(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) f…
Like Death
by
Guy de Maupassant
Oct. 6, 2024 - Oct. 7, 2024
(fiction, women-and-their-dilemmas)
de Maupassant, G. (1889). Like Death. NYRB Classics.
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panegyric »
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superannuated »
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matutinal »
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officious »
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palaver »
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He tried to speak and could not, for now sobs wer…
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Like all older painters, Bertin was vexed by thes…
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Today it was her very soul that was escaping, int…
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Every morning now, as soon as she had risen, she …
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Time was, like everyone else, when she had some n…