How To Use Words In A Sentence

  • So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
  • He made comments about a couple of items, suggesting an appetizer that sounded unlikely but that, in his words,'went down a treat. FOLLY
  • Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
  • Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
  • These words (holpen a little with a metaphor) may express two differing abilities, in those that deal in business of estate. The Essays
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  • Firm words , air shower and broadband are three major key products of the firm net operator.
  • They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows.
  • I said a few colorful words in our language, making him laugh.
  • Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
  • I'll just summarize the main points of the argument in a few words if I may.
  • Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless. 
  • The present study investigated how children spell words that contain silent consonants as their final letter.
  • As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
  • Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
  • One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
  • Jeffrey's voice was rough and his words were harsh but Anthony remained calm and cool, save his eyes.
  • There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word. Hyphens.
  • Knives, swords, tridents and throwing knives were the norm.
  • I pressed the search button to see what the words meant and what language they were.
  • As precise definitions of words do not translate well from one language to another, words connoting latria and dulia vary from one language to another.
  • Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • In other words, you can look at one face and see loess topped by a paleosol and then covered in flow deposits. NYT > Home Page
  • In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.
  • In other words, he was responsible for formal receptions - known as levees - and dinners.
  • Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
  • The term "gentilhomme" is so liable to be confounded with "gentleman" that it needs explaining, for, despite the similarity of derivation, no two words can be more distinct. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
  • In other words, a person cannot be domiciled in a federation or confederacy.
  • For example, utter the words: "A house is my fire," and observe the comparative duration of time in the pronunciation of each word, the comparative stress, and the relative pitch (e.g. of _a_ and _fire_). The Principles of English Versification
  • So I expose them to the objective complement and the compellative, and then stand aghast at their behavior when they make all the mistakes that can possibly be made in using a given number of words. Reveries of a Schoolmaster
  • Some newspapers still refuse to print certain swear words.
  • Words regarding the necessity to change the souls of human beings to effect real change in the world should not be interpreted to mean that black religious leaders were adopting a quietistic approach to civil rights.
  • Words are the voice of the heart. 
  • I am afraid to lose, I fear this time, and I love it but memories. I could not forget the sweat on the pitch with the sway of the brothers, forget accompany me cry close friend, and forget the bright Star of that everynight, and those words have touched me deeply.
  • Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. The Fool Errant
  • By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged.
  • This process must proceed with dispatch, without posturing, without grandstanding, without empty words.
  • And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
  • For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry.
  • In other words, agriculture provided labour for the new factories in the towns and, eventually, food supplies to feed the new industrial working class.
  • There must be something wrong with people who can do cryptic crosswords.
  • Thanks for your kind words about the articles, but why did you feel fear and trepidation?
  • For instance, the man Peasley might have omitted the word knifed; also the explanatory words, argument boat fare, and the word mate. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley
  • But recently, he publicly crossed swords with Soi Lek, whom he described as untrustworthy and treacherous compared to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • When you hear the words, " adventure travel" , perhaps you think ofthe Venetian merchant Marco Polo, the distinguished African explorer David Livingstone, or North Pole adventurer Robert Peary.
  • But the inward thoughts of men, which appear outwardly in their words and actions, are the signs of our honouring, and these go by the name of worship; in Latin, cultus. Leviathan
  • Objective To study the event-related potential N400 character of semantic matching of sentence-ending words in childhood and adolescent schizophrenia.
  • In other words, you can adjust the zoom and camera angle to be as far away or as close up as possible, and as upside down and round about as you like.
  • Through the open doorway, he heard the voice of Aline Fulke but her words were unclear.
  • The last few words are delivered in a comic staccato.
  • Aaewin asked without thinking, clapping her hands over her mouth after the words escaped.
  • Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
  • I shrank inside and out from the fog and what it held-so alien to my flesh and spirit that to come even this close to it was befoulment beyond the finding of words. Year of the Unicorn
  • In other words, you're soon going to be paying me the equivalent of several place settings of Fiestaware. IN A STRANGE CITY
  • I've been thinking recently about onomatopoeia: the sound words we use to describe actions.
