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“And if the United States should upset mighty England in the teams opening match on Saturday, I can only imagine that throughout that sceptered isle, both sex and housework will be forgotten.”
“Geoff Miller, your prognosis for this sceptered Isle is dark indeed.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Hey, Phil, I think you'll find they are called 'full stops' here in our sceptered Isle.”
“Of course, it's a combination of the fact that the book costs too much anyway and that postage to ship from my printer to your green and sceptered-isle is likewise.”
“Sadly, the book prizes are restricted to residents of the British isles, but as a compensation a further 3 correct entries from outwith these sceptered isles will receive a nifty wee promotional-type gewgaw currently to be decided upon.”
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“On the other hand, Carroll would look totally powerful with that sceptered orb she's been craving.”
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“Polls are palm readings for the political class, seances for the sceptered ...”
Why were the polls so wrong? Did people lie about voting for Obama?
“Polls are palm readings for the political class, seances for the sceptered ...”
Why were the polls so wrong? Did people lie about voting for Obama?
“(Ad Æn.ii. 632), stood the simulacre of a bearded Aphrodite with feminine body and costume, sceptered and mitred like a man.”
“We did focus groups up and down the sceptered isle, from way up in York, where you can barely understand what the hell they're saying, down to Kent, where they are slightly more intelligible.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sceptered’.
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Queue 03
condescending, impugn, bluster, indignation, goad, quandary, fawning, innuendo, rapacious, pretentious, sceptered, elegiac and 14 more...
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