edda, jomvikings' saga

a discursive essay. a discursive, rambling writer/speech

Preservatives can impart colour and flavour to a product. to impart the bad news I was rather quiet as I didn't feel I had much wisdom to impart on the subject. I have information to impart and my time is limited. Basil imparts a flavour to the sauce.

5 is an odd number. I have an odd number of shoes and I don't know why. to odd globes. Your cufflinks are odd, do you know that? Odd people live in this city.

I owed him a lifelong debt. lifelong debt

trailer in an American vernacular. Wendy came out of the trailer, buttoning her blouse.

Speak your mind, boy. My uncle can't resist, he speaks his mind.

bark needed for roofing

the two actors reputedly almost came to blows"

The house reputedly had 365 windows, one for each day of the year.

I had asked everyone to submit questions in advance of the meeting

The quick-growing grass is crowding out native plants. She worries that junk food is crowding fruits and vegetables out of her children's diet

Frankie, I'm telling you, that dancing stuff is for sissies.

He scaled the ladder in a blink of an eye. We decided to scale the peak of the mountain.

They could hear the sound of the keyboard clacking down the line.

Another performance like that and this team will be the laughing stock of the league.

She's becoming more and more irascible as she grows older.

He went to the industrial tribunal to seek redress for the way his employers had discriminated against him. Affirmative action to help minorities is intended to redress wrongs.

Foreign domination had a malign influence on local politics. She describes pornography as "a malign industry". They have been maligned in the magazine. Malign spirits persuaded them to betray each other.

She made a brief foray into acting before becoming a teacher. I made a quick foray into town before lunch to get my sister a present.

We're in the lurch, we won't win. We seem to lurch from crisis to crisis. She just lurches from one bad relationship to another. The party's lurch to the left will lose it a lot of support

With no help, finishing the job in a day was well-nigh impossible.

The littoral zone covers the region between high and low tide.

She had the temerity to call me a liar.

She is intelligent, hard-working, and personable.

a pert answer/glance/smile. a pert bottom/nose

"A Squib is someone who was born into a wizarding family but hasn't got any magic powers

He was bent on quitting his job even though he was making a lot of money

An answer to this question begins with acknowledgment of the sense of guardianship of the townspeople.

The team showed/proved its mettle in the final round. The real test of her political mettle came in the May elections.

headland

However, skilful editing cannot quite conceal the notable lacunae within the book.

We expect these practices to cease forthwith.

The Secutor was a gladiator armed with a helmet, sword, and buckler. He received all the blows on his buckler and was not harmed.

In traditional rowing craft, the pivot point of the oars is generally located on the boat's gunwale.

We’ve got to lop off the lower branches of this tree. The city council lopped thousands of dollars from the budget.

without a while of hesitation, I bore out her words with my vow thereby putting my honor at stake.

When you cut something in half, you bisect it.

a fact established beyond peradventure

She succeeded by virtue of her tenacity rather than her talent. It was a perfect place to write by virtue of its remoteness.