  • The words I pronounced as forewoman would change someone's life.
  • In stories the subject often comes after said, says or say when it follows the actual words spoken, unless it is a pronoun. Be quiet, I have something to say.
  • Words cannot describe the beauty of the scene.
  • Drop dead gorgeous pictures, a text that's zippy and slick, fun voices, and lots of words like "crick", "crack", and "creak". Archive 2006-04-01
  • In other words, he ekes the maximum out of his action.
  • He's apologizing for what he calls his despicable words after he was arrested for drunken driving. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006
  • Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen
  • Words have now been written to that well - known piece of music.
  • So now you know the words to our song, pretty soon you'll all be singing along.
  • In other words, to ensure good governance where all are treated equally and justly.
  • Wistfully, William Wordsworth wrote: en and everyone understood what the poet meant.
  • His brave words are merely a pose.
  • My best guess is if negotiations haven't got anywhere by the end of Eid, in other words towards the end of this week, then I think there will be a battle for Sirte, but not yet. ruled out the extradition of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi . The Guardian World News
  • A day later, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a white police officer more than 20 years ago, despite what GOP Rep. Bob Barr called the conviction's reliance on "the skimpiest of evidence," and, in the words of former FBI director William Sessions, "pervasive, persistent doubts" about Davis' guilt. Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
  • In other words, simultaneous measurements can only be mutually compatible for observables corresponding to operators that commute with each other.
  • O. E. D. And after that Dee started finding E-words for all his collections so they could be OED 's too. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
  • Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
  • ‘You must be joking,’ I wanted to say, but choked on my words as I looked at the moving conveyer and spotted my long-awaited weather-beaten backpack.
  • According to Arfaan Khan, a British Pakistani linguist, a number of Hindi words such as chuddies are currently being imported from the Indian subcontinent.
  • Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense. The Feast of St. Joseph
  • There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
  • He never said those words, including the asterisked one.
  • What's interesting about the idea of an anonymous e-mail search engine is that you could search on content keywords and probably get your mail without even remembering your account name.
  • Canadian English borrows words from other languages mainly through the ways of direct loan, half loan, sub tenancy and loan translation.
  • I spotted a cleaner sporting a plastic bib with the words Tourist Attractions emblazoned across it.
  • This stuff works in the gutters - the spaces between the panels, and between the pictures and words.
  • It had over a dozen different words written on it and all were scratched out except for the last.
  • ‘Don't ever do that again,’ he said quietly, his words gentle caresses against her ear as he bent down to reach her face.
  • Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is on the lineup, as is outgoing Pentagon undersecretary for policy Eric Edelman and proliferation official Bob Joseph (he of the Sixteen Words). We Look To The Horizon | ATTACKERMAN
  • The combining form 'Anglo', which means English, combines to make various words, including Anglo-American and Anglophile.
  • I feared the snow would bury the words beneath its drifts.
  • Start with Words and Pictures takes the unique approach of explaining a word by contrasting it with other words.
  • Let us adopt then words sanctioned by usage, and give the distinction between intelligence and instinct this more precise formula: _Intelligence, in so far as it is innate, is the knowledge of a_ form; _instinct implies the knowledge of a_ matter. Evolution créatrice. English
  • The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
  • I have not seen such a drunken shambles for ages - he was really struggling, slurring his words, the lot.
  • With words like "nite" and "lite" having achieved semi-acceptable status as at least "alternate spellings," I suppose it's only a matter of time before "u" become official. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Stop putting words in my mouth - I didn't say you looked fat in the red dress - I merely said you looked very slim in the black!
  • In other words, women often get attached before their cognitive machinery is up and running at full throttle.
  • To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
  • I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.
  • He pulled over, struggling with the words to the classic song by that skinny girl who died in a closet.
