Adventures By Design

adjective

1. restrained and tempered, especially in consumption of food or drink

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“And also because Midwesterners are insular, industrious, abstemious, introspective people skittish about body contact, and a state fair is liberation from all that…”

Keillor, Garrison. “Top Ten State Fair Joys”, National Geographic. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2009: 72.

noun

1. an indoor plant with broad green pointed leaves

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“In the shadow of a nightmarish aspidistra a shadow plays a nocturne to itself, at half-speed.”

Mitchell, David. number9dream. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001: 112.

verb

1. To surround with or as if with a rampart.

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“The settlement is circumvallated by a stake fence, so decayed that one may gain ingress at a dozen places.”

Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas: a novel. New York: Random House, 2004: 6.

adjective

1. Amorous, lustful; feeling sexy.

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” Lorenzo de’ Medici saw her too, and in his concupiscent heart at once began to dream of possessing her.”

Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence. London: Random House, 2008: 274.

adjective

1. of or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular: a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
2. of or pertaining to the common people; popular.

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“The ’steward’ of this demotic flock, one Mr. D’Arnoq, stood beneath the modest cruciform…”

Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas: a novel. New York: Random House, 2004: 8.