victoriapl has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 4 lists, listed 115 words, written 37 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 3 words.
victoriapl has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 4 lists, listed 115 words, written 37 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 3 words.
Comments by victoriapl
victoriapl commented on the word untrespassed
"And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
July 4, 2008
victoriapl commented on the word wind-swept
"I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—"
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
July 4, 2008
victoriapl commented on the word sunward
"Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds"
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
July 4, 2008
victoriapl commented on the word sun-split
"Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds"
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
July 4, 2008
victoriapl commented on the word footless
"I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air..."
Highflight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
July 4, 2008
victoriapl commented on the word laughter-silvered
"And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings"
- High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
July 4, 2008
victoriapl commented on the list lend-me-your-name
I just listed 'phildickian' for Phil K. Dick, if you want to add it. Great list, by the way. I started one of my own before I found yours. I'm going to delete mine.
December 5, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word swordplay
the act or art of using a sword; fencing.
December 4, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word twins
One of two offspring born at the same birth.
One of two identical or similar people, animals, or things; a counterpart.
December 4, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word mademoiselle
also french for an unmarried female
December 4, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word climes
"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies"
She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron
December 4, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word sea change
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that does fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
from The Tempest by William Shakespeare
December 4, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word wordiness
"Faith hurled the top book in her stack. Wump! It was the first time she had ever appreciated Stephen King's wordiness; The Tommyknockers bounced off the passenger door, denting it nicely."
Faith from Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word vernal
"It was the end of March, an unusually warm and beautiful day in early spring; though all the days now seemed lovely and warm, bathed as they were in the vernal glow of a dying century."
The Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word kipple
"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When no one's around, kipple reproduces itself."
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word inveigle
"Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate."
X-files episode "Teliko"
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word obfuscate
"Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate."
X-files episode "Teliko"
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word gullywasher
a heavy rain; downpour; deluge.
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word gunsel
1. a young man kept as a sexual companion.
2. a hoodlum armed with a handgun
"Another thing," Spade repeated, glaring ar the boy. "Keep that gunsel away from me while you're making up your mind. I'll kill him."
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word wuthering
"But you never know what the weather will do in Yorkshire, particularly in the springtime. She was awakened in the night by the sound of rain beating with heavy drops against her window. It was pouring down in torrents and the wind was 'wuthering' round the corners and in the chimneys of the huge old house."
The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word vendetta
"It seemed to me that he expressed his regret for having passed ten years in vendetta with his good neighbor Orlandi, and he offered him the white hen which he carried as reparation."
The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas
December 3, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word misadventure
an event that turned out badly; misfortune; mishap
December 2, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word wuthering
"Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling. 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather."
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
December 2, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word orichalcum
A metallic substance, resembling brass or gold in color
December 2, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word smaragdine
green as emeralds
December 2, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar marked the limit to the known world and to pass beyond it was to sail to certain destruction over the bottomless waterfall at the edge of the world.
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word noir
black (French)
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word sanguine
the color of blood.
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word verdant
green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word ganymede
Jupiter's largest moon
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word snubnosed
describes a hand gun with a barrel less than three inches long.
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word argyle
pattern of diamonds in a diagonal checkerboard arrangement.
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word lacrimosa
part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Requiem mass
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word coulrophobia
fear of clowns
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word phildickian
in the style or manner of Philip K. Dick
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word vorpal
coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky: "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack."
December 1, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word uffish
from a line in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky "And, as in uffish thought he stood"
December 1, 2007