text:
帶狀

Adjective

 * 1)  zonal; banded

title: 帶狀


text: dàizhuàng

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title: dàizhuàng


text:
尻取り

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1) A Japanese word game wherein each player must produce a word that begins with the kana that the previous player's word ended with. Only nouns may be used. Words may not be repeated, and a player who chooses a word ending in ん (n) loses, since no normal Japanese noun begins with ん (n). Word chain.
 * 2) capping verses

title: 尻取り


text: 蛆虫疗法

title: 蛆虫疗法


text: 蛆疗法

title: 蛆疗法


text: 蛆疗

title: 蛆疗


text:
蛆蟲療法

Noun

 * 1) maggot therapy

title: 蛆蟲療法


text:
蛆療法

Noun

 * 1) maggot therapy

title: 蛆療法


text:
蛆療

Noun

 * 1) maggot therapy

title: 蛆療


text: qūchóng liáofǎ

title: qūchóng liáofǎ


text: qūliáofǎ

title: qūliáofǎ


text: qūliáo

title: qūliáo


text: 蛆虫

title: 蛆虫


text:
蛆蟲

Noun

 * 1) maggot
 * 2)  despicable person
 * 3)  mosquito larva

title: 蛆蟲


text: qūchóng

title: qūchóng


text:
remoldable

Adjective

 * 1) Repeatedly moldable.

title: remoldable


text:
Ziggy

Etymology
From, a nickname for any number of names beginning with , e.g. , , etc.

Proper noun

 * 1) A nickname mainly for men, but occasionally also for women.

title: Ziggy


text:
thấu kính

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) a lens

title: thấu kính


text:
請帖

Noun

 * 1) (written) invitation

title: 請帖


text: 请帖

title: 请帖


text: hussle and bussle

title: hussle and bussle


text:
hussle

Noun

 * 1) A form of carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.

title: hussle


text:
crozzle

Noun

 * 1) A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
 * 2) Hardened slag from a cementation furnace.
 * 3) A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
 * 1) Hardened slag from a cementation furnace.
 * 2) A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
 * 1) A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
 * 1) A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
 * 1) A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
 * 1) A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.

Verb

 * 1) To shrink or shrivel from exposure to heat.

title: crozzle


text:
窮苦

Adjective

 * 1) destitute; poverty-stricken

title: 窮苦


text: 穷苦

title: 穷苦


text:
求得

Verb

 * 1) to seek and obtain; to strive to obtain

title: 求得


text:
首創

Verb

 * 1) to initiate; to pioneer

title: 首創


text: 首创

title: 首创


text:
生機

Noun

 * 1) vitality
 * 2) chance to survive

title: 生機


text: 生机

title: 生机


text:
審批

Verb

 * 1) to examine and approve

title: 審批


text: 审批

title: 审批


text:
索性

Adverb

 * 1) might as well; simply; just

title: 索性


text:
條理

Noun

 * 1) proper arrangement; presentation; orderliness
 * 2) logic; reasoning

title: 條理


text:
papering over

Noun

 * 1) The superficial disguising of a defect

title: papering over


text:
chłopczyk

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) little boy
 * 1) little boy

title: chłopczyk


text: gorintō

title: gorintō


text:
ごりんとう

Noun

 * 1)  five-ringed pagoda

title: ごりんとう


text:
mabuk

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Adjective

 * 1) drunk; intoxicated
 * 2) sick because of consuming poisonous stuff

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) drunk intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages
 * 2)  act without awareness
 * 3)  very fan of something
 * 4)  very passionate
 * 1)  very passionate

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Drunk, intoxicated, inebriated.
 * 2)  Having a strong liking towards something.
 * 1)  Having a strong liking towards something.

Noun

 * 1) Motion sickness.

title: mabuk


text:
boisement

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) afforestation

title: boisement


text:
περαστικός

Etymology
From +.

Adjective

 * 1) passer-by
 * 2) passing, of passage
 * 3) ephemeral, brief
 * 4) casual
 * 1) casual

title: περαστικός


text:
bondrée

Noun

 * 1) honey buzzard (of genus Pernis or )

title: bondrée


text:
broutard

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a calf or lamb that accompanies its mother to grazing pastures

title: broutard


text: bucherons

title: bucherons


text:
aandelenuitgifte

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1)  of

title: aandelenuitgifte


text:
capriné

Noun

 * 1) caprine

title: capriné


text: aandelenuitgiften

title: aandelenuitgiften


text: aandelenuitgiftes

title: aandelenuitgiftes


text:
catherine

Noun

 * 1)  chamber pot

title: catherine


text:
Kalanchoe

Etymology
From Kalanchauhuy as recorded by, from a  source akin to 🇨🇬.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily;  - tribe

Hyponyms

 * - type species; - selected species; for other species see
 * - type species; - selected species; for other species see

title: Kalanchoe


text:
mauvis

Etymology
, ultimately related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) redwing (bird)

Etymology
From older, possibly related to , borrowed from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) thrush (bird)

title: mauvis


text:
Bispill

Etymology
From, , equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬,, ; Middle High German , ; English ,. More at.

