Revered1 Advisor:—In accordance with your request, I send you an account of a visit, which in company with the chief and our associates, was made to the temporal dominions2 of the Mouthpat pope, Innocent First, for the rescue of Roman tits, who had been kidnapped on their return from the monthly visitation of the Coliseo schools. The object of the pope, prompting this human theft, was to effect intimidation3 by offering them as a public sacrifice, or burnt offering to the god of their worship, after the manner of the Tenockitlans, Manchees, and other civilized4 nations of Mauna Luna. The vatican, or stronghold of this Animalculan sect5, styled Christians7, is situated8 on the leads of the Giga church San Lorenzo, formerly9 occupied by our colonists10, and by them transferred to the Mouthpats as a leasehold11 to be secured in perpetuation12 for the consideration of reciprocal good will. The church of San Lorenzo, as it is now called, was remodeled by the present Giga Christian6 dynasty, from the temple of Faustina, by Antoninus, surnamed the Pious14, as a distinctive15 memorial of regard for his wife. In the process of renovation16 required for the new form of mythological17 worship, the outer walls, with their architectural ornaments18, were left unmolested above the entablature of the cornice, which upon the inner face, looking out upon 209the leads, contained the sacred dove-cotes or cells. These the Manatitlan colonists had appropriated by ejecting the unbaptized usurpers of the pagan oracles19, which in turn they relinquished20 to the Mouthpat sympathizers of the new ritualists succeeding to the interior of the edifice21. The roof was accessible to the Animalculans by a jutting22 rear X buttress23 erected25 for the support of the inner incline of the lateral26 walls. For a long time the cells were jointly27 occupied by the Manatitlans and dove descendants of the legitimate28 Giga divinity of the church, who found themselves controlled in flight by a mysterious power adverse29 to their natural inclinations30 and gregarious31 flock associations. These could have been made excellent substitutes for falcons32, but like all of the animal species that congregate34 in flocks and herds35, they were subject to unclean parasites37, rendering38 them obnoxious39 to purity, which caused their ejection by a process as mysterious to their comprehension, as that which had previously40 controlled their flight. Ten months previous to our arrival the Giga pope had announced a tourney, or ‘passage-at-arms,’ upon a scale of unprecedented41 magnificence, for the advancement43 of a crusade against a race of Moslems, who exacted tribute from Christian pilgrims on their way to the holy sepulchre of their creed44. The chief honor to be awarded the victor, was the command of the forces levied45 for the holy war. But each of the contestants46 was obliged to offer for the acceptance of the king herald47, irrefragable proof of his blood nobility, and faith in the immaculate conception, pope’s infallibility, and Catholic efficacy of saving grace. We arrived in Rome four days previous to the one designated for the grand ceremonial opening of the Animalculan court of valor48, which, as a special distinction, was to be honored with the pope’s presence and arbitration49. As the descendants of the Mouthpats have not improved in the industrial habits of self-devisement in 210the economy of time for useful purposes, we were able to secure our position on the roof balance of the portico50 without being observed. Directly opposite is the vatican, or oracular palace of the Pope Innocent. This is one of the larger dove-cotes which had been finished in silicoth by the Manatitlan colonists as an anthemeque, or place of public assemblage, and is now occupied by his “holiness” as the dove successor divinity of the roof. An hour or more after our arrival, the familiars with their working aids commenced the labors51 of preparation, and from the character of their employments it is evident that there will be no cooing notes of sympathy expended52 in behalf of suffering victims.
In the northern gutter53 of the leads the lists are erected. The galleries rise in backward ascent54 from the arena55. The terraced gradations are adapted to rank founded upon material possessions; the lowest are intended for the nobility, or landed proprietors56; the next grade is allotted57 to the rich in gold and silver, or materials in trade, these are styled merchant commoners; the highest or galley58, the tribune informs me, is destined59 for the gods, as the rabble60 are facetiously61 called. If the terms of expression interest you, their generic62 source can be traced in the Chinese and Babylonish manuscripts of Animalculans deposited by our old travelers in the archives of Manicul?; from them you will be able to judge of the progressive attainments64 of the Romans. Our position will enable us to see and hear all that passes.
