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Brewer's: Reduplicated
or Ricochet Words, of intensifying force. Chit-chat, click-clack, clitter-clatter, dilly-dally, ding-dong, drip-drop, fal-lal, flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, flip-flop, fliffy-fluffy, flippity…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, Death
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Prologue The Devil Death And Peter Bell, when he had been With fresh-imported Hell-fire warmed, Grew serious—from his dress and mien 'Twas very plainly to be seen…Epidemics of the Past: Bubonic Plague
Bubonic PlagueEpidemics of the PastSmallpox: 12,000 Years of TerrorBubonic PlagueInfluenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies, Ashes … ashes, We all…Poems by Emily Dickinson (Second Series): Preface
by EmilyDickinson Life Preface The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a…Rookie of the Year
Pop's Tots Do Battle, Napster Courts the Big Guys By Kevin O'Hare WHETHER SPINNING the dials or scanning the charts, it sometimes seemed like the entire world of music had been whittled down to…Brewer's: Bow
(to rhyme with flow ). (Anglo-Saxon, boga; verb, bogan or bugan, to arch.) Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed. Have everything ready before you begin. He has a famous bow up at…Brewer's: Alliteration
DR. BETHEL OF ETON. Didactic, dry, declamatory, dull, Big, burly Bethel bellows like a bull. Eton College. CARDINAL WOLSEY. Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred, How high his Honour…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
by Robert Burns Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old ...Epistle To William SimsonSecond Epistle To J. Lapraik April 21, 1785 While new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake An' pownies…The Devil's Dictionary: Rime
by Ambrose Bierce RIGHTEOUSNESSRIMERRIME -n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly…The Devil's Dictionary: Kiss
by Ambrose Bierce KING'S EVILKLEPTOMANIACKISS -n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony…Trending
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