Word

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

My favourite word in the English language is »language«. However, if you gave me a slightly larger set of words to choose from I might have more difficulty expressing a preference.

Spaces define which letters to together to make up a word.

There is a purity in words that cannot be sullied by their use.

on Mar 22nd 2001, 02:07:31, Natasha Jordan wrote the following about

word

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«

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And how much courage.

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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 – Horace (65-8 B.C.)
 – Epistles, bk. I, epistle xviii, l. 71

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

(Mark Twain)

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

The best way to discover new words is by reading a book.