The canopy65 of the ladies gallery is of richly woven material, contributed by a kabulistanee convert to the papal creed; as you will not find an equivalent for the word “lady” and its co-appellative “gentleman” in any of our indigenous66 writings, I will give you the Coliseo tribune’s version. “A lady in Giga acceptation, is a woman who employs, not only her own, but the time of her servants in the adornment67 of her body 211with cumbersome68 material, greatly in excess of her requirements for comfort and comeliness69; in addition she does not hesitate to apply pigments70 to her face. These aids are only limited by the metallic71 means of supply; and, as your judgment72 will decide, they detract not alone from personal purity, but render the persons of the Giga females, in fact, repulsive73. Still auramentation, with the confirmation74 of the senses in support of our labors, has proved utterly75 powerless for the successful stay of the fantastic follies76 that follow in train from the gratification of woman’s envious77 rivalry78. The term chevalier, or gentleman, is still more vague in acceptation, and application with the Gigas. Like virtue79, conscience, morality, and saving grace, the meaning depends upon arbitrary intonations81 of the voice in application, without true intrinsic value for the expression of means or substance realization82. If you, or at least a tit, should ascend83 to the tier that will be occupied by the gods, and suddenly accost84 one of the meanest and most blasphemous85 of the noisy rabble, with the words, “You are no chevalier, or gentleman,” you would be saluted87 in return with a blow or volley of vile88 epithets89 too horrible for exampled utterance90.”
He was about to give farther proofs of the illusive91 beguilements of Giga usage in word conversation, but was interrupted by the blasts of sackbuts, and rumble93 of kettle-drums, from the tents of the challengers, which were partially94 concealed96 by a flowery bosque, which had its source from soil and seeds deposited by the doves. These signals quickened the movements of some blackamoors who were decorating the canopied97 galleries set apart for the ladies, the pope and his apostolic cardinals99. Soon a living stream of Animalculans began to deploy100 in descent from the buttress turrets101 of the parapets, and when within hail commenced a series of pantomimic imitations of the blacks’ deformities, accompanied with gibing102 words, 212as if in cruel preparation for the scenes of the day. Notwithstanding the serious nature of our mission, enhanced with the fear of after self-censure, we could not withhold103 our instinctive104 sympathy when the Ethiopians discomfited105 their democratic Mouthpat assailants, who showed themselves in every respect inferior to their swarthy opponents. The tilting106 touches of the blackamoors’ tongues, often caused the Mouthpats to wince107 and brandish108 their thorn sticks with the well known hereditary109 twirl, as if they desired to relieve the smart with customary material arguments. The arrival of the higher orders of Animalculan life, mounted on gayly caparisoned blatidean roaches, beetles111, and ants, created a diversion with less freedom in expression, yet the democratic tendency of crowds to turbulence112 was still apparent, for the knights113 in their turn became subject to the natural flow of depreciation115, but in tones subdued116 in measured prominence117 to a comparison within and without the reach of the subject’s lance. Finally the ladies were passed in review with rabberly freedom, but ever mindful of the length of the knight114 attendants’ spears. And lastly, after the beauty, dress, and palfrey management of the ants by the ladies, had been freely discussed, the squires119 and grooms120 in livery, received the dredged overplus of scurrilous121 scoffs122 and taunts123. When the flourish of trumpets124 and beadle cries reminded them of the more important calls of selfishness for the rival displacement125 of early comers, we had the disagreeable opportunity of witnessing a scene of uproar126 that baffles description. During the struggle for places the bailiffs’ staffs were used with a freedom that denoted the lowest degree of servile subjection on the part of the herd36.
While forced to listen to the vile language of the “plebs,” we were constrained127 to hold in the balance of thought the questionable128 advantage of speech for the advancement of purity and goodness, for as yet, 213an affectionate word, or one of sympathy had not been spoken within my hearing. The Coliseo tribune, who acted as my mentor130, informed me that the Giga children of Rome lisped oaths with the first impressions of speech, and with the adventure of sentences used them for anathematizing imprecations in demands for selfish gratification. The pursuivants’ calls, “Aller laisser!” Gallic Latin, of imperative131 command for space, again attracted our attention to the lists, and from the commotion132, it was easy to perceive that the curiosity of the vast assemblage was on the tiptoe of expectation. The prolonged flourish of trumpets, with the clashing rattle133 and rumble of cymbals134 and kettle-drums, prepared us for the heralded135 announcement of the approach of the accredited136 knights who were to lead as challengers and challenged in the jousts138 for the awards of honor. While passing in review before the ladies’ and popes’ pavilions, we had an excellent opportunity for comparing the relative intelligence of those representing the different nationalities and septs.
