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bracketyjack- January 1st, 2020
- The Vorsonnets Post
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- bracketyjack
- January 30th, 13:44
AO3 user Minutia_R posted a splendid sonnet, 'Declaiming Revolution', that demanded a proper response.
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- The verbs of windsound post
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- bracketyjack
- January 5th, 17:39
So here's a question.
If wind is blowing gently through trees (up to, say, Force 4 on the Beaufort Scale) it is specifically said to sough. The noun has other meanings, but the verb is pretty much restricted to the gentle sound of air moving through leaves and branches (it can also refer to equally gentle movement of water in a streambed, but nothing else). But there do not seem to be equally specific English verbs for the noise stronger wind makes blowing through trees, either in (say) Forces 5-8 or 9-12.
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- Five Scenes V. News from Trevor's Star, December 1913 PD
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- bracketyjack
- January 1st, 19:04
5. News from Trevor’s Star
December 1913 PD
Elizabeth found it hard to sleep these days, and God knew there was precious little comfort in any news of the war, for all that Caparelli was promising the new construction would be available soon.
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- Five Scenes IV. News from Yeltsin's Star (2), August 1907 PD
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- bracketyjack
- January 1st, 19:02
4. News from Yeltsin’s Star (2)
August 1907 PD
“The Prime Minister has commed to ask if he might see you presently, Ma’am. He’s en route and wishes to brief you.” Lady Chawleigh paused briefly. “He says it’s interesting news from Grayson, Ma’am.”
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- Five Scenes III. News from Landing, June 1906 PD
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- bracketyjack
- January 1st, 19:00
- Five Scenes II. News from Hancock Station, March 1905 PD
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- bracketyjack
- January 1st, 18:56
2. News from Hancock Station
March 1905 PD
Queen Elizabeth had always met her senior cabinet members weekly, but with the escalating clashes along the Alliance’s frontiers with Havenite space daily meetings were becoming the norm.
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- Five Scenes I. News from Yeltsin's Star (1), May 1903 PD
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- bracketyjack
- January 1st, 18:52
Five Scenes in the Life of Elizabeth III
1. News from Yeltsin’s Star (1)
May 1903 PD
“The Prime Minister has commed to ask if he might see you presently, Ma’am. He’s en route and wishes to brief you.”
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- Five Scenes in the Life of Elizabeth III - The Index Post
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- bracketyjack
- January 1st, 18:49
A reverse-angle Honorverse fic, wondering how the Queen of Manticore received five pieces of canonical news.
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- The Love and Money Post
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- bracketyjack
- December 16th, 2011
There's a new and rather interesting book out about that most despised of generic formulae, the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance.
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