  • He hesitates, looking particularly grave, and finally brings himself to utter the shameful words.
  • So many onliners take no care in the choice of words used, or how the content of their e-mail will reflect on them.
  • Though best-known for his fantastic novel " Lanark, " Mr. Gray worked for many years as a portraitist, and provides a typically distinctive and opinionated account of his life, times and acquaintances in words and pictures. Books to Furnish a Coffee Table
  • Jem's words are cut off by the buzz of Olivia's telephone, and Olivia presses the speaker button.
  • Brown, a captivating and mysterious Midwesterner whose intimate slices of life are as heart-achingly beautiful as she is, will begrudgingly let listeners step into her secret hiding place filled with honest-to-goodness words and music about the human condition. Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad
  • She heard his words, and felt them, a breath across her temple, a deep reverberation in his chest. SCANDAL'S BRIDE
  • These are all imponderables and much of it is down to luck in running, in the words of that immortal phrase.
  • Overall, the ‘strong emotions’ seek out what cannot be put into propositions, or even words: everything that is mysterious and unpresentable.
  • (Isaiah 59: 15-16) (this is the only place where the word appalled is used for the way God feels -- in other words, the only thing which we know God is appalled by is if people are not doing justice) "Blessed are they who maintain justice .... As People of Faith . . . We Must Impeach
  • Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety-fourth, beginning with the words Travels in Arabia
  • The words, the thoughts, came fully formed into his mind through a kind of clammy telepathy. The Day of the Dissonance
  • Not in so many words, she viewed my new handset as just another exotic creation of a transnational technocracy using technology to get us to spend our obsessive consumerist, materialist dollars.
  • The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
  • More critical are analogous words that have acquired easily mistakable senses, such as eventually/eventuellement (‘possibly’), actually/actuellement (‘currently’), or to attend/attendre (‘to wait’). French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News
  • Jay snuggled back down into his goose down pillows and picked up a tennis ball to ideally throw at the ceiling, then he looked at Chris who was still fumbling with his words.
  • What are the keywords on the mood boards at the car designers these days: sexy, aggressive, practical, safe, sporty, flexible, successful, family, active, fun?
  • If you switch the words over, the sentence sounds better.
  • In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
  • With one quick glance he can tell when you're at the end of your rope but with his gentle smile and soft caring words he can always help restore your hope.
  • I know the tune, but not the words.
  • Items with few words can probably be decoded, albeit laboriously, with adequate comprehension by even the majority of poor readers.
  • We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most. Moll Flanders
  • After inactivation of the diphtheria poison, or in other words after the detoxication of the body fluids by the addition of diphtheria antitoxin, the dyscrasia is overcome; in its place appears, so to say, a eucrasia. Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture
  • All reading times were converted to words read per minute, then transformed to base 10 logarithms for the analyses because they were positively skewed.
  • In the fields outside of Darik, the pure sound of two clashing swords rang out.
  • He paused to allow his words to sink in.
  • To youth I have but words of counsel -- work, work, work. 
  • She stamped her foot for a final emphasis, but she was aware of her words all having fallen effectless, like blows dealt some detestable thing in a dream. The Coast of Bohemia
  • May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem. Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
  • A poet in retirement, 1800-7 During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth's poetic achievement.
  • Her words push me to recall a dietitian's comments when I revealed my plan to taste deep-fried pizza. Undefined
  • The song, printed below, which had its first airing on BBC Radio Swindon, is a blend of guitar and keyboard work with some uplifting words of encouragement for the boys.
  • Any words that strike you as important or meaningful, words that you feel are stressed, biased, repeated or isolated.
  • A prefix is productive when it contributes to the meaning of a word and can be added freely to other words.
  • Even her few words of Gaelic at the start of her speech at the state dinner on Wednesday evening – "A Úachtárain agus a chairde" "president and friends", immaculately pronounced – were an unexpected gesture. Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite
  • When she wasn't humming she spoke in "theatrical tongue" using many made-up words as we laughed and we purged. La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
  • The Guardian's pull-out supplement on the same day sported a black cover with just the words ‘Oh, God’ in the middle.
