Word: abandoning
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...cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since, at the age of ten, I read about "an arm clothed in samite?mystic, wonderful!" Joking aside, please do not let carping critics persuade you to change or abandon your charming diction. Why not clothe commonplace details with beautiful language? Keep up the good work, and if there are any more organ tones which darkly stride, strode, stridden or have strode down cathedral aisles, be sure and tell us about...
...None could dress with more originality and abandon than she, though clothes gave her comparatively little concern, and she was forever flinging off her hat as soon as she reached a place where she could throw...
...were the backbone of Kurdish wealth. . . . All idea of voluntary emigration on their part must be excluded. The mere fact that they arrived at Irak and are still arriving daily in the utmost physical distress and completely without resources proves beyond doubt or dispute that they were compelled to abandon their villages by force and violence...
...social ravens who uttered these prophecies recalled that, upon the death of King Edward, Alexandra had been with difficulty persuaded to abandon Buckingham Palace. She clung with all the force of an indomitable will to the style and title of "Queen" (TIME, Nov. 30), and by way of "compromise" at length possessed herself of Marlborough House, where she had resided as Princess of Wales. The present Prince of Wales, gossips opined, might "like it or lump...
...abandon scouting. By scouting we mean the current practice of sending accredited agents to watch and report upon the system of play used by an opposing team. Just as signal stealing, once a common thing in football, was finally discredited by common agreement, in like manner scouting can be given the stamp of common disapproval...