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badinage »
(noun) playful repartee; banter
p.194
trammeled »
(verb) to catch or hold in or as if in a net; enm…
p.267
divagation »
(verb) to wander or stray from a course or subjec…
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My situation in the family resembled that of my father in h…
At home, nothing was ever wasted: not a crust, not a wafer …
[...] in Little Women Jo was superior to her sisters, who w…
I had always been sorry for the grown-ups’ monotonous exist…
On the other hand I would think of myself as it were from w…
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p.367
expiate »
atone for (guilt or sin)
p.478
carillon »
(noun) a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells s…
p.485
peremptory »
(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a rig…
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Paula came down the stairs with soft, silken steps. 'You un…
Henri looked at him cheerfully. Eighteen or eighty, Dubreui…
She walked towards the bathroom. It was impossible not to w…
She uttered a long moan of satisfaction. He embraced her vi…
No question about it, I had too much to drink. After all, i…
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If the satisfaction of an old man drinking a glass of wine …