Noun

 * 1) An example

title: Bispill


text: aangiften

title: aangiften


text: aangiftes

title: aangiftes


text: aangiftetje

title: aangiftetje


text: aangiftetjes

title: aangiftetjes


text: Bispillen

title: Bispillen


text:
pot de chambre

Noun

 * 1) chamber pot

title: pot de chambre


text: Bispööl

title: Bispööl


text:
Kuhmilch

Noun

 * 1) cow's milk

title: Kuhmilch


text:
belastingaangifte

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1) tax return, tax declaration

title: belastingaangifte


text: belastingaangiften

title: belastingaangiften


text: belastingaangiftes

title: belastingaangiftes


text:
Bispeel

Etymology
From, , equivalent to. Compare Middle Dutch, , ; Middle High German ,.

Noun

 * 1) example

title: Bispeel


text:
cathédral

Adjective

 * 1) cathedral

title: cathédral


text:
catéchétique

Etymology
, itself borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) catechetical

title: catéchétique


text: Woordenbook

title: Woordenbook


text:
caïon

Noun

 * 1)  pig, pork

title: caïon


text:
Bombax

Etymology
, from

Usage notes

 * Formerly included species now in genera, , , , , , , etc..

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily

Hyponyms

 * - type species;, , , - species; for species formerly included see

title: Bombax


text:
bautechnisch

Adjective

 * 1)  structural engineering; constructional

title: bautechnisch


text:
五輪塔

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1) five-ringed pagoda

title: 五輪塔


text:
डाउनलोड करना

Verb

 * 1) to download

title: डाउनलोड करना


text:
da gà

Etymology
🇰🇲, so called due to the feather-free-chicken-skin-like appearance.

Noun

 * nổi da gà
 * to have goosebumps
 * nổi da gà
 * to have goosebumps

title: da gà


text: Category:vi:Skin

title: Category:vi:Skin


text: ешъутырын

title: ешъутырын


text: мэшъутырэн

title: мэшъутырэн


text:
bytime

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  A period of leisure; spare time

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Spare time; leisure time.

title: bytime


text: by-time

title: by-time


text:
шъутырын

Verb

 * 1) to kick

title: шъутырын


text:
шъутырэхьын

Verb

 * 1) to kick around

title: шъутырэхьын


text: мэшъутырэхьын

title: мэшъутырэхьын


text:
apartenant

Adjective

 * 1) belonging to

title: apartenant


text:
apartenanz

Noun

 * 1)  belongings

title: apartenanz


text:
FFM

Noun

 * 1)  A sexual act between two females and one male
 * 1)  A sexual act between two females and one male

title: FFM


text: bytimes

title: bytimes


text:
tremor essencial

Noun

 * 1)  essential tremor condition causing tremors during voluntary movement

title: tremor essencial


text:
terra de leite e mel

Noun

 * 1) land of milk and honey a land of abundance

title: terra de leite e mel


text:
sâmara

Noun

 * 1)  samara winged indehiscent fruit of certain trees

title: sâmara


text:
saudação romana

Noun

 * 1) Roman salute gesture in which the arm is held out straight, with palm down and fingers touching

title: saudação romana


text:
пӏысын

Verb

 * 1)  to fuck

title: пӏысын


text:
пӏысыгъэжъ

Adjective

 * 1)  screwed, fucked
 * Ар пӏысыгъэжъ — He is fucked.

title: пӏысыгъэжъ


text:
дэгъэнэн

Verb

 * 1) to make someone stuck
 * Пчъэм сыдэбэгъанэ — You are making me stuck in the door.
 * 1)  to fuck, to have sexual intercourse with
 * Удэзгъэнэщт иджы сыкъэпгъэгуабжымэ — I gonna fuck you if you now gonna make me angry.

title: дэгъэнэн


text:
øygruppe

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a group of islands, an archipelago

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a group of islands, an archipelago

title: øygruppe


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title: Template:table:colors/hy


text:
rato-toupeira

Noun

 * 1) mole rat any of several burrowing rodents

title: rato-toupeira


text:
Citations:indeed

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Solidity, indeed, becomes the pen Of him that writeth things divine to men; But must I needs want solidness, because By metaphors I speak?
 * 2. I find that men (as high as trees) will write Dialogue-wise; yet no man doth them slight For writing so: indeed, if they abuse Truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use To that intent; but yet let truth be free To make her sallies upon thee and me, Which way it pleases God; for who knows how, Better than he that taught us first to plough, To guide our mind and pens for his design?
 * But now I am come, such a one as I am, more fit, indeed, for death, by that mountain, than thus to stand talking with my lord; but, oh, what a favour is this to me, that yet I am admitted entrance here!

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
 * To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed.
 * And now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master of the house, having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that such another creature, quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.

title: Citations:indeed


text:
Citations:other

Determiner

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now, my little book, (Though void of all these paintings that may make It with this or the other man to take) Is not without those things that do excel What do in brave but empty notions dwell.
 * Now, as Christian was walking solitarily by himself, he espied one afar off, come crossing over the field to meet him; and their hap was to meet just as they were crossing the way of each other.
 * This man, then, meeting with Christian, and having some inkling of him, — for Christian's setting forth from the City of Destruction was much noised abroad, not only in the town where he dwelt, but also it began to be the town talk in some other places, — Mr.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 * "It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's.

Adjective

title: Citations:other


text:
Citations:our

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * And thus it was: I, writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than twenty things which I set down.
 * Be not too forward, therefore, to conclude That I want solidness — that I am rude; All things solid in show not solid be; All things in parables despise not we; Lest things most hurtful lightly we receive, And things that good are, of our souls bereave.
 * Come, truth, although in swaddling clouts, I find, Informs the judgement, rectifies the mind; Pleases the understanding, makes the will Submit; the memory too it doth fill With what doth our imaginations please; Likewise it tends our troubles to appease.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house — mark me! — in life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me!"
 * It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry.
 * "There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.

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text:
Citations:out

 * 1678 — . .
 * Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast, I'll put you by yourselves, lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out The book that I already am about.
 * Yea, dark or bright, if they their silver drops Cause to descend, the earth, by yielding crops, Gives praise to both, and carpeth not at either, But treasures up the fruit they yield together; Yea, so commixes both, that in her fruit None can distinguish this from that: they suit Her well when hungry; but, if she be full, She spews out both, and makes their blessings null.
 * No, he rather stoops, And seeks to find out what by pins and loops, By calves and sheep, by heifers and by rams, By birds and herbs, and by the blood of lambs, God speaketh to him; and happy is he That finds the light and grace that in them be.

 * 1843 — . .
 * I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 * Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

verb: to reveal as LGBT

 * 2018, D'Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, Kristen Schilt, Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology, Univ of California Press (ISBN 9780520963993), page 112:
 * For trans women of color in particular, the potential dangers of being involuntarily outed as trans, including facing harassment, violence, and worse, are well documented.
 * 2020, Courtenay W. Daum, The Politics of Right Sex: Transgressive Bodies, Governmentality, and the Limits of Trans Rights, SUNY Press (ISBN 9781438478883), page 102:
 * ... accommodations for trans students, as described above, those individuals who contest restrictive bathroom policies and/or utilize designated restrooms are more likely to be outed as trans, thereby making them more vulnerable to bullying.
 * ... accommodations for trans students, as described above, those individuals who contest restrictive bathroom policies and/or utilize designated restrooms are more likely to be outed as trans, thereby making them more vulnerable to bullying.

adjective: open, public (about an other-than-LGBT identity)

 * 2009, Peter Mark Magolda, Kelsey Ebben Gross, It's All about Jesus!: Faith as an Oppositional Collegiate Subculture, Stylus Publishing, LLC. (ISBN 9781579223557)
 * “I can confirm that it isn't easy to be 'out' as a Christian.” (para. ) Christians in the United States in general and in higher education in particular are not minorities,  yet their sense of being on the margins is genuine. They view public higher ...
 * 2015, Anna Strhan, Aliens and Strangers?: The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals, Oxford University Press, USA (ISBN 9780198724469), page 99:
 * A teaching assistant in her twenties described how in 'coming out as a Christian, it's easy to lose face', which she said makes it harder to be 'out' as a Christian  among colleagues and others with whom one is in regular contact. In contrast ...

title: Citations:out


text:
Citations:outline

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.

title: Citations:outline


text:
Citations:outpouring

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm, and floated on, outpouring, with a generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on everything within its reach!

title: Citations:outpouring


text:
Citations:outset

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house.
 * Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms.

title: Citations:outset


text:
Citations:over

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then said Evangelist, pointing with his finger over a very wide field, Do you see yonder wicket-gate? [Matt. 7:13,14] The man said, No.
 * Now, I saw in my dream, that when Obstinate was gone back, Christian and Pliable went talking over the plain; and thus they began their discourse.
 * Then I stepped to him that plucked him out, and said, Sir, wherefore, since over this place is the way from the City of Destruction to yonder gate, is it that this plat is not mended, that poor travellers might go thither with more security?

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel.
 * They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine-merchant's cellar.
 * He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.

title: Citations:over


text:
Citations:owners

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!"

title: Citations:owners


text:
radiotelescópio

Noun

 * 1)  radio telescope device that detects radio waves from space

title: radiotelescópio


text:
Citations:oysters

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
 * Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.

title: Citations:oysters


text:
Citations:padlocks

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.

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text:
Citations:pageant

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Poulterers' and grocers' trades became a splendid joke: a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.

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text:
Citations:palm

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm, and floated on, outpouring, with a generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on everything within its reach!

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text:
Citations:palpable

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already — it had not been light all day — and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.

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text:
Citations:parapets

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball — better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest — laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.

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Citations:parlour

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then he took him by the hand, and led him into a very large parlour that was full of dust, because never swept; the which after he had reviewed a little while, the Interpreter called for a man to sweep.
 * The Interpreter answered, This parlour is the heart of a man that was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel; the dust is his original sin and inward corruptions, that have defiled the whole man.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour, and by one stair at a time, up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.

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text:
Citations:parlours

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * By this time it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge and the Spirit went along the streets, the brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens, parlours, and all sorts of rooms, was wonderful.

