2025-08-09

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interesting words and phrases

words

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phrases

acolytes would love to see the master in high dudgeon

caulk the roughened edges

emotionally salient memories

perpetually stooped

pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating

the attorney comported himself indecorously

it appears you are laboring under a misapprehension

well nigh abandoned

with a wild pang of woe

there was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, the earth, and every common sight. to me did seem apparelld in celestial light

that surpasseth all understanding

rue the day

a mellifluous cadence

paragraphs

at days reluctant end, his uxorious devotion contrasted starkly with her insouciance. through the vicissitudes of their intertwined journey, his unctuous charm endured even when confronted by inimical forces intent on undermining their bond. his verbosity in matters of the heart, though occasionally burdensome, attested to an unwavering commitment. the fiduciary duties he discharged with alacrity were marred only by the contumely of those who envied his success, yet he faced each day with imperturbable resolve, undeterred by the capricious vagaries of fate.

within the chiaroscuro of their shared existence, he maintained an ineffable conviction that all within their orbit would settle into tranquility, governed not by turbulent impulse but by the gravitas of mutual accord. in this hermetic constellation of affect and obligation, dissonance was not eradicated but transmuted into a quietude borne of inexorable alignment. their ethos, though baroque in expression, was underpinned by a cosmic equanimity, impervious to entropy and disdainful of disarray.

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