MEANINGS OF THE TEN SELECTED: THREE LETTER WORDS
To sigh heavily, to deride.
Waterlogged wet-ground.
To drink moderately and regularly.
A pointed tool.
A venomous snake.
To bleat.
To seize/arrest.
A tap or light blow.
A scoundrel.
To strive for superiority.
761. The next day, the Abbe wrote word that Madame Bontemps also said to him, "You came into the world almost black," and that this was the fact. This
colour, which lasted for some time, was attributed to a picture which hung at the foot of his, mother's bed, and which she often looked at. It represented a Moor bringing to Cleopatra a basket of flowers, containing the ___ by whose bite she destroyed herself. (Madame du Hausset in The Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, v2)
762. Truly, Sir, all that I live by is with the ___; I
meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's matters, but with ___. I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork. (William Shakespeare in his play ' Julius Caesar ')
'763. Oh, quite easily! You hide yourself out there and ___ like a sheep, and I will go in the other direction and bleat like a kid. It will be all right, I assure you.' (Andrew Lang in 'The Lilac Fairy Book').
764. But during the week and about the house she wore a green gown, with apron and ___ over it, quite straight all the way
down, for she had no particular waist, and her hair, which was of a funny kind of flaxen grey, she bundled up and tied round, without any cap or anything else on her head (Charlotte M. Younge in 'Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe'.)
765. Picture to yourself a howling wilderness of grass and ___, bounded by low stony hills. Pick out one particular spot in that imaginary scene, and sketch me in it, with outstretched arms, curved back, and heels in the air, plunging headforemost into a black patch of water and mud. (Charles Dickens in his 'The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices').
766. The crowd began to hiss and ___ him for his unsportsmanlike conduct, but he sat unmoved. Another great outburst of applause was Danny's as he walked back across the ring. (Jack LOndon in his 'The Night-born'.)
767. "I won't spar with you. I know that you are alluding to Samson South, though the description is a slander. I never thought it would be
necessary to say such a thing to you, Wilfred, but you are talking like a ___." (Charles Neville Buck in his 'The Call of the Cumberlands'.)
768. But then, Ruaruga has a house--not so pretty a one, to be sure--but just as commodious as Marheyo's; and, I suppose, if he wished to ___ with his neighbour's establishment, he could do so with very little trouble (Herman Melville in his 'Typee'.)
769. ___, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is lessoned by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die. (William Shakespeare in his 'Romeo and Juliet')
770. "...If I were fool enough to believe in God, I should think that He had set Saint Michael on my tracks. Suppose that the devil and the police should let me go on as I please, so as to ___ me in the nick of time? ..." (Honore de Belzac in 'Melmoth Reconciled'.)