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text:
Citations:part

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * They then read again, in another part of the records of the house, where it was shewed how willing their Lord was to receive into his favour any, even any, though they in time past had offered great affronts to his person and proceedings.
 * So I turned to go away from him; but just as I turned myself to go thence, I felt him take hold of my flesh, and give me such a deadly twitch back, that I thought he had pulled part of me after himself.
 * For my part, I am of opinion, that he has, by his wicked life, caused many to stumble and fall; and will be, if God prevent not, the ruin of many more.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
 * That, and its livid colour, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face and beyond its control, rather than a part of its own expression.
 * "That is no light part of my penance," pursued the Ghost. "I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer."

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text:
Citations:particles

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.

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Citations:particular

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So when he was come in and sat down, they gave him something to drink, and consented together, that until supper was ready, some of them should have some particular discourse with Christian, for the best improvement of time; and they appointed Piety, and Prudence, and Charity to discourse with him; and thus they began:
 * And, in particular, I heard him once myself affirm that Christianity and the customs of our town of Vanity were diametrically opposite, and could not be reconciled.
 * Almost the whole town; and in particular, my Lord Turn-about, my Lord Time-server, my Lord Fair-speech, (from whose ancestors that town first took its name), also Mr.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Who were you then?" said Scrooge, raising his voice. "You're particular, for a shade." He was going to say "to a shade," but substituted this, as more appropriate.
 * The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.
 * When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which his hand relaxed; and had barely time to reel to bed, before he sank into a heavy sleep.
 * But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.
 * But however and whenever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim — shall we — or this first parting that there was among us?"

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner," said the gentleman, presenting his credentials.
 * Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley, since his last mention of his seven years' dead partner that afternoon.
 * Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire, both hands to your partner, bow and curtsey, corkscrew, thread-the-needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig "cut" — cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then Christian stepped a little aside to his fellow, Hopeful, saying, It runs in my mind that this is one By-ends of Fair-speech; and if it be he, we have as very a knave in our company as dwelleth in all these parts.
 * Besides, his desire after that benefice makes him more studious, a more zealous preacher, &c., and so makes him a better man; yea, makes him better improve his parts, which is according to the mind of God.
 * 4. I conclude, then, that a minister that changes a small for a great, should not, for so doing, be judged as covetous; but rather, since he has improved in his parts and industry thereby, be counted as one that pursues his call, and the opportunity put into his hands to do good.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * "That they were enemies to and disturbers of their trade; that they had made commotions and divisions in the town, and had won a party to their own most dangerous opinions, in contempt of the law of their prince."

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.
 * Scrooge's niece was not one of the blind-man's buff party, but was made comfortable with a large chair and a footstool, in a snug corner, where the Ghost and Scrooge were close behind her.
 * Scrooge had observed this change, but never spoke of it, until they left a children's Twelfth Night party, when, looking at the Spirit as they stood together in an open place, he noticed that its hair was grey.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then was Christian in great distress, and knew not what to do; for he wanted that which used to relieve him, and that which should have been his pass into the Celestial City.
 * He being, therefore, thus accoutred, walketh out with his friends to the gate, and there he asked the porter if he saw any pilgrims pass by.
 * Who knows, but the God that made the world may cause that Giant Despair may die? or that, at some time or other, he may forget to lock us in? or that he may, in a short time, have another of his fits before us, and may lose the use of his limbs? and if ever that should come to pass again, for my part, I am resolved to pluck up the heart of a man, and to try my utmost to get from under his hand. I was a fool that I did not try to do it before; but, however, my brother, let us be patient, and endure a while.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The prophet Jeremiah thus describes it: "A wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, a land that no man" (but a Christian) "passed through, and where no man dwelt." [Jer. 2:6]
 * Yes, and the lions too, before I came at it: but for the lions, I think they were asleep, for it was about noon; and because I had so much of the day before me, I passed by the porter, and came down the hill.
 * Thus, after divers words had passed on both sides, the men behaving themselves all the while very wisely and soberly before them, they fell to some blows among themselves, and did harm one to another.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed.
 * He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.
 * Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * They then read again, in another part of the records of the house, where it was shewed how willing their Lord was to receive into his favour any, even any, though they in time past had offered great affronts to his person and proceedings.
 * Matter! said they; we were going that way as you are going, and went as far as we durst; and indeed we were almost past coming back; for had we gone a little further, we had not been here to bring the news to thee.
 * What you will. I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial; provided that all be done to our profit.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "You may — the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will — have pain in this. A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke.
 * But when at last, he caught her; when, in spite of all her silken rustlings, and her rapid flutterings past him, he got her into a corner whence there was no escape; then his conduct was the most execrable.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Who knows, but the God that made the world may cause that Giant Despair may die? or that, at some time or other, he may forget to lock us in? or that he may, in a short time, have another of his fits before us, and may lose the use of his limbs? and if ever that should come to pass again, for my part, I am resolved to pluck up the heart of a man, and to try my utmost to get from under his hand. I was a fool that I did not try to do it before; but, however, my brother, let us be patient, and endure a while.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry.
 * The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich.
 * She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * It was builded of pearls and precious stones, also the street thereof was paved with gold; so that by reason of the natural glory of the city, and the reflection of the sunbeams upon it, Christian with desire fell sick; Hopeful also had a fit or two of the same disease.
 * Now, just as the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and, behold, the City shone like the sun; the streets also were paved with gold, and in them walked many men, with crowns on their heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps to sing praises withal.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?