  • In other words, surely small variations to wording cannot make a significant difference to people's replies?
  • Helium balloons embossed with the words "great car for little money" promoted Volkswagen's newest four-seater model, Up!. Auto Makers Focus on Bright Side in Frankfurt
  • He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. James Joyce 
  • Now the three swords, now and anciently borne before the king at his coronation, were known as the sword of the clergy, the sword of the laity, and the third (curtana), which has no point, the sword of mercy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • I would strongly recommend readers not to take his words too seriously!
  • Lots of times words get perverted, too -- computer scientists who talk of "synchronous processes" have no idea what the actual definition in English of "synchronous" is -- they think it means "synchronized" -- and when they call putting millions of transistors on a tiny chip and call it Very Large Scale Integration, they're turned the phrase "large scale" on its very head. My mechanic Steve
  • No quibbling about the derivation of the word rakia, which is literally something beaten out, [122] can affect the explicit description of the Mosaic writer, contained in the words ‘the waters that are above the firmament,’ or avail to show that he was aware that the sky is but transparent space. Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
  • In our day the false currency of meaningless words has been made to circulate in quantity.
  • The ninth-place finisher in other words, the first person to lose Saturday nets a cool $1.25 million. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • ( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss
  • The work, epic in its tendencies, belongs to the category of burlesque compositions in macaronic verse (that is in a jargon, made up of Latin words mingled with Italian words, given a Latin aspect), which had already been inaugurated by Tifi Odasi in his "Macaronea", and which, in a measure, marks a continuance of the goliardic traditions of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • Consistently, Owen rhymes the last two words in the fifth and seventh lines of each stanza, which is very effective.
  • Meanwhile I will be lugging words from brain to brouillon. French Word-A-Day:
  • But most of all, he's a "supersalesman," in the words of his leading political rival. The Knight Errant
  • You might have noticed by now that the keywords Mr. McWhorter has chosen to mark "language-ness" spell out the word "idiom"—which is apt, in that idioms are the parts of language that are the most ingrown, disheveled, intricate, oral and mixed. Strange and Twisted Tongues
  • The opening vignette, ‘Lullaby for a Broken Dog’ is simple piano tinklings and a man's spoken words over the hiss and pop of a needle on an old record.
  • But I did, and managed to pull off, not unhandily, a tale called ` A Wayside Comedy’ where I worked for a certain ` economy of implication,’ and in one phrase of less than a dozen words believed I had succeeded.
  • The authors demanded excision of foreign words.
  • `As I said... Jayson's very good... "Words melted into words like some psychedelic mirage in his mind. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • The boy could easily match the right words in textbooks after listening to tapes.
  • Hence the words man, mankind, humanity have come to be treated as interchangeable synonyms.
  • As Geoff points out, the Inuit's polysynthetic language puts them in a strong position to make up descriptive words like this.
  • But sharper than all these impressions rang the words of the worldly-wise Higbee: _ "She's hunting night and day for a rich husband; she tries for them as fast as they come; she'd rather marry a sub-treasury -- she'd marry me in a minute -- she'd marry_ YOU; _but if you were broke she'd have about as much use for you .... The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
  • My mind was clear and the only words flowing were the words my younger sister had just said.
  • The lottery schemes are what is known as the ternary combination of seventy-eight numbers, being one to seventy-eight, inclusive; or in other words, 'three number' schemes. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
  • Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets: 30 DAYS TO A GOOD JOB
  • Other chants, like Agnus dei: Qui pius ac mitis, were expanded, or “troped” with additional text and music, and it was perhaps as an educational gesture that Greek, Hebrew, and Galician words were added to the ancient double-versicle “prosa” Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The words of the grapevine say that they should just admit it already.
  • They display their techniques by swishing their swords around in synchronisation.
