Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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quire

Dickens could produce a quire at a time with the printer's devil puffing at the door.

—p.307 Give the Word (306) by George Steiner
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flitches

they would consume flitches of bacon

—p.306 Give the Word (306) by George Steiner
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congeries

the brain narrows to a luminous blade pointed at a single congeries of lines and occult forces

—p.304 A Death of Kings (295) by George Steiner
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suimate

Thus there is, literally, in every mate a touch of what is called suimate--a kind of chess problem in which the solver is required to maneuver his own pieces into mate.

—p.302 A Death of Kings (295) by George Steiner
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patzer

Even the patzer, the wretched amateur who charges out with his knight pawn when the opponent's bishop decamps to R4

—p.298 A Death of Kings (295) by George Steiner
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