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Citations:pears

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collars nearly choked him) blew the fire, until the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.
 * In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
 * Well, so I did; but yet I did not think To shew to all the world my pen and ink In such a mode; I only thought to make I knew not what; nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I; I did it my own self to gratify.
 * Solidity, indeed, becomes the pen Of him that writeth things divine to men; But must I needs want solidness, because By metaphors I speak?

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a pent-house roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The Interpreter answered, This is Christ, who continually, with the oil of his grace, maintains the work already begun in the heart: by the means of which, notwithstanding what the devil can do, the souls of his people prove gracious still. [2 Cor. 12:9] And in that thou sawest that the man stood behind the wall to maintain the fire, that is to teach thee that it is hard for the tempted to see how this work of grace is maintained in the soul.
 * No; he took me and had me where he shewed me a stately palace, and how the people were clad in gold that were in it; and how there came a venturous man and cut his way through the armed men that stood in the door to keep him out, and how he was bid to come in, and win eternal glory.
 * Then Apollyon broke out into a grievous rage, saying, I am an enemy to this Prince; I hate his person, his laws, and people; I am come out on purpose to withstand thee.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.
 * "I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned — they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
 * Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the mire that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led betwixt them both; also now he saw the hobgoblins, and satyrs, and dragons of the pit, but all afar off, (for after break of day, they came not nigh;) yet they were discovered to him, according to that which is written, "He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death." [Job 12:22]

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 * The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air; and, though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless.
 * Scrooge could not feel it himself, but this was clearly the case; for though the Ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels, were still agitated as by the hot vapour from an oven.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then said Evangelist to him, Thy sin is very great, for by it thou hast committed two evils: thou hast forsaken the way that is good, to tread in forbidden paths; yet will the man at the gate receive thee, for he has goodwill for men; only, said he, take heed that thou turn not aside again, 'lest thou perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.' [Ps. 2:12] Then did Christian address himself to go back; and Evangelist, after he had kissed him, gave him one smile, and bid him God-speed.
 * Well, at my first setting out, I had hopes of that man; but now I fear he will perish in the overthrow of the city; for it is happened to him according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire." [2 Pet. 2:22]
 * Thus, being launched again into the gulf of misery, unless a miracle of grace prevent it, they everlastingly perish in their own deceivings.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.

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Citations:petrification

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that dull petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course — and in truth it was something very like it in that house.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling over the chairs, bumping against the piano, smothering himself among the curtains, wherever she went, there went he!

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So he commanded his man to light the candle, and bid Christian follow him: so he had him into a private room, and bid his man open a door; the which when he had done, Christian saw the picture of a very grave person hang up against the wall; and this was the fashion of it.
 * The man whose picture this is, is one of a thousand; he can beget children [1 Cor. 4:15], travail in birth with children [Gal. 4:19], and nurse them himself when they are born.
 * Now, said the Interpreter, I have showed thee this picture first, because the man whose picture this is, is the only man whom the Lord of the place whither thou art going, hath authorised to be thy guide in all difficult places thou mayest meet with in the way; wherefore, take good heed to what I have shewed thee, and bear well in thy mind what thou hast seen, lest in thy journey thou meet with some that pretend to lead thee right, but their way goes down to death.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
 * There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of Cold Roast, and there was a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer.
 * Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But, if you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have thought that no one was at home to give them welcome when they got there, instead of every house expecting company, and piling up its fires half-chimney high.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly.

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Noun

 * 1)  pseudohypha a chain of blastoconidia

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Scrooge muttered, with an unusual catching in his voice, that it was a pimple; and begged the Ghost to lead him where he would.

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Citations:pinched

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.

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Citations:pipe

 * 1) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But he said, That can by no means be; you dwell, said he, in the City of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and, dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone: be content, good neighbours, and go along with me.
 * Well, neighbour Obstinate, said Pliable, I begin to come to a point; I intend to go along with this good man, and to cast in my lot with him: but, my good companion, do you know the way to this desired place?
 * There shall be no more crying, nor Sorrow: for He that is owner of the place will wipe all tears from our eyes. [Isa. 25.6-8; Rev. 7:17, 21:4]

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * When will you come to see me?" No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge.
 * It is also a fact, that Scrooge had seen it, night and morning, during his whole residence in that place; also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London, even including — which is a bold word — the corporation, aldermen, and livery.
 * "Good Heaven!" said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. "I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!"

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * All this time the chestnuts and the jug went round and round; and by-and-bye they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim, who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed.

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Citations:plates

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
 * Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness.

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Citations:platter

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter!

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now, FAITHFUL, play the man, speak for thy God: Fear not the wicked's malice; nor their rod: Speak boldly, man, the truth is on thy side: Die for it, and to life in triumph ride.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 * The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
 * She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Scrooge's niece played well upon the harp; and played among other tunes a simple little air (a mere nothing: you might learn to whistle it in two minutes), which had been familiar to the child who fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school, as he had been reminded by the Ghost of Christmas Past.
 * After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.
 * There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge; for wholly forgetting in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I saw also, that the Interpreter took him again by the hand, and led him into a pleasant place, where was builded a stately palace, beautiful to behold; at the sight of which Christian was greatly delighted.
 * So after he had received and given many wounds to those that attempted to keep him out, he cut his way through them all [Acts 14:22], and pressed forward into the palace, at which there was a pleasant voice heard from those that were within, even of those that walked upon the top of the palace, saying —
 * "Here I have seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful, things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand; Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me were, and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee."

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see."
 * "I was only going to say," said Scrooge's nephew, "that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers. I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him.
 * He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, "Good morning, sir! A merry Christmas to you!" And Scrooge said often afterwards, that of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Yes; but I am so laden with this burden that I cannot take that pleasure in them as formerly; methinks I am as if I had none. [1 Cor 7:29]
 * Then said the Interpreter to a damsel that stood by, Bring hither the water, and sprinkle the room; the which, when she had done, it was swept and cleansed with pleasure.
 * Again, as thou sawest the damsel sprinkle the room with water, upon which it was cleansed with pleasure; this is to show thee, that when the gospel comes in the sweet and precious influences thereof to the heart, then, I say, even as thou sawest the damsel lay the dust by sprinkling the floor with water, so is sin vanquished and subdued, and the soul made clean through the faith of it, and consequently fit for the King of glory to inhabit. [John 15:3; Eph. 5:26; Acts 15:9; Rom. 16:25,26; John 15:13]

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's; for there he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch.
 * He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure.

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desferricoprogen

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Citations:ploughed

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and re-crossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then I stepped to him that plucked him out, and said, Sir, wherefore, since over this place is the way from the City of Destruction to yonder gate, is it that this plat is not mended, that poor travellers might go thither with more security?
 * One of them testified that my sins were forgiven me; another stripped me of my rags, and gave me this broidered coat which you see; and the third set the mark which you see in my forehead, and gave me this sealed roll. (And with that he plucked it out of his bosom.)

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Though I never could have been so rude, no, no! I wouldn't for the wealth of all the world have crushed that braided hair, and torn it down; and for the precious little shoe, I wouldn't have plucked it off, God bless my soul! to save my life.

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 * 1)  To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Scrooge's nephew revelled in another laugh, and as it was impossible to keep the infection off; though the plump sister tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example was unanimously followed.
 * If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The pilgrims now, to gratify the flesh, Will seek its ease; but oh! how they afresh Do thereby plunge themselves new griefs into!

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!

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Citations:plunged

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!" and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose.

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Citations:pocketed

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Bob had but fifteen "Bob" a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house!

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Citations:poem

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

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 * 2015,, , 2016, The Borough Press, London; page 175.
 * Dinah wasn't sure how she felt about Ivy looking to her doomed family as a source of casual amusement, but as they were only some 433 days away from the end of the world, she didn't really think there was much point in getting shirty about it.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem: in a business point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view.

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Well, neighbour Obstinate, said Pliable, I begin to come to a point; I intend to go along with this good man, and to cast in my lot with him: but, my good companion, do you know the way to this desired place?
 * Besides, Esau could see no further than to the fulfilling of his lusts; "Behold, I am at the point to die, (said he), and what profit shall this birthright do me?" [Gen. 25:32] But Little-faith, though it was his lot to have but a little faith, was by his little faith kept from such extravagances, and made to see and prize his jewels more than to sell them, as Esau did his birthright.
 * If it had been, he might have had his hands full; for I must tell you, that though Great-grace is excellent good at his weapons, and has, and can, so long as he keeps them at sword's point, do well enough with them; yet, if they get within him, even Faint-heart, Mistrust, or the other, it shall go hard but they will throw up his heels.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
 * He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.

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Citations:poor

 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * May we but stand before impartial men, To his poor one I dare adventure ten, That they will take my meaning in these lines Far better than his lies in silver shrines.
 * Then I stepped to him that plucked him out, and said, Sir, wherefore, since over this place is the way from the City of Destruction to yonder gate, is it that this plat is not mended, that poor travellers might go thither with more security?
 * After this, Evangelist called aloud to the heavens for confirmation of what he had said: and with that there came words and fire out of the mountain under which poor Christian stood, that made the hair of his flesh stand up.
 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * "A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" said Scrooge, buttoning his great-coat to the chin. "But I suppose you must have the whole day.
 * Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!
 * At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.

 * , Book of Composition, Scholar Publishing House (ISBN 9788171721931), page 110:
 * Many go about their life without anything to cover their bodies. The poors have no education and entertainment. Their life is miserable and full of pain. The life of a poor is that of a struggle for survival.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But the porter at the lodge, whose name is Watchful, perceiving that Christian made a halt as if he would go back, cried unto him, saying, Is thy strength so small? [Mark 8:34-37] Fear not the lions, for they are chained, and are placed there for trial of faith where it is, and for discovery of those that had none.
 * Then I saw that he went on, trembling for fear of the lions, but taking good heed to the directions of the porter; he heard them roar, but they did him no harm.
 * So Watchful, the porter, rang a bell, at the sound of which came out at the door of the house, a grave and beautiful damsel, named Discretion, and asked why she was called.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!" and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose.

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 * 1) siren; steam whistle

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 * 1) steam whistle

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Citations:possession

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * He is never out of hearing; and if at any time they be put to the worst, he, if possible, comes in to help them; and of him it is said, The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon; he esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.

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Citations:postboy

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of "something" to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.

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Citations:posts

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.

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Citations:pot

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!" and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose.

