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• amoore5272 commented on the word vicinage

  Mr. Rochester to Jane:

  Yes--just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over the street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into the vicinage of your home along with twilight just as if you were a dream or a shade.

  - Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 22

  October 28, 2009

• amoore5272 commented on the word cynosure

  Then I thought of Eliza and Georgiana: I beheld one the cynosure of the ball-room, the other the inmate of a convent cell; and I dwelt on and analyzed their separate peculiarities of person and character.

  - Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 22

  October 28, 2009

• amoore5272 commented on the word sharper

  John gambles dreadfully and always loses--poor boy! He is beset by sharpers...

  - Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 21

  October 28, 2009

• amoore5272 commented on the word vinaigrette

  In the drawing room (not the kitchen or dining room), "The matrons, meantime, offered vinaigrettes and wielded fans; and again and again reiterated the expression of their concern that their warning had not been taken in time..." Jane Eyre, chapter 18

  October 28, 2009

• amoore5272 commented on the word plucked

  Expelled for failing examinations. Found in Jane Eyre Chapter 10 in reference to John Reed.

  October 21, 2009

• amoore5272 commented on the word holm

  Used in the north of England for a meadow or low ground beside a river.

  October 20, 2009

• amoore5272 commented on the word pompono

  Spelling in THE AWAKENING. Also pompano, a deep-bodied food fish.

  October 2, 2009

• amoore5272 commented on the word hogshead

  "Here is the unadulterated ale of father Adam--better than Cognac, Hollands, Jamaica, strong beer, or wine of any price; here it is, by the hogshead or the single glass, and not a cent to pay!" from "A Rill From the Town Pump" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  September 23, 2009