  • A preliminary glossary of Inuktitut words relating to bowheads, whaling, and related topics has been prepared, but it is not included in the book, as it awaits verification by Inuit elders.
  • Some people just don't realize how much their words can hurt someone.
  • The submitted essays range in length from a few terse words to a screenful of close type.
  • The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered. Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
  • In the words of LaBeouf, he should have just said…..no no no no No No No NO NO NO No no. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Laboooooof admits Transformers 2 and Indy 4 sucked
  • Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened.
  • Its stirring words aroused free men everywhere to defend the government.
  • Kelly: Yeah, Jalapenos were used for the look good purpose siri: thanks for the kind words bee: They are made from the bread slices, thanks Of Crostini and Canapés
  • Short strings of words, prefabricated motifs, are here the building blocks to be arranged with respect to rhythm and rhyme, linking verbal and nonverbal themes in a composite system.
  • She won't be hyped, marketed, trendified, commodified, put in a box - and even though she probably loathes sound-bites as well, she has a way with words when describing her fierce individualism.
  • She shaped the words, unable to speak them with the knot of his noose twisting into her voicebox.
  • Helgi hath me hitherward sent to say to thee, Sváva, these words: he longeth sorely to see thee, ere the bold baron's breath have left him.
  • Illustration is often more useful than definition for showing what words mean.
  • The original version is censored, using goofy Batman inspired cartoon balloon words to block out some excessively gory details.
  • This allusion consists of two (fairly common) words embedded in a four-word phrase.
  • Some examples of words ending in -ful that have no forms in -less are awful, bashful and deceitful.
  • How words are delivered is a significant part of body language - known as paralanguage - and it is easy, with excessive concentration on words, to lose control of tone. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • It contains, among other things of merit, a lullaby, called "Sleep, Little Tulip," with a remarkably artistic and effective pedal-point on two notes (the submediant and the dominant) sustained through the entire song with a fine fidelity to the words and the lullaby spirit; a "Nocturne" in which Nevin has revealed an unsuspected voluptuousness in Mr. Aldrich 'little lyric, and has written a song of irresistible climaxes. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • Millions of words have been written about the introduction of the euro.
  • When are Orwells sheep ever going to figure out the jingoist crap, mere words, are being used to make rubes of them? Think Progress » Minnesota Attorney General Denies Pawlenty’s Request To Challenge Constitutionality Of Health Reform
  • The former world champion imparted a few words of wisdom to the young runners.
  • The phonological output lexicon stores pronunciations corresponding to all the spoken words known to the reader, also in the form of lexical entries.
  • At his words, the mocking hauteur disappears from her gaze.
  • In the interests, I imagine, of brevity, those last two words have been omitted in later editions.
  • He did not disappoint us - the spectacular display of fire and colour, reflected in the harbour, was absolutely beyond words.
  • Words could not describe the grief felt by the small but united community of Nurney.
  • Her words reechoed in my head and everything before me swallowed up in some kind of yellow flash. WHIPS, TEARS AND BLOOD:
  • Time and words can never be recalled. 
  • ‘I've been trying to say this to you for the best part of 10 years, but never quite found the words,’ he said, puzzlingly.
  • Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in their "etymological" sense, and consulting profane writers, Homer, Early Theories of Translation
  • I assure you my actions will correspond with my words.
  • A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe. The Italian
  • There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. Toba Beta 
  • His words slowly relaxed her threatening attitude.
  • Whether or not you're a logomaniac (one obsessed with words), this esoteric collection of English words should prove entertaining; it even might make you cachinnate (laugh loudly) as you turn the pages.
  • He had only been enabled to come to that conclusion, it was said, because he had imported into his reasoning process words which are to be found in the explanatory notes and not in the policy itself.
  • The term asymmetric warfare is bandied about, another few words, 'hands tied behind backs', would be more appropriate. logdon On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • In addition to the expected terms, keywords targeted to the TV ads like "shoe circus," "conquistador" and SearchViews

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