“When she finally let the crucifix rest, she was smiling. “You’ve always said that a word can change its meaning depending on who uses it. So maybe bondmaid can mean something more than what those slips say. I’ve been a bondmaid to you since you were small, Essymay, and I’ve been glad for every day of it.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“1901 Bondmaid discovered missing following a letter from a member of the public.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“The beach was such a novel experience that most were completely unfamiliar with the health hazards—and risks to life and limb—it posed.” —Gideon Bosker and Lena Lencek,
The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth”
― Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth”
― Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
“I also really enjoyed my writing classes and excelled in them. In one of those early classes, the professor made copies of my paper to hold up as an example to the rest of the class. Whoa!”
― Full Circle: From Hollywood to Real Life and Back Again
― Full Circle: From Hollywood to Real Life and Back Again
“The man was old, too old for the war, and so he was charged with delivering its sorrow. I held the telegram and watched him walk back along the length of Observatory Street. His shoulders hunched under the weight of his satchel.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
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