Word

'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'

Spaces define which letters to together to make up a word.

“Be careful what you say—you may have to eat your words.”

I don’t think so much about eating my words as about wearing them. When someone sees me, the words come back to haunt like a miasma around me. No matter how colourful my dress, bad words turn everything grey and muddy brown.

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

There is a purity in words that cannot be sullied by their use.

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

The >>Word of the Day<< today over at dictionary.com is >>oblation<<.

>>Oblation<< comes from the past participle form of the Latin verb* >>offerre<< meaning >>to bring<<.

So, an oblation is an offering or a gift.

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* A Latin verb is traditionally cited by giving four forms, in this case: offero, offerre, obtuli, oblatum.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

on Mar 22nd 2001, 02:07:31, Natasha Jordan wrote the following about

word

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«

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And how much courage.