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  • 81Breast pang — Breast Breast (br[e^]st), n. [OE. brest, breost, As. bre[ o]st; akin to Icel. brj[=o]st, Sw. br[ o]st, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust.] 1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 82To make a clean breast — Breast Breast (br[e^]st), n. [OE. brest, breost, As. bre[ o]st; akin to Icel. brj[=o]st, Sw. br[ o]st, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust.] 1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 83Humanae Vitae — (Latin Of Human Life ) is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and promulgated on July 25, 1968. Subtitled On the Regulation of Birth , it re affirms the traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church regarding abortion, contraception, and… …

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  • 84Naomi Wolf — Wolf at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival. Born Naomi Wolf November 12, 1962 (1962 11 12) (age 49) San Francisco …

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  • 85Tintoretto — /tin teuh ret oh/; It. /teen taw rddet taw/, n. Il /eel/, (Jacopo Robusti), 1518 94, Venetian painter. * * * orig. Jacopo Robusti born с 1518, Venice, Republic of Venice died May 31, 1594, Venice Italian painter. His father was a silk dyer… …

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  • 86no one — pronoun a) Not one person, nobody. The doctor was confined to the house, Poole said, and saw no one. On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found… …

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  • 87grief — [13] ‘Oppressiveness’ is the link between modern English grief and Latin gravis (source of English gravity). The Latin adjective meant ‘heavy, weighty’, and it formed the basis of a verb gravāre ‘weigh upon, oppress’. This passed into Old French… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 88lie heavy on — press on, weigh upon (emotionally or physically) …

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  • 89“Alchemist, The“ —    Juvenile story (3,700 words); written 1908. First published in the United Amateur(November 1916); first collected in SR; corrected text in D. Antoine, last of the Comtes de C , tells the tale of his life and ancestry. This ancient aristocratic …

    An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia

  • 90hang on — 1. Rely on, depend on, wait on, dance attendance on. 2. Continue, last, be protracted. 3. Stick, cling, keep hold, hold fast, hold on, stick to. 4. Weigh upon, drag, importune. 5. Stay, rest, reside, continue, remain. 6. Attend admiringly, regard …

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