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knavish
knave n. ARCHAIC a dishonest or unscrupulous man.
“centripetal”
cen·trip·e·tal adj. [PHYSICS] moving or tending to move toward a center. The opposite of CENTRIFUGAL. <DERIVATIVES> cen·trip·e·tal·ly adv. <ORIGIN> early 18th cent.: from modern Latin centripetus, from Latin centrum (see CENTER) + -petus 'seeking' (from petere 'seek').
badinage
bad·i·nage n. humorous or witty conversation: cultured badinage about art and life. <ORIGIN> mid 17th cent.: from French, from badiner 'to joke', from badin 'fool', based on Provençal badar 'gape'.
Pigou
English economist 1877- 1950's
Maecenas
Gaius Cilnius Maecenas was a friend and political advisor to Octavian, who later reigned as Augustus. He was also an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil.
Cenotaph,
ce·no·taph n. a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere, esp. one commemorating people who died in a war. <ORIGIN> early 17th cent.: from French cénotaphe, from late Latin cenotaphium, from Greek kenos 'empty' + taphos 'tomb'.
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes,
Authoress sister of Hillary Belloc
He remembered that turn, and the curve of the secondary road over the hill to the point where suddenly, in daylight, the visitor caught his first glimpse of the house. Often, as a boy, he had met such visitors at Fiveoaks, hoping that when they reached that particular point of the drive they would not be so immersed in conversation as to miss the view.
Nice description of coming to Stoughton
kedgeree-or
ked·ger·ee n. 1 an Indian dish consisting chiefly of rice, lentils, onions, and eggs. 2 a European dish consisting chiefly of fish, rice, and hard-boiled eggs. <ORIGIN> from Hindi
kipper-kidneys-“
kip·per n. 1 a kippered fish, esp. a herring. 2 a male salmon in the spawning season. ■ v. [trans.] [usu. as adj.] (kippered) cure (a herring or
tripos
tri·pos n. [in sing.] the final honors examination for a BA degree at Cambridge University. <ORIGIN> late 16th cent.: alteration of Latin tripus 'tripod', with reference to the stool on which a designated graduate (known as the “Tripos”) sat. trip·pant adj. [usu. postpositive] [HERALDRY] (of a stag or deer)
Sealyhams;
Sea·ly·ham (in full Sea·ly·ham ter·ri·er) n. a terrier of a wire-haired, short-legged breed. <ORIGIN> late 19th cent.: from Sealyham, the name of a village in southwestern Wales, where the dog was first bred.
maisonnette
Set of rooms to live in two stories with its own entrance
according to the curious English custom by which a political majority decides the dogmatic beliefs of a religious minority.
State control of religion
Schwärmerei.
Excessive sentiment
soubrette
A minor female role in a low comedy
cynosure
A person or thing v that is center of attention
the modern parson who tries to combine Saint Francis, Lenin, and Freud into one all-embracing muddle.”
Ha ha god ine
caprices-hoisting
ca·price n. 1 a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior: her caprices had made his life impossible | a land where men were ruled by law and not by caprice. 2 [MUSIC] another term for CAPRICCIO. <ORIGIN> mid 17th cent.: from French, from Italian (see CAPRICCIO).
the silent blanket of fog was pierced by a murmur and then by a paleness ahead, the two presently merging into a vague impression of the Owl on this night of November the eleventh, 1918. A two-storied, ivy-clustered, steep-roofed building, ablaze with light from every downstairs room, and already packed with shouting celebrants of victory; a friendly pub, traditional without being self-consciously old-world. Established in the forties, when neighbouring Bockley was a small country town, it had kept its character throughout an age that had seen the vast obliterating spread of the suburbs and
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Good desciptive writing about english pubs private and public
What does it feel like-to think of the time before-before you can remember?” “Like trying to remember before I was born.”
Good thought on what loss of memory is like
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Making corrections and imprvements
She dragged him into the room with both hands and closed the door. It was a shabby little dressing-room, with one fierce light over a mirrored table littered with paints and cosmetics; playbills and an old calendar on the wall; clothes thrown across a chair; a mixture of smells-grease-paint, burnt hair, cigarettes, cheap perfume, lysol. She wore a dressing-gown over the skimpy costume in which she was soon to appear again.
Descriptive good writing
messuage.
mes·suage n. [LAW] a dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use. <ORIGIN> late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin manere 'dwell'.
“STILLAGE?”
stil·lage n. a wooden rack or pallet for holding stored goods off the floor or separating goods in transit. <ORIGIN> late 16th cent. (originally denoting a stand for casks): apparently from Dutch stellagie 'scaffold', from stellen 'to place'.
je ne sais quoi
Something , an appealible quality that cannot be de s cribedvor expressed
delenda est Carthago…
Carthage must be destryed
feel I’m more impartial about-take the League of Nations. It’s sickening now of that deadliest of modern diseases-popular approval without private faith; it will die because it demanded a crusade and we gave it a press campaign, because it’s worth our passion and we deluge it with votes of confidence and acts of indifference. It might have sprung alive out of the soul of a saint; it could only be stillborn out of a clause in a treaty. It should have been preached until we were all aflame with it; instead of which it’s been flattered and fawned upon till most of us are already bored with it.
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Hopeless of good works w.o. faith
Holborn Empire
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barrow
2 wheel cart vendrs use