The first group were Austro-Germans; these were large in size and heavy in feature and form, with a pervading140 vis inertia141 in their sluggish142 movements. But to my surprise, the tribune informed me that in ritualistic gymnastry, spear, and sword exercise, they were esteemed143 the leading nation, although rarely successful in their encounters, as they were too slow and methodical in delivering their blows, and as a general result, they were unroached while deciding upon their point of attack. Calling my attention to their movements, I could not fail to observe the sluggish halo that seemed to invest both riders and cockroach144 steeds; the latter, he said, grew to an enormous size in Germany, as in omnivorous145 habits they assimilated with their national contemporaries of the human species, whose intelligence was an instinctive reflection from stomach distention to the brain. Notwithstanding 214the swinish cast of their eyes, and sodden146 dullness of facial expression, there was out-shadowed a nucleus147 reflection, through the gross embargo148 of fungous flesh, that bespoke149 with its oppressed rays the still existence of the animus150 of goodness; but it was so faintly luminous151 that it failed to make its source self-apparent. From the remarks of the tribune, it appeared that the composite peculiarities152 of the German septs had been derived153 from a dietetic source, dependent upon the digestive energy of the stomach, and powers of distension154 for the disposal of sectional ingesta, selected for the expression of divisional patriotism155. The mental effect produced was graduated from the wrangling156 source of irritation157, to the philosophic158 effect of over-distension, conjoined with an owlish expression of vacuity159 in the region of the eyes. Although in outward expression ritualistically Christian, their mouths and stomachs were infidel in observance on fast-days, strenuously160 advocating the future resurrection of the body in the stomach. The females belonging to the family of the Count Palatine Von Lushmywitzs, possessed162 the elements of physical beauty, but there was a subdued expression of the eyes, with a pervading depression of deportment, exhibiting the guardian163 effects of discipline administered in their male sponsors’ philosophic moods; also in combination, a settled, disgustful despondency, emanating164 from an association with their lords after they had become filled to repletion165 with philosophic wisdom. It was easy, however, to perceive the struggling elasticity166 of purity and goodness in outreaching desire for kindred association, and hopeful deliverance from an entombed death of corruption167. Pointing out several knights and ladies of more compact physical attainments, and vivacious169 movements in the expression of thought correspondence with features, the tribune stated that their improved appearance was solely170 dependent upon an admixture 215of foreign blood, opposed to swilling171 barley172 mead173, and coarse gluttony. Many of these had sent their infants to Manatitlan colonistic schools, and, by the after adoption174 of their children’s example, had raised themselves to a comparative appreciation175 of the privileges bestowed177 for the elevation178 of humanity above the coarser instincts of its sub-alliance with the lower orders of animality.
The next train, in the knightly179 roachalvacade, embraced in the retinues180 of its leaders the representative extremes of humanity in the British Isles181. They had bluff182 apetital features, with but a slight remnant predisposition to the philosophical184 swinishness that enveloped185 with fatty folds the direct descendants of their Saxo-German antecedents. In the place of jowled lethargy, they presented bold taural fronts, with a canine186 expression of tenacity187 about their mouths, that would cause you to involuntarily shrink from a collision with their heads and teeth. Indeed, their general aspect was stout188 and still in manifestation189, indicating strong bodily self-reliance. The women exhibited a robust191 air of independence, with the pleasing accompaniment of rosy192 complexions193, in strong contrast with the pale, inanimative features of their German cousins, which declared at sight their freedom from servility, with the exhibition of a coexistent power that could turn or tame the obstinate194 fronts of the males, when within the circle of their domestic domain195.
