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  • introduced for oratorical effect 1832, Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra: The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. Execution;...
    30 KB (2,805 words) - 10:27, 26 October 2024
  • for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters. 2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century‎[3]...
    5 KB (436 words) - 16:31, 26 October 2024
  • Memphis Bill was known to pack a punch. 2009, Mary Fitzpatrick, Lonely Planet East Africa, Lonely Planet, page 77: If gorillas do fight, injuries can be very...
    2 KB (318 words) - 04:18, 28 September 2024
  • Houses‎[1]: You were lonely for a man I said, "Take me as I am" 'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic...
    7 KB (313 words) - 10:44, 27 September 2024
  • least, with nerves that preappoint me to continual pain and loneliness. 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC...
    997 bytes (120 words) - 06:47, 28 August 2024
  • unto themselves with a wide range of variants […] 2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century‎[1], Hachette, →ISBN: Indonesian mukbanger Kim Thai has partnered...
    2 KB (146 words) - 12:45, 27 September 2024
  • Baku Bakuvian (plural Bakuvians) An inhabitant or native of Baku. 2017, Lonely Planet, The Cities Book‎[3]: The vast majority of Bakuvians identify themselves...
    3 KB (246 words) - 04:12, 14 June 2024
  • the sandcastle. 2002, Cathy Lanigan, Travel with Children, 4th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 222: Ensure also that you’ve got adequate sun protection;...
    2 KB (159 words) - 12:19, 27 September 2024
  • gradually evaporated his hot, tortured animal sweat . 2009, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Lonely Hearts Killer, page 123: Once your world over there becomes a world without...
    1 KB (207 words) - 04:39, 19 August 2024
  • left me, Well, I found a new place to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel. (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated...
    10 KB (865 words) - 19:06, 30 September 2024
  • from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus (“empty, lonely”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-. Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High...
    15 KB (1,130 words) - 22:30, 27 September 2024
  • Queen Mother; […]; and every time the Colour passes in front of you. The effect can sometimes be like a rather well-dressed Mexican wave. 2007, Scott Hamilton...
    3 KB (367 words) - 04:27, 28 September 2024
  • heart lie at one's heart lie at someone's heart Lionheart lionheart lonely-heart lonely-hearts lose heart lose one's heart love heart nonheart one's heart...
    16 KB (2,430 words) - 11:21, 14 October 2024
  • vegetation, but little agriculture and few people. The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit. 1971 [1766], Averil M. Lysaght, Joseph Banks...
    17 KB (1,705 words) - 15:33, 2 November 2024
  • the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert […] (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To...
    19 KB (1,940 words) - 10:45, 27 September 2024
  • a very lonely experience. I would like to get some gay contacts on the outside that could give me some positive strokes. (obsolete) The effect or result...
    55 KB (6,029 words) - 07:30, 31 October 2024
  • sands are a promising source of oil. 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 14, in The Lonely Pyramid: From east and south the danger was to be expected. Not from the...
    17 KB (2,235 words) - 16:41, 17 October 2024
  • red this morning—does that mean we're in for a storm? 2013 May, China (Lonely Planet)‎[1], 13th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [2]: There are four weekly...
    50 KB (3,798 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2024
  • of asthma. 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan‎[2], 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 253: It's 25km of rolling pitch from the start...
    63 KB (6,367 words) - 09:34, 15 October 2024
  • foods with a small serve of lean protein. 2007, Verity Campbell, Turkey, Lonely Planet, page 142: Come here for a cappuccino that could hold its own on...
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