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Greystone had told his story, all the while managing to entirely sidestep the subject of the Guardians, a feat of verbal terpsichore that Eric could only admire.
Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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The bell and the psalm blended curiously with the song and the palm-clapping that announces negro terpsichore.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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How to peel a banana, how to hold a bowling ball, how to spell remuneration, how to pronounce terpsichore and - above all else - the existence of shift+space!
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If you don't find a fossilized one, terpsichore, would one of these suffice?
Wired Campus 2010
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If you don't find a fossilized one, terpsichore, would one of these suffice?
Wired Campus 2010
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If you don't find a fossilized one, terpsichore, would one of these suffice?
Wired Campus 2010
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To prove you're worth your salt as an international spy (thriller-movie division), all you have to do is: create a stink-bomb bazooka out of ordinary office fixtures; walk barefoot out of a locked-down CIA office where a platoon of feds has you cornered; use window-ledge terpsichore to escape from your high-rise apartment (with a backpack full of artillery, disguises and your spouse's poisonous spider); blast your manacled way out of a police car using a Taser; jump off a highway bridge onto the top of a speeding semi, then onto another truck in the next lane; wear disguises that involve changing your hair color and, at least once, your sex; and all the while, look
john commented on the word terpsichore
This would be Olivia Newton John in "Xanadu", or better yet, Rita Hayworth in "Down to Earth".
December 19, 2006
kafkaesque commented on the word terpsichore
I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!
January 14, 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word terpsichore
Pronounced with four syllables (long final e) and hard ch.
May 3, 2009
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July 24, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word terpsichore
Sorry, Girish, that's considered spam 'round these parts.
July 24, 2009
arcadia commented on the word terpsichore
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July 24, 2009