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| having a light, pert, trifling disposition. "He could wheel himself ...into the fine, melancholy park of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it." (D.H. Lawrence) |
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| dishonorable, ungentlemanly. "Then gradually smart society realised that it had been made ridiculous at the hands of a down-at-heel Dublin street-rat, and the revulsion came. Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish." (D.H. Lawrence) |
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| an ill-bred man. lacking in refinement or grace. "Then gradually smart society realised that it had been made ridiculous at the hands of a down-at-heel Dublin street-rat, and the revulsion came. Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish." (D.H. Lawrence) |
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| "Clifford's blind, imperious necessity to become known: known, that is, to the vast amorphous world he did not himself know, and of which he was uneasily afraid: known as a writer, a first-class modern writer |
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| "Clifford's blind, imperious necessity to become known." |
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| temporary inactivity, cessation or suspension. "His defences were al in his wits and his cunning, his very instincts of cunning, and when these were in abeyance, he seemed so double naked like a child, of unfinished, tender flesh, and somehow, struggling helplessly." (DH Lawrence) |
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| inclined to lustfulness, wanton, lewd, arousing sexual desire. "Lascivious! well, why not? I can't see I do a woman any mor eharm by sleeping with her than by dancing with her.../Be as promiscuous as the rabbits!/Why not? What's wrong with rabbits?" (D.H. Lawrence) |
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| "Having failed to make herself heard, her mettle was roused. She would not be defeated." (Lady Chatterley) |
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| "And his plain, rather worn face took on an indefinable look of derision." |
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| imperturbable poise or self-assurance; vertical position. "He had an air of aplomb, but Hilda didn't care what he had an air of." |
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| "The scent is what I object to,' he said. 'It's a little fundereal.'...And she carried the hyacinths out of the room, impressed by his higher fastidiousness." (D.H. Lawrence) |
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| clearly expressed or presented, lucid. "a peculiar talent for perspicuous gossip, clever and apparently detached." |
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| "But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche" |
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| free from concern, worry or anxiety, carefree, nonchalant. "And he was no longer young and merely bouyant. Neither was he the insouciant sort. Ever bitterness and every ugliness would hurt him." |
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| scout, explore, often with the goal of findng something or somebody. "The dog trotted out to reconnoitre" |
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| unyielding. "She quivered again at the potent inexorable entry inside her, so strange and terrible." (DH Lawrence) |
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| reluctant, restrained, reserved; disposed to be silent or not to speak freely. "And only now she became aware of the small, bud-like reticence and tenderness of the penis, and a little cry of wonder and poignancy escaped her again." (DH Lawrence) |
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| affecting or moving the emotions, keen or strong in appeal. "And only now she became aware of the small, bud-like reticence and tenderness of the penis, and a little cry of wonder and poignancy escaped her again." (DH Lawrence) |
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valetudinarian (n)
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| an invalid; excessively concerned about one's poor health or ailments. "His chair came puffing along with a sort of valetudinarian slow importance." |
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| to accuse in return. "I'm sorry, from the outside: all the complications and the ugliness and recrimination that's bound to come, sooner or later." |
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| the art of interpreting musical compositions by rhthmical, free-style bodily movement. "She slipped on her rubber shoes again and ran out with a wild little laugh, holding up her breasts to the heavy rain and spreading her arms, and running blurred in the rain with the eurythmic dance-movements she had learned so long ago in Dresden." (DH Lawrence) |
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| any sudden, violent outburst, a fit of violent action or emotion. ex. paroxysms of rage. "Hilda became more angry at every reply, angry as he rmother used to be, in a kind of paroxysm. But still she hid it." |
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| fond of or addicted to drinking. "He was not effusive, loquacious, and bibulous like Giovanni." |
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| unduly demonstrative, lacking reserve. ex. effusive greetings. "He was a real man, a little angry when Giovanni drank too much wine and rowed awkwardly, with effusive shoves of the great oar." |
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| in a state of foul decay, rotten; thoroughly corrupt, depraved, evil (putrid) "the woman has managed to get the bulk of the colliers' wives behind her, gruesome fish, and the village is putrescent with talk." |
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| various and diverse. idiom: all and sundry: everybody, collectively and individually. "These things, said indiscriminately to all and sundry, of course do not help him at all." |
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| utterly detestable, abominable, abhorrent. "the trouble is, however, the execrable Bertha Coutts has not confined herself to her own experiences and sufferings." |
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| undisturbed, free from violation or desecration. "He wanted his place inviolate, shut off from the world." |
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| "Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the mountaineers, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted in the landes of Bordeaux by bloodhounds, he becomes accustomed to most things" |
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| "Had a thuderbolt falen at the feet of Dantes, or hell opened its yawning gulf before him, he could not have been more completely transfixed with horror than at the sound of words so wholly unexpected, revealing as they did the fiendish perfidy which had consigned him to wear out his days in the dark cell of a prison, that was to himj as a living grave." (The Count of Monte Cristo) |
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| 1. "tell me truly whether you are in earnest, of if this project of visiting Paris is merely one of those chimerical and uncertain things of which we make so many in the course of our lives, but which, like a house built on the sand, is liable to be blown over by the first puff of wind?" 2. "he could not believe that that deposit, supposing it had ever existed, still existed, and though he considered the treasure as by no means chimerical, he yet believed it was no longer there." |