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Citations:pot-bellied

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collars nearly choked him) blew the fire, until the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled.
 * Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.

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Citations:poultry

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
 * Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.

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Citations:power

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now, whereas thou sawest, that so soon as the first began to sweep, the dust did so fly about that the room by him could not be cleansed, but that thou wast almost choked therewith; this is to shew thee, that the law, instead of cleansing the heart (by its working) from sin, doth revive, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue. [Rom. 7:6; 1 Cor. 15:56; Rom. 5:20]
 * How many of them have been put to shameful deaths! and, besides, thou countest his service better than mine, whereas he never came yet from the place where he is to deliver any that served him out of their hands; but as for me, how many times, as all the world very well knows, have I delivered, either by power, or fraud, those that have faithfully served me, from him and his, though taken by them; and so I will deliver thee.
 * Now I saw in my dream, that at the end of this valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even of pilgrims that had gone this way formerly; and while I was musing what should be the reason, I espied a little before me a cave, where two giants, POPE and PAGAN, dwelt in old time; by whose power and tyranny the men whose bones, blood, and ashes, &c., lay there, were cruelly put to death.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.
 * The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.
 * He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock proclaimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * At last, however, he began to think — as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too — at last, I say, he began to think that the source and secret of this ghostly light might be in the adjoining room, from whence, on further tracing it, it seemed to shine.

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Citations:predicted

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.

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Citations:preparations

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling.
 * Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
 * Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.

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Citations:presenting

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner," said the gentleman, presenting his credentials.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Your saying that he is a pretty man, brings to my mind what I have observed in the work of the painter, whose pictures show best at a distance, but, very near, more unpleasing.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip.
 * By this time it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge and the Spirit went along the streets, the brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens, parlours, and all sorts of rooms, was wonderful.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl — you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do; and I release you.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * He neither regardeth prince nor people, law nor custom; but doth all that he can to possess all men with certain of his disloyal notions, which he in the general calls principles of faith and holiness.
 * Now, as for his complying with the temper of his people, by dissenting, to serve them, some of his principles, this argueth, (1) That he is of a self-denying, temper; (2) Of a sweet and winning deportment; and so (3) more fit for the ministerial function.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Poulterers' and grocers' trades became a splendid joke: a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.

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 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * Then proclamation was made, that they that had aught to say for their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar, should forthwith appear and give in their evidence.
 * When this Pickthank had told his tale, the Judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee?

 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.

 * 2010, K. Martial Frindéthié, Globalization and the Seduction of Africa's Ruling Class: An Argument for a New Philosophy of Development, McFarland (ISBN 9780786457915), page 126:
 * The native informant is still psychologically prisoner of the oppressor though he lives in a great mansion and drives a big shining car; he is still psychologically a colonized subject, enslaved in his inferiority complex. What is his affliction?

 * 2015, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton, Black Trillium, Open Road Media (ISBN 9781497661172):
 * She had no chance, she sensed, for either accusation or reproach. There was that here which held her emotionally prisoner, no less than her body would be had chains wrapped about her wrists at the entrance to the tower.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock proclaimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Yet was he troubled to think that men in that danger should so little esteem the kindness of him that so freely offered to help them, both by awakening of them, counselling of them, and proffering to help them off with their irons.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.

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macitentan

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  An endothelin receptor antagonist used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.

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Citations:profound

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.

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Citations:proved

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master; trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one, who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
 * The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef.
 * Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper.

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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.

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Citations:pulled

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * For, having now my method by the end, Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned It down: until it came at last to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
 * Then he pulled his roll out of his bosom, and read therein to his comfort; he also now began afresh to take a review of the coat or garment that was given him as he stood by the cross.
 * So I turned to go away from him; but just as I turned myself to go thence, I felt him take hold of my flesh, and give me such a deadly twitch back, that I thought he had pulled part of me after himself.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master; trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one, who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress.
 * Also how she had seen a countess and a lord some days before, and how the lord "was much about as tall as Peter;" at which Peter pulled up his collars so high that you couldn't have seen his head if you had been there.
 * Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.

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Citations:pulling

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * In they all came, one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling; in they all came, anyhow and everyhow.

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Citations:purpose

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * True, there are, by the direction of the Law-giver, certain good and substantial steps, placed even through the very midst of this slough; but at such time as this place doth much spew out its filth, as it doth against change of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or, if they be, men, through the dizziness of their heads, step beside, and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be there; but the ground is good when they are once got in at the gate. [1 Sam. 12:23]
 * So she ran to the door, and called out Prudence, Piety, and Charity, who, after a little more discourse with him, had him into the family; and many of them, meeting him at the threshold of the house, said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; this house was built by the Lord of the hill, on purpose to entertain such pilgrims in.
 * His forbearing at present to deliver them is on purpose to try their love, whether they will cleave to him to the end; and as for the ill end thou sayest they come to, that is most glorious in their account; for, for present deliverance, they do not much expect it, for they stay for their glory, and then they shall have it when their Prince comes in his and the glory of the angels.
 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
 * If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
 * As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room, and communicated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building.
 * If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
 * As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room, and communicated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building.

title: Citations:purpose


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тэшӏыкӏын

Verb

 * 1) to sculpture based on
 * Артистым мыжъокӏэ лӏым тешӏыкӏы — The artist is sculpturing the man using a stone.
 * 1)  to masturbate watching someone
 * Кӏалэр фылым шӏоимэ ятешӏыкӏы — The boy is masturbating on dirty films.
 * Тэщтэу ущ тэшъошӏыкӏы — How are you (plural) masturbating on that.

