Adventitious
Your father is dying slowly. What do you give him? The Grateful Dead offer a box of rain, Dylan Thomas offers rage. The devil offers himself a place on the […]
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Adonis
Of Adonis, who is called Thammuz, this tale is often told. The goddess of passion Aphrodite, spying Adonis as a babe in Araby, was so entranced by his beauty that […]
Adiaphorous
My mother was devout. That there was a God and his heaven, and that God was in his heaven and all was right with the world, were precepts irrefragable. Was […]
Acromegaly
Had a cousin, Elbert, was a giant. Didn’t mind being called a giant; he was about eight feet tall, give or take an inch. He wasn’t above complaining about being […]
Abstemious
Reverend Placid was a credit to his profession. Seldom, since the establishment of his back-country Delaware parish, had there been a man of the Book so gentle, and so kind. […]
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