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Authors: Anthony Hope
quick parts
PHRASE
quick-wittedMr Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen)
quid
NOUN
a quid is something chewed or kept in the mouth, like a piece of tobaccorolling his quid
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)
quit
VERB
quit means to avenge or to make evenBut Faustus's death shall quit my infamy
(
Doctor Faustus 4.3
by Christopher Marlowe)
rags
NOUN
divisionsNor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
(
The Sun Rising
by John Donne)
raiment
NOUN
raiment means clothingthe mountain shook off turf and flower, had only heath for raiment and crag for gem
(
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë)
rain cats and dogs
PHRASE
an expression meaning rain heavily. The origin of the expression is unclearBut it'll perhaps rain cats and dogs to-morrow
(
Silas Marner
by George Eliot)
raised Cain
PHRASE
raised Cain means caused a lot of trouble. Cain is a character in the Bible who killed his brother Abeland every time he got drunk he raised Cain around town
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)
rambling
ADJ
rambling means confused and not very clearmy head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts
(
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe)
raree-show
NOUN
a raree-show is an old term for a peep-show or a fairground entertainmentA raree-show is here, with children gathered round
(
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth)
recusants
NOUN
people who resisted authorityhardy recusants
(
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth)
redounding
VERB
eddying. An eddy is a movement in water or air which goes round and round instead of flowing in one directionmists and steam-like fogs redounding everywhere
(
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth)
redundant
ADJ
here redundant means overflowing but Wordsworth also uses it to mean excessively large or too bigA tempest, a redundant energy
(
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth)