Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18: Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried. Dried...
cycle of more than two growing seasons. Coordinate terms: annual, biennial, evergreen 1917 January, Robert F[iske] Griggs, “The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes”...
See also: Fill and fíll fill on Wikipedia enPR: fĭl, IPA(key): /fɪl/, [fɪɫ] Rhymes: -ɪl Homophone: Phil From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English...
directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)". down (not generally comparable, comparative farther...
and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests...
mountaintop but there's fire in the valley there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace there's no smoke without fire throw gasoline on...
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XI, page 110: Our England for ever! Ten thouſand French, my...
hummer! 1904, Bernard Francis Moore, Judazuma, the Man of Mystery, page 11: He drinks, swears, smokes, plays cards, and when it comes to ragtime, my boy,...