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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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sprouting like poisonous mushrooms

German film companies, which kept sprouting like poisonous mushrooms in those days (just before the child of light learned to talk), found cheap labor in hiring those among the Russian émigrés whose only hope and profession was their past—that is, a set of totally unreal people—to represent “real” …

—p.551 The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov THE ASSISTANT PRODUCER (546) by Vladimir Nabokov
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nacreous

On the day of the outing the weather was cold and restless, a nacreous sky skimmed overhead

—p.531 SOLUS REX (523) by Vladimir Nabokov
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ablutions

this vanilla-scented and seemingly witch-charmed water had probably served an ablutionary purpose

—p.525 SOLUS REX (523) by Vladimir Nabokov
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turned into an alpine waterfall

[...] Slowly the meadows swelled; boulders moved their round backs; a lethargic stream tumbled out of bed and, to its own surprise, turned into an alpine waterfall; trees traveled in file cloudward and many of them (the firs, for instance) enjoyed the ride; the villagers, leaning on their porch rai…

—p.524 SOLUS REX (523) by Vladimir Nabokov
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ab ovo

For the sake of somehow starting our talk, I shall temporarily accept your refusal. Let us proceed ab ovo.

—p.513 ULTIMA THULE (500) by Vladimir Nabokov
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