The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together. empoison noun (n.) Poison. verb (v. t.) To ...
My diary was detailed for the first three days of the trip, then abruptly stopped cold after I wrote the words: “Debbie and I conserved our body heat together last night on the bus.” At the Bahia de la Concepción, we built our own structure a slight distance away from the main grou...
And there was the one in Ladakh, where I had to clamber up a slapdash, bamboo-rung ladder to a two-story-long-drop, reeking open-air outhouse—that had a downward sloping slippery mud floor with a hole big enough to fall into—in the rain! Although the squatters that were ripe for ...
Or to put it in words you might understand: You can't understand what straight dominance feels like until you live in a gay area. For gay citizens, depriving them of the right to marry the one they love DIRECTLY threatens their equality. I'm straight, but I am smart enough to know...
Mr. Ishchenko’s concluding words: “However, we can say with absolute certainty that there is a certain window of opportunity during which any decision can be made.And a window of opportunity is closing that would allow the US to make a soft landing with a few trade-offs. The Washington...
brandenburgnoun(n.) A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. Rhyming Words According to First3Letters (bra) - Words That Begins with bra: ...
In the back, there was a grape arbor, a garage and an outhouse. To the side were a stone-and-masonry goldfish pond and a yard large enough for volley ball, badmiton, and croquet. When Sarah's Uncle Harry returned from World War I, he stayed at the cottage for an entire summer ...
I experienced my first sexual swoon, my brain lighting up with the astounding and unprecedented words, “I want to kiss him.” Not that I had never fallen in love before. Since the age of three, I had been in love with my cousin Judy’s husband Pete. I’m sure every girl or gay ...
...who comes as God's messenger to our tiny island. He wants to know if you have any words for them. I have to go to the bathroom! He has to relieve his waters. The palangi has to pee! I guess they all have to go also. I'd hate to see what happens when I take a bath!
Outhouse – The outside toilet Pack house – the barn where the mules live Parched – Very thirsty. “I am aboutto parch to death. This can also mean, “to roast” as in “parching peanuts.” Perish to death – Very, very hungry. “If I don’t eat soon, I willperish to death”...