a ludi- crous representation , an over- loaded picture ) . It . caricare . Carin - keel ; carinated , careen ( to incline so as to show the keel ) ...
... ( chief , that on which a matter hinges ) . L. cardo , cardinis . Caric - load ; caricature ( a ludi- crous representation , an over- loaded picture ) . It . caricare . Carin - keel ; carinated , careen ( to incline so as to show the keel ) ...
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acrogen allopathy ancient Anglo-Saxon animal bear beauty belonging bird blood body breath bright bring Cæsar called carry cast cause Celts chevel cicatrix cilium conquer conquest coruscate crown dark earth English language feel flow flower gether give Greece Greek gynarchy hand head heart heaven Hence hendecagon holy king land Latin lepidodendron light literature living look lustrum Macedon maulstick ment mind moon nature night o'er one's originally pass patronymics pheme plant pleion poem primogeniture Ptolemy QUOTATIONS rise Roman Roman Senate Rome round shine sing sleep song sororicide soul sound speak speech spirit stand stars stem stone sweet thee things thou thought thurible tion tongue trees truth turn uxoricide voice Whittier wild word youth
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Page 232 - To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him as he lay along Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish...
Page 231 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 126 - tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 64 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
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Page 178 - What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 190 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black — An ebon mass. Methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought. Entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 251 - And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible Majesty. Ah ! why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised...