anile

• “The other was anile, which led me to uncover what I like to call the Great Anile Conspiracy — a strange and almost exciting phenomenon that I hope to detail in an upcoming post.”

  Review: Wordnik’s Thesaurus « Motivated Grammar

• “Once again, being too specific results in being rather anile (anybody want to graph this?).”

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• “Learning how to simultaneously walk and chew gum will soon be added to the menu of anile crap that our self-regarding progressive school system 'facilitates'.”

  Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege

• “She says in an anile thready high cracking voice, "Oh, you're reading.”

  An essay about how when you're reading a Kindle in public, people don't see what book you're reading.

• “Whether they are actuated by folly and anile devotion, or whether by arrogance and malice so that they alone may be held to possess the secrets of God, I know not: this much I do know, that I find in their writings nothing which has the air of a Divine secret, but only childish lucubrations.”

  Theologico-Political Treatise

• “A friend of mine was dining at a large dinner of clergymen, and a story, as true as the sausage story above given, was told regarding me, by one of those reverend divines, in whose frock sits some anile chatter-boxes, as any man who knows this world knows.”

  Roundabout Papers

• “Not too be too anile, but I think that is from A New Pilgrims Progress, not Roughing it”

  Digesting Good Literature

• “Croaker expended a great deal of energy keeping the anile off his face, but Lillehammer had gone red.”

  The Kaisho

• “Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841

• “It may have been his voyage to India, or his monastic profession, or his study of Scripture, or something unknown that made him take up the part of a Christian Aristotle; in any case he felt himself called into the field to support the cause of St. Augustine against infidelity, and to refute the "anile fable" of the Antipodes.”

  Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.

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