Synonyms

 * (Shapsug dialect)

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Citations:pushing

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * In they all came, one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling; in they all came, anyhow and everyhow.

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opinação

Noun

 * 1) opination the process of forming or expressing opinions

title: opinação


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Citations:put

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast, I'll put you by yourselves, lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out The book that I already am about.
 * Well, when I had thus put mine ends together, I shewed them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify: And some said, Let them live; some, Let them die; Some said, JOHN, print it; others said, Not so; Some said, It might do good; others said, No.
 * For, thought I, some, I see, would have it done, Though others in that channel do not run: To prove, then, who advised for the best, Thus I thought fit to put it to the test.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.
 * Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
 * And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"

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Citations:putting

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * At this, Christian was somewhat moved, and putting to all his strength, he quickly got up with Faithful, and did also overrun him; so the last was first.
 * This schoolmaster taught them the art of getting, either by violence, cozenage, flattery, lying, or by putting on the guise of religion; and these four gentlemen had attained much of the art of their master, so that they could each of them have kept such a school themselves.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * There were Cains and Abels, Pharaoh's daughters; Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending through the air on clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to sea in butter-boats, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts; and yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed up the whole.
 * "I wish," Scrooge muttered, putting his hand in his pocket, and looking about him, after drying his eyes with his cuff: "but it's too late now."
 * It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her "Dear, dear brother."

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Citations:quaint

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.

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Citations:quarter

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock.
 * Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.

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Citations:quarters

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.
 * He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters.
 * Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three quarters more, when he remembered, on a sudden, that the Ghost had warned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one.

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Citations:question

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Well, if you will, we will fall to it now; and since you left it with me to state the question, let it be this: How doth the saving grace of God discover itself when it is in the heart of man?
 * My brethren, we are, as you see, going all on pilgrimage; and, for our better diversion from things that are bad, give me leave to propound unto you this question: —
 * His desire of a greater benefice is lawful, (this cannot be contradicted), since it is set before him by Providence; so then, he may get it, if he can, making no question for conscience' sake.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Scrooge asked the question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation.
 * At every fresh question that was put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp.

 * 2014,, Un tant doç fogier, 2017, IEO Edicions/novelum - IEO, Toulouse/Périgueux, page 50.
 * « Monsur Raspienjas, setz pas sens saber qu'un murtre es estat comés questa nuech-lai, e seriam plan urós de rencontrar queu monsur per li pausar quauquas questions. Nom, pitit nom, adreça, si vos platz. »

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Citations:questions

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * This kind of discourse I did not expect; nor am I disposed to give an answer to such questions, because I count not myself bound thereto, unless you take upon you to be a catechiser, and, though you should so do, yet I may refuse to make you my judge.
 * I saw also in my dream, that when the Shepherds perceived that they were wayfaring men, they also put questions to them, to which they made answer as in other places; as, Whence came you? and, How got you into the way? and, By what means have you so persevered therein?

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was a Game called Yes and No, where Scrooge's nephew had to think of something, and the rest must find out what; he only answering to their questions yes or no, as the case was.

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oligocone

Adjective

 * 1) Having a reduced number of functioning cone cells.

title: oligocone


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Citations:quick

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Master Scrooge's trunk being by this time tied on to the top of the chaise, the children bade the schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and getting into it, drove gaily down the garden-sweep: the quick wheels dashing the hoar-frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray.

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Citations:race-horses

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * They charged into the street with the shutters — one, two, three — had 'em up in their places — four, five, six — barred 'em and pinned 'em — seven, eight, nine — and came back before you could have got to twelve, panting like race-horses.

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Citations:raise

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.
 * "Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth.
 * Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!

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postburst

Adjective

 * 1) After a burst or occurring after a burst.

title: postburst


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parasol cell

Noun

 * 1) A kind of retinal ganglion cell. Parasol cells project their axons to the magnocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus, where they synapse with magnocellular cells.

title: parasol cell


text: parasol cells

title: parasol cells


text: Exner

title: Exner


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vagotomize

Verb

 * 1)  To perform vagotomy upon.

title: vagotomize


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vagotomized

Adjective

 * 1) Modified by vagotomy

title: vagotomized


text: vagotomizes

title: vagotomizes


text: vagotomizing

title: vagotomizing


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longform

Etymology
🇰🇲

Adjective

 * 1)  Running for a relatively long time, typically more than two minutes.
 * 2)  Longer and more detailed than is normal.
 * a longform article; a longform news broadcast

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shortform

Adjective

 * 1)  Running for a relatively short time, typically no more than two minutes.
 * 2)  Relatively short and punchy, lacking detail or in-depth analysis.
 * a shortform article; a shortform news broadcast

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preburst

Adjective

 * 1) Before a burst.

title: preburst


text: choroidopathies

title: choroidopathies


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Citations:raised

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.
 * The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open.
 * And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

title: Citations:raised