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Pick up that cross.
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He was very cross.
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She was even crosser.
He was the crossest.
Why did he cross the road?
When she crosses.
Is he crossing?
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  • commands of the august sovereign are the imperial commands, or the phœnix (the incomparable) mandate. 1846, Robert Browning, “Luria”, in Bells and Pomegranates...
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  • his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells. 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”...
    4 KB (268 words) - 06:28, 26 October 2024
  • uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells. 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur...
    3 KB (263 words) - 18:36, 5 September 2024
  • with an open heel. Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days. 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 15, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes...
    11 KB (1,269 words) - 19:03, 21 October 2024
  • evar in disseasse / That in his hert with covetyce is blent. 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (please specify...
    2 KB (277 words) - 20:14, 6 September 2024
  • “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC: How are changes of this sort to be initiated? (transitive)...
    7 KB (661 words) - 10:53, 26 October 2024
  • Going thusly, unwillingly at the bell, Answering the call to recycle my time. (proscribed) thus (therefore) 1976 August 21, Calvin Keach, quotee, “Leavenworth...
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  • WOTD – 19 August 2012 From Latin clēmentia. (UK) IPA(key): /ˈklɛ.mən.si/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈklɛ.mən.si/, /ˈklɛ.mənt.si/ clemency (countable and uncountable...
    6 KB (546 words) - 03:10, 19 August 2024
  • patience and be hopeful. Remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day. 1545 August 20 (Gregorian calendar), Erasmus, “Vna hirundo non facit ver [One swallow...
    11 KB (1,087 words) - 11:41, 27 September 2024
  • an instance of this. Antonym: infelicity 1513, Henry Bradshaw, edited by Edward Hawkins, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge: Very Frutefull for...
    6 KB (728 words) - 22:26, 23 August 2024
  • Property Rights and ‘Beautiful Anarchy’”, in The Daily Bell‎[1], archived from the original on 8 August 2017: Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological...
    24 KB (2,652 words) - 23:09, 3 October 2024
  • by our Seamen the Nicobar Iſlands. 1713, Edward Young, “Book I”, in A Poem on the Last Day, Oxford: […] Edward Whistler, →OCLC, page 16: Spread all thy...
    30 KB (2,791 words) - 18:20, 11 October 2024
  • administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. 1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs‎[1], volume XXV, number...
    15 KB (995 words) - 05:26, 25 October 2024
  • Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VIII, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1896, →OCLC, page 290: [W]ith this money...
    16 KB (1,789 words) - 22:45, 23 August 2024
  • stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells. 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North...
    32 KB (2,196 words) - 18:17, 20 October 2024
  • Prison Life, page 181: Some prisoners, indeed, are always up before the bell rings — such was my practice — they prefer to grope about in the dark to...
    23 KB (3,045 words) - 05:21, 22 September 2024
  • Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please...
    20 KB (2,100 words) - 02:08, 23 October 2024
  • Society, […], →OCLC: Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse. 1727-1728, Edward Burt, Letters from a...
    47 KB (1,989 words) - 09:55, 15 October 2024
  • WOTD – 29 August 2023 From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French...
    12 KB (1,415 words) - 10:54, 26 October 2024
  • and stern-sheets. (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung. (historical) A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or...
    51 KB (5,997 words) - 12:15, 26 October 2024
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