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jaime_d has made 34 comments and citations:
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on fremitus, jaime_d said:
"sensation felt by a hand placed on the body, feeling the vibration caused by speech" more...
on looby, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch. An awkward fellow." more...
on mulct, jaime_d said:
"from the Ring and the Book." more...
on mansuetude, jaime_d said:
"from the Ring and the Book." more...
on cachinnation, jaime_d said:
"from the Ring and the Book." more...
on elucubrate, jaime_d said:
"from the Ring and the Book." more...
on dandiprat, jaime_d said:
"from the Ring and the Book. a lovely word for an urchin." more...
on guimp, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on hustings, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on mercer, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on batrachian, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on margrave, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on loobie, jaime_d said:
"an awkward, clumsy fellow. from Middlemarch" more...
on lunette, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on megrim, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on plumpers, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch, the political subplot. Short for "plumper votes," plumpers were votes for just one candidate, when the ballot asked them to choose..." more...
on laches, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch, of course, since it has to do with duty. Farebrother is the one suffering from laches. This is just a few paragraphs from the..." more...
on obloquy, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on rechercy, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on salubrity, jaime_d said:
"from Middlemarch" more...
on vulpine, jaime_d said:
"from Ruskin." more...
on latitudinarian, jaime_d said:
"from Trollope. I love this one." more...
on plethoric, jaime_d said:
"from Trollope" more...
on cacoethes, jaime_d said:
"from Trollope" more...
on termagant, jaime_d said:
"from Trollope" more...
on succedaneum, jaime_d said:
"from Trollope" more...
on defalcation, jaime_d said:
"from Trollope" more...
on velocipede, jaime_d said:
"from Louisa May Alcott's "An Old Fashioned Girl." more...
on deal bookcase, jaime_d said:
"deal here means pine or fir wood" more...
on pelerine, jaime_d said:
"a piece of 19th century women's clothing, a little cape" more...
on lucubration, jaime_d said:
"salient lucubrations"
"I read this recently in a letter from John Ruskin, a lovely put-down to art critics he found ignorant." more...
on the list 19 c., jaime_d said:
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on maugre, jaime_d said:
"I first saw this word used by RW Emerson: "Nature says--he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefts, he shall be glad to see me." more...
on alembic, jaime_d said:
"I first saw this in an RW Emerson metaphor. "Thus is Art a nature passed through the alembic of man." more...
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