Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this remarkable book.
Author: Stephen Dobyns
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 023011878X
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 288
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... better to tell the stuas , when the next word begins with a dent at once , that he
must arm himself el or an h mute :with patience and perseverance , than to deu
meaning the , him , it , lude him in an undertaking which , after all his efforts and ...
Author: Robert Kemp Philp
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ISBN: OXFORD:555019421
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Dthee vy “ Another ! another word ! another to the satisfied whilst the slightest
accent of French same ! ” is remaining . But you shall judge if they read “ Mouse ,
” said the stranger , and Bonaven- not as if in their own vernaculary . And you ture
...
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ISBN: PSU:000020213497
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But this alone would be enough to remove all suspicion that our ordinary use of
this word is a mere English vulgarity , as it would show its use in both a distant
age and a ... the same test upon another word , the next of kin to " metropolis .
Author: Thomas Kerslake
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ISBN: OXFORD:590561107
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If , as it has often been if we refer to other clauses in which the word is Legislature
, the seat will remain vacant until the ... And I will here say , I argue the question ,
but only while I state the of the next session , then the Executive may make that ...
Author: United States. Congress
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ISBN: CHI:19213600
Category: United States
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The Doctor's word " ii . Du Cange Du Fresne , Glossarium Media et Infime is
found in Chaldee , where it means 1 , stubble ; Latinitatis . Quintana , Quintena ,
Decursio equestris lu- 2 , a fleece of wool . Another word with similar dicra , & c .
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ISBN: CHI:79213637
Category: Electronic journals
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The first in line mentions any word of two or three letters , and the one who sits
next makes another word of it by adding one or more letters . The third player
does the same in his turn ; and so on , until a word is made to which no one can
add ...
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ISBN: CHI:74720655
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Whenever the nasal syllable is placed at the end of a word , and followed by
another word beginning with a vowel or h mute , the nasality disappears , and the
m or n is carried with the following vowel , provided the two words are connected
...
Author: Théodore Charles comte de Laporte
Publisher:
ISBN: HARVARD:32044102851938
Category: French language
Page: 138
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As it seems, however, that we cannot find any other word but “licensed,” I think it
would be better, notwithstanding the ... The House resumed the consideration of
the following canon, proposed as canon 7, of title 3: “It is hereby declared to be ...
Author: Episcopal Church. General Convention
Publisher:
ISBN: UTEXAS:059171101333456
Category:
Page: 387
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ever . i , ei The word For our finnes . ] Heere againe another word must be
supplied , Remillion which in many places of Scripture is filenced , but yet
supposed is sometime and understood ; because in other places it is mentioned .
And that ...
Author: Johann Crell
Publisher:
ISBN: BL:A0024193857
Category: Bible
Page: 315
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Substitute o for d, and it gives you qasie, which is open to quite a different set of
descriptive details. By using s instead of o, you obtain another word, with another
set of ideas attached to it, although it is same: f, replacing s, rewards you with ...
Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015010948621
Category: English periodicals
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( 22 ) Often , as we shall presently see , a principal word is affected by two or
more co - ordinate modifications or ... We next proceed to treat of a class of
modifications which consist of a noun in connection with another word essential
to the form ...
Author: John Mulligan
Publisher:
ISBN: PRNC:32101074756469
Category: English language
Page: 574
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ing will make a duo - literal word . Sappose it ... I will write them both on the board
, I will begin thus and make the other , and cross it thus . You may ... The next
letter to be learned should be one which with at will form another word . Let it be r
.
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ISBN: HARVARD:32044102794468
Category: Education
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As Humboldt says , the other languages have an etymological and a syntactic
part , but the Chinese has only a syntactic one ; and this ... Thus position alone
points out the verb in a sentence : what precedes it next is either its own
determinative ( adverb ) , or the subject ... The difference of tone or accent by
which that word is to be pronounced , -- and every one may have four , and on an
average has ...
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
ISBN: BSB:BSB10534409
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It is , sir ; and no man could be more happy than I am to see Colonel Ethan Allen .
' “ Sir , I have come “ Not another word , my dear Colonel , until you have taken a
seat and a glass of old Madeira . ' “ But , sir , I don't think it proper “ Not another ...
Author: Willard W. Glazier
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ISBN: UOM:39015059450661
Category: Mexican War, 1846-1848
Page: 439
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I अपि चेन्नानापदस्थमुदात्तमथ
चेत्साहितेन स्वर्यते स प्रातिकतः ॥३ ॥ 3. If ,
moreover , there is an acute standing in another word , then , if there be a
circumflex resulting from a rule ...
Author: American Oriental Society
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ISBN: UCAL:B3541328
Category: Oriental philology
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A word which now more commonly applied to a fellow - feeling has the same
signification as another word . with others under affliction , and then coincides SY
- NON ' Y - MA , n . pl . Words having the same very nearly with commiseration .
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:600093379
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Author: Peter Bullions
Publisher:
ISBN: HARVARD:32044097062004
Category: English language
Page: 312
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Again : if I feel that I am about part , more or less , as may be needed , of the
proposed sum of two to stammer in any word , I try to substitute another word .
hundred thousand dollars , for the purpose of erecting and equip Often in public
reading ...
Author: John Michels
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ISBN: OSU:32435029919677
Category: Science
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... work of art , the writing over it with a fresh pen hy more than a thousand years ,
and it is quite in the old and forgotten sense of the word , another hand . ... But not
only do present sense of the word , as a work of art . done by a ruling machine .
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ISBN: UIUC:30112117956489
Category: Architecture
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