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Usage : In addition too to this almost Cimmerian gloom was the agrément of a penetrating rain, known perhaps to some of my readers by the gentle appellative of a Scotch mist ... @dictionaryupdates

Usage : He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman, in whose blood there runs the very spirit of persiflage and of gracious repartee. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : The trees, and the flowers, and the butterflies, the green and fragrant earth, all teeming and scaturient with new species. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : You think you are doing mighty well with them; that you are laying aside the buckramof pedantry and pretence, and getting the character of a plain, unassuming, good sort of fellow. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : The ascent to it is by an alameda or public walk, which was formerly beautifully planted, but the trees were cut down during the revolutionary contest. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : Don’t think of JOMO as a detox, but more like an integral part to a healthy, well-balanced nutrition plan for your brain. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : He was troubled too about his love, though when he allowed his mind to expatiate on the success of the great railway he would venture to hope that on that side his life might perhaps be blessed. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : Portland is making vigorous preparations for the vigesimal or twentieth anniversary celebration of the founding of the Christian Endeavor Society .... @dictionaryupdates

Usage : As Olga's rosy soul ... bombinates in the damp dark at the bright window of my room, comfortably Krug returns unto the bosom of his maker. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : Tam once more resumed his attempt to guddle a trout .... @dictionaryupdates

Usage : The Players' was so successful that Moss Empires invited Sachs to undertake a long tour of major variety theatres, resulting in The Good Old Days, a music hall show which ran on BBC Television from 1953 to 1983 with Sachs as its sesquipedalian Chairman. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : Coney Island’s white-towered Freudian fairway had been the brainchild of a real-estate entrepreneur named William H. Reynolds ... . @dictionaryupdates

Usage : You don’t need to do many focus groups to see groupthink in action. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : If de León was the author, his exercise in pseudepigraphy was among the most successful in history. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : ... a fellow who'd been sizing up Aaron's Bardolatry credentials had boasted that he himself had disproven all three leading theories about the identities of Shakespeare's Dark Lady and Fair Youth, and would soon be the one to unearth the true identities of Shakespeare's female and male paramours @dictionaryupdates

Usage : He proposed that humans had so throughly altered the fundamental processes of the planet—through agriculture, climate change, and nuclear testing, and other phenomena—that a new geological epoch had commenced: the Anthropocene, the age of humans. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : Glutamate also occurs naturally in all the foods that we associate with umami: aged hard cheeses, tomatoes, mushrooms, dried and fermented fish and fish sauces, and savory condiments like Marmite and Worcestershire sauce @dictionaryupdates

Usage : They paid a gabelle in order to wear a forbidden ornament and did their best to interfere with the enforcement of the law. @dictionaryupdates

Usage : A good conlang takes time to develop, and a conlanger who works on their own has all the time in the world @dictionaryupdates