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raiment

There was something netherworldly in their determined migration, something chilling in the cordiality and white raiment of the Nordic Pleasurelines shore personnel

—p.151 by Jonathan Franzen
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homily

Enid had the heretical thought that it might after all have been wiser, in her maternal homilies, to have laid less stress on marriage

—p.139 by Jonathan Franzen
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newel

planting his feet sideways to take the steps three and four at a time, grabbing the newel at each landing and reversing his trajectory with a jerk

—p.31 by Jonathan Franzen
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crepuscular

She berated him then, and for a while the crepuscular birds retreated, but outside the wind had blown the sun out, and it was getting very cold.

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—p.13 by Jonathan Franzen
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peremptory

The most excruciating thing was probably their stern, dogmatic, peremptory tone, quivering with repressed indignation

—p.36 by Michel Houellebecq
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