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frosted petits fours
What are these?
rumble seat
He has a cruel mouth.
intonation
bootblacks
wingtips
ornate
tenements
squalor
Antietam.
carousing
cad
Blue Noses
besotted.
“America has a rich history of beliefs, a tapestry woven together by threads from different cultures. Our history is rife with the supernatural, the unexplained, the mystical.
The earliest settlers came here for religious freedom. The immigrants who followed introduced their hopes and haunts, from the vampire legend of Eastern Europe to the ‘hungry ghosts’ of China. The original Americans believed in shamans and spirits. The slaves of West Africa and the Caribbean, stripped of all they had, still carried with them their customs and beliefs. We are not only a melting pot of cultures, but also of spirits and superstitions.
Indian spirit walkers.
The Puritans
cunning...
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lectern
bereft.
sharp snip, snip, snip of string beans being broken into halves and dropped
balked
contempt
“You goofy for him?”
“And how,”
surreptitious
cavernous
pique.
conjugate
cogitates!”
imperious
misgiving
harried
railed
bucolic
she’d married, with suitors aplenty for a girl of such modest means. But it was Ethan White who’d caught her eye. He was older than she, an imperious, fussy sort, not at all romantic, but with a knack for business that would keep her comfortable,
