short+quiet

  • 71ceremony — noun 1 formal public/religious event ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, short ▪ quiet, simple ▪ elaborate, glittering (BrE), lavish …

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  • 72patter — [ˈpætə] noun 1) [singular] a series of short quiet sounds caused by something falling onto or hitting a surface, or by someone walking or running along it 2) [singular/U] very fast continuous talk from someone who is entertaining people or trying …

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  • 73LAWSON, Henry (1867-1922) — short story writer and poet was born in a tent near Grenfell, New South Wales, on 17 June 1867. His birth is officially registered as Henry Lawson, but his name has sometimes been given as Henry Herzberg Lawson, sometimes as Henry Archibald… …

    Dictionary of Australian Biography

  • 74Okada Beisanjin — Quiet man and the laid harp Okada Beisanjin (岡田 米山人, 1744 – September 15, 1820 …

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  • 75QUESTOL — Quiet, Experimental, Short Takeoff and Landing (Aircraft or NASA program) Contributor: CASI …

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  • 76“Tree, The“ —    Short story (1,640 words); written in the first half of 1920. First published in Tryout(October 1921); rpt. WT(August 1938); first collected in BWS;corrected text in D    The “Tyrant of Syracuse” proposes a contest between the two great… …

    An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia

  • 77literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 78performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 79List of Emily Dickinson poems — This is a list of Emily Dickinson poems. There are 1,775 known poems that have been written by Dickinson. The poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even in some cases wording of the first lines may vary… …

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  • 80HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism