dishevelment

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The best literature, he believes, entertains, astonishes, and strengthens, but also rebukes, warns, and sometimes terrifies.

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  • The best literature, he believes, entertains, astonishes, and strengthens, but also rebukes, warns, and sometimes terrifies. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
  • I straighten my thoughts out on the screen of my TRS-80 Model III Microcomputer, and those outrageous squiggles and arrows that used to accuse me of mental dishevelment are not there as silent witnesses to my ineptitude. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
  • In spite of his dishevelment, one would never guess she had roused him from a drunken stupor a short while ago. —  Where There's Smoke
  • She took in their flushed expressions, their dishevelment. —  A Kiss Remembered
  • Try it again, "answered Tom, watching her as she went laughing away, looking all the prettier for her dishevelment. —  An Old-Fashioned Girl
 

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