BIO
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
RECENT POSTSpatulous
PA-chuh-luhs
adjective
gaping; expanding; spreading; open or exposed
1858The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table...sweet visions, sweetest in those Sunday walks which carried them by the peaceful common, through the solemn village lying in cataleptic stillness under the shadow of the rod of Moses, to the terminus of their harmless stroll—the patulous fage, in the Professor's classic dialect—the spreading beech, in more familiar phrase…1876Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the CongoForteune is black, short, and...bunches of muscle stand out from his frame like the statues of Crotonian Milo; his legs are bandy; his hands and feet are large and patulous, and he wants only a hunch to make an admirable Quasimodo.Labels: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Richard Francis Burton
|
Permalink: patulous Entry By: CJ Cooney Smash illiteracy! Email This Word To A Friend: |
| |
| Back to the main page.... | ||
