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60 wordies list
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pedalinfaith (615 words)
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Ned's Words, by gulley
poetic & exotic, by vega
I am : bright, by vega
Words that shine, by tez
n0r1's Words, by n0r1
Esoteric BS, by bioskope
Glittering, by Sabrina
jaden's Words, by jaden
azd's Words, by azd
chud's Words, by chud
rich words, by Emera
elij's Words, by elij
aebl's Words, by aebl
Found Words, by Sera
Proustian, by knitandpurl
Miscellany, pt. c, by she
Sima Yi's list, by simayi
noele's list, by noele
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I'm sure she does at sunset. Certainly the sea around her does.
Does Corsica coruscate?
"The result of which, apart from ubiquitous draughts, was sudden and intermittent bursts of sunshine, a dazzling and changeable light that made it almost impossible to see the tea-drinkers, so that when they were installed there, at tables crowded pair after pair the whole way along the narrow gully, shimmering and sparkling with every movement they made in drinking their tea or in greeting one another, it resembled a giant fish-tank or bow-net in which a fisherman has collected all his glittering catch, which, half out of water and bathed in sunlight, coruscate before one's eyes in an ever-changing iridescence."
-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 536 of the Modern Library paperback edition
what the northern lights do