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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some...

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

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FIDDLE, n. An instrument to ti...

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we...

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

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CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of ...

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

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A rabbit's foot may bring good...

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon a...

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

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OBLIVION, n. The state or cond...

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

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REASON, n. Propensitate of pre...

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

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WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the O...

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedl...

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

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Suddenly to change one's opini...

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

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A short story padded. A specie...

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of...

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic bevera...

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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SPOOKER, n. A writer whose ima...

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved...

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

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GENEROUS, adj. Originally this...

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

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BIRTH, n. The first and direst...

BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wi

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UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted a...

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated sa...

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....