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| his orders were always clear, distinct, and easy of execution, his comrades obeyed him with celerity and pleasure" |
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| "the Englishman asked with an expression of curiosity which a close observer would have been astonished at discovering in his phlegmatic countenance" |
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| "During twenty years he had always seen all payments made with such exactitude, that it seemed as impossible to him that the house should stop payment; the last months' payment had been made with the most scrupulous exactitude" |
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| "we must warn your excellency that the island is contumacious. Monte Cristo, although uninhabited, yet serves occasionally as a refuge for the smugglers and pirates who come from Corsica." |
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| "It seems to me that if this individual merited the high panegyrics of our landlord, he would have conveyed his invitation through another channel." |
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| "do you think the reparation that society gives you sufficient by causing the knife of the guillotine to pass between the base of the occiput and the trapezal muscles of the murderer?" |
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| "Whether he kept a watch over himself, or whether accident did not sound the acrimonious chords that certain circumstances had already touched, he was like everybody else." |
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| the bony arch at the border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheek bone and process of the temporal bone. "by an effort of the superciliary and zyogmatic nerves, he fixed in his eye, entered, with a half official air, without smiling or speaking" |
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| The count appeared, dressed with the greatest simplicity, but the most fastidious dandy could have found nothing to cavil at in his toilette, every article of dress, hat, coat, gloves, and boots, were from the first makers." |
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| "I would not have our gratitude become indiscreet or importunate" |
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| "Had the unhappy man on whom she lavished her assiduities been previously acquainted with her, so sudden an alteration might well have excited suspicion in his mind, or at least have greatly astonished him." |
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| a short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism. "truly he is wise as the sage whose prudent apophthegm he quoted but just now" |
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| a terse saying embodying a general truth. |
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| "Most certainly but for the prompt assistance of your intrepid servant, this dear child and myself must both have perished" and "there was an expression on the face of her intrepid protector which commandedd her veneration." |
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| stroke. "that lightning-stroke which stikes but does not destroy you." |
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| a statement that conveys meaning indirectly by the use of comparison or analogy etc.; a short allegorical story designed to teach a moral lesson. "the count, who perceived that M. and Madame were begiinning to speak in parables, appeared to pay no attention to the conversation, and feigned to be busily engaged in watching Edward." |
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| incapable of being expressed or described in words, because it is so sacred. "Morrel listened to catch the last sound of her dress brushing the branches, and of her footstep on the path, then raised his eyes with an ineffable smil e of thankfulness to heaven for being permitted to be thus loved." |
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slander, defamation; a false and malicious statement designed to inure the reputation of someone.
"Things which in the evening look dark and obscure appear but too clearly in the light of morning, and sometimes the utterance of one word, or the lapse of a single day, will reveal the most cruel calumnies." |
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given to excessive moralizing, self-righteous; abounding in pithy maxims or aphorisms. "a sententious book"
"My boy, said Caderousse sententiously, "one can talk while eatin. And then, you ungrateful being, are you not pleased to see an old friend?" |
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| a four-wheeled vehicle without a top. |
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| not to be appeased or pacified. "What does the angel of light, of the angel of darkness, say to that mind at once implacable and generous?--God only knows!" |
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| deference or homage; a movement of the body expressing deferential respect or courtesy, as before a superior, a bow, curtsy or similar gesture. "This voice made everyone bow before it, resembling in its effect the wind passing over a field of corn, by its superior strength forcing every ear to yield obeisance." |
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| sleepy, drowsy; n. somnolence or somnolency. "That nervous excitement of which we speak pursued Valentine even in her sleep, or rather in that state of somnolence which succeeded her waking hours." |
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| a thin, plain cotton or linen fabric of fine close weave, usually white. "Valentine raised herself in bed,and drew over her chest, which appeared whiter than snow, the embroidered cambric, still moist with the cold dews of delirium, to which were now added those of terror." (Dumas) |
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Providence (n)
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| the foreseeing care and guidance of God; prudent management of resources, foresight. "My child, believe in my devotion to you as you believe in the goodness of Providence and the love of Maximilian." |
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| a feeling of awe, respect, reverence. "there was an expression on the face of her intrepid protector which commanded her veneration." |
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| a curse, malediction. "On the exclamation of the doctor and the cry of the father, the servants all fled with muttered imprecations;" |
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| any very wealthy, influential or powerful person. also nawab, regarding a European who has made his fortune in India. "And he had five millions in your hands alone! Why this Count of Monte Cristo must be a nabob?" |
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| incapable of showing emotion, suffering pain. "the young woman endeavoured to read her husband's inmost thoughts, while a smile passed over her countenance which froze the impassibility of Villefort." |
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| to accuse in return, bring countercharges against an accuser. "But this was not the time for recrimination, so he assumed his most agreeable manner and spoke with a gracious smile." |
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