The Century
Cited as The Century. — 28 quotations
Chief-justiceship
Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes.
Coign
From some shielded nook or coign of vantage.
Colleen
Of all the colleens in the land Sweet Mollie is the daisy.
Dampen
In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
Dare
To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
Débouché
The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress.
deadlock
The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two.
Decadent
The business men of a great State allow their State to be represented in Congress by “decadents”.
Develop
The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy.
Dynamiting
Dynamiting is not the American way.
Fiesta
Some fiesta, when all the surrounding population were expected to turn out in holiday dress for merriment.
Filipino
Then there are Filipinos, -- “children of the country,” they are called, -- who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood.
Harden
The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition.
Heavily
Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration.
Heeler
The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.
Heelpath
The Cowles found convenient spiles sunk in the heelpath.
Inerrancy
The absolute inerrancy of the Bible.
Interval
The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land.
Laker
The bridge tender . . . thought the Cowies “a little mite” longer than that laker.
Lanky
The lanky Dinka, nearly seven feet in height.
Municipalize
London people are now determined to centralize and to municipalize such services.
Rez-de-chaussée
Tier above tier of neat apartments rise over the little shops which form the rez-de-chaussée.
Shaps
A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins.
Silhouette
A flock of roasting vultures silhouetted on the sky.
Size
We had to size up our fellow legislators.
Sky
Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.
Slick
The action of oil upon the water is upon the crest of the wave; the oil forming a slick upon the surface breaks the crest.
Smother
Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm.