Examples
“Asked to elaborate on what he meant by "severeness," Garnett looked down at the interview table in front of him and drew an analogy, saying the bone spurs were expected to be the size of a tape recorder but ended up being more like a microphone.”
“And mind," he added, hiding the pang under a general-like severeness, "I won't have any one in the expedition who has anything in his shoes except his feet.”
“The faint freckling across her nose, the slim and virginal severeness of her figure, with its narrow hips and arms, the curve of her long neck-all were added charms.”
“And mind,' he added, hiding the pang under a general-like severeness, 'I won't have anyone in the expedition who has anything in his shoes except his feet.”
“His close, dry way, too, of saying things savours of harshness, and differs widely from the Greek severeness of manner observable in Tacitus.”
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
“Here Laura's face assumed that gravity and severeness, which it always wore when Lady Clara's name was mentioned, and the conversation took another turn.”
“During all these mortifications and the severeness of his industry, he appears to have become a prey to extraordinary visions and imaginations.”
“The kind of the wounds and the severeness of the contusions they had had, proves that it has been a planned murdering attack against anyone who fights for their rights, for public and free education.”
“The severeness of the penalty, he argued, was out of proportion to the mildness of the offence.”
“That is just me though, and many people say we are affected in various ways and severeness.”
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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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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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bestow, moonlit, grace, twas, heart filled, noble, alas, dure, bequeath, thirsty, ive, alive and 48 more...
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