While it’s often said that French and Spanish are the most romantic and beautiful languages, English also has its fair share of beautiful words. You may already know a couple, such assolitude,euphoria, orlabyrinth. If you want to expand your vocabulary with beautifully-sounding words, below ...
Mellifluous Sweet sounding. Moiety One of two equal parts. Mondegreen A slip of the ear. Murmurous Murmuring. Nemesis An unconquerable archenemy. Offing The sea between the horizon and the offshore. Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like its meaning. Opulent Lush, luxuriant. Palimpsest A manuscript...
Read the chapter on Playing Position and Use of the Right Hand inThe Art of French Horn PlayingbyPhilip FarkasandThe Dale Clevenger French Horn Method. We can even use the right hand with different positions in the bell to change the sound like an artist uses different brush strokes. One of...
Next stop was L’Épicerie des Environs, a small, organic grocery store where Anne bought pickles and apple juice and I purchased some local honey and pistou (French version of pesto). Lastly, we ran inside a local grocery store for some fresh herbs and then it was on to Anne’s hou...
Parakeets (whose name is derived fromperroquet,theFrenchword for parrot) are generally smaller and tend to breed in groups, but the words parrot and parakeet are often used interchangeably. Amazon parakeet species include the grey face of the Dusky-headed Parakeet, the striking reds of the Maroon...
The Beautiful Lady Booth Tarkington Chapter One Nothing could have been more painful to my sensitiveness than to occupy myself, confused with blushes, at the center of the whole world as a living advertisement of the least amusing ballet in Paris. To be
Until matters were settled, everyone referred to the organization as the Troop and, despite the high-sounding name finally adopted, they were known to the end of their usefulness simply as ‘The Troop’ . The officers were elected by the members, for no one in the County had had any ...
The French gave the Iroquois their name. Naming food is one thing, naming a people is another, not that the people in question seem to care today. If they never cared, so much the worse for me: I'm far too willing to shoulder the alleged humiliations of harmless peoples, as evidenced...
The first time I heard Japanese (many years ago) was in a samurai-type movie, with French subtitles. The men barked rapid orders in gruff voices, sounding like brrr …. brrr …. brrr …., while the women twittered like birds in high-pitched voices. Most of the time it was impossible...
The child is then supposed to fill in the age for 25 activities: "Holding hands; kissing; French kissing; petting; masturbation; . . . love making with persons of the same sex; . . . smoking marijuana; drinking booze; getting drunk or stoned; having intercourse; having a variety of sexu...