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eructation
1. belching or something produced by belching,
2. any violent expulsion
(Word Lover's Dictionary)
diaphanous
transparent, describing a see-through blouse, etc. (from Gr. dia, through + phanein, to show). Also: cellophane; phantasmagoria; epiphany.
(I Always Look Up the Word Egregious)
obstreperous
1: marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness
2: stubbornly resistant to control
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
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There was a time not that long ago when many drivers thought nothing of tossing empty bottles out the windows of their cars.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
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Palmerston is not a big town, nor one that can convincingly be said to be at the top of its game.
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Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.
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posted Wednesday, December 27, 2000
Man Versus Nature
Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature, but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.
—E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
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