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  • Five definitions: diaphanous, hermetic, liminal, sardonic, fabulist diaphanous: Of such fine texture as to be transparent or translucent: diaphanous tulle. hermetic: Completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air. sardonic: Scornfully or cynically mocking. liminal: The threshold of a physiological or psychological response. fabulist: A composer of fables.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Five definitions: diaphanous, hermetic, liminal, sardonic, fabulist diaphanous: Of such fine texture as to be transparent or translucent: diaphanous tulle. hermetic: Completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air. sardonic: Scornfully or cynically mocking. liminal: The threshold of a physiological or psychological response. fabulist: A composer of fables.

    Five definitions: diaphanous, hermetic, liminal, sardonic, fabulist Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Scornfully Hill rejected the demand as contrary to his religion and his duty and "the laws which we have mutually sworn to serve," and the Confederacy was not made ridiculous by a battle behind the battle line.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Scornfully Hill rejected the demand as contrary to his religion and his duty and "the laws which we have mutually sworn to serve," and the Confederacy was not made ridiculous by a battle behind the battle line.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Scornfully, he added, "Angus has a sentimental streak."

    Best Kept Secrets Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1989

  • Scornfully she pointed across to the opposite wall below us.

    The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

  • Scornfully, cruelly, she smiled when she saw my surprise-the first time I'd seen her smile.

    Flowers In The Attic Andrews, V. C. 1979

  • Scornfully Hill rejected the demand as contrary to his religion and his duty and “the laws which we have mutually sworn to serve,” and the Confederacy was not made ridiculous by a battle behind the battle line.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Scornfully Hill rejected the demand as contrary to his religion and his duty and “the laws which we have mutually sworn to serve,” and the Confederacy was not made ridiculous by a battle behind the battle line.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Scornfully Hill rejected the demand as contrary to his religion and his duty and “the laws which we have mutually sworn to serve,” and the Confederacy was not made ridiculous by a battle behind the battle line.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

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