Following close in the rear of English lead, came the Gallic French, who with chattering196 volubility and grimace197, more than supplied the paucity198 of words used by those in advance. In personal characteristics they were in every respect foreign to their preceding neighbors. Without listening or replying they all talked in medley199, which impressed me with the conviction that they had no definite ideas beyond the present evidences of their existence, or hopes of a future free 216from the predominating influence of their bodies’ frivolous200 selfishness. This impression was confirmed by the tribune, who said that sympathy with, and confidence in their kind, were alike ignored, each holding that the gratification afforded by the passing moment, was the only happiness and real hope, life afforded.
“In accordance with these assumptions, which they verify in act, we have found them loquaciously201 factious202, and quite as unsettled as their Giga countrymen and exemplars; expressing in a breath the strongest terms of wordy affection and hatred203 for the same person, and in their constantly recurring204 civil feuds205, destroying their rulers and relatives with less compunction than individuals of an opposing race. In verity206 from frivolous habits in thought and act, they have become despicable examples of the disorganizing effect of infidelity to Creative indications designed for our self-control. The French women, as you observe in the boldness of their public demeanor208, are as vivaciously209 apt for the illustration of the opposite gender’s instinctive ideas of happiness in domestic association, as the German are submissive.”
The Spanish knightly representatives next passed in review. As roach cavaliers, they were far above their predecessors211 in graceful212 bearing and dignity of deportment; but their thoughts were inwardly disposed to the sole devotion of self-contemplation, looking down from the lofty pinnacle213 with supercilious214 complacency and condescension215 on all alike, expecting from others the deferential216 consideration they paid to themselves. The women were veiled and demure217 in bearing, but the instinctive sparkle of their eyes defied the gauzy fabric’s concealment218.
The Italians came next, yielding, as entertainers, precedence to the four leading nations. The Mouthpat descendants of Italian nativity, as is the wont219 of the stocks derived from their audacious ingraft, 217assumed the lead. Closing the roachavalcade were knight adventurers from lesser220 nationalities, lacking in numbers sufficient for separate display. Alas221, for my own and companion’s vaunted power of self-control over our instinctive passions, when exposed from inexperience to human acts of cruelty committed from the wantonness of power. As these human novelties passed under our curious inspection222, panoplied223 and strangely garbed224 in glittering armour225, one of the sturdy knights attached to the rear, in mere226 wantonness for the exhibition of his prowess without the risk of rebuttal, with the pretext227 of a gibing inquiry228 with regard to the health of his maternal229 parent, suspended an unoffending tit dwarf230 by thrusting his spear through his jerkin, holding him aloft, while the blood from a flesh wound trickled231 over his hose. It was well for the successful issue of our undertaking232 that a kindly234 disposed herald not only relieved him from his uncomfortable plight235 but gave him the wherewith for the purchase of another garment with the largesse236 he had received from the other knights, and in retribution ejecting the offender237 with disgrace from the lists. This justly merited punishment pacified238 our irate239 desire to call the aggressor to an account for his wanton cruelty. The warmth of our sympathetic pity caused the Coliseos, with a smile, to warn us that if we attempted to redress240 all the wanton and cruel aggressions that would be forced upon our notice, with the infliction242 of bodily punishment, we should be obliged to forego the benefits of peaceful example altogether. “We are powerless to stay the barbarous cruelties they practice among themselves, and our interference would only serve to aggravate243 the spirit of retaliation244. From the beginning, the course pursued by our people has been beset245 with many temptations provoking arbitrary interference for the redress of wrongs. But they have managed to escape free from serious difficulty up to the present time, and our presence here 218to-day was compelled by affectionate sympathy to save the lives of well disposed parents whose children have been intrusted to our charge. With your aid we can now make a lasting246 impression that will prevent future aggressions, for they have a hereditary dread247 of the actual presence of the unadulterated Manatitlans.”
The trumpets sounding a parley248 for the announcement of the regulations of the day, and terms of the challengers, caused us to give hasty thanks to the tribune for his timely admonitions, with the promise that we would try and hold our feelings aloof249 from passionate250 excitement in behalf of all except those in whose aid we had enlisted251. The lull252 that succeeded the herald’s call permitted us to hear the alheu of the pursuivant, but the special conditions of the challengers were drowned by the renewed buzz of voices. Gathering253 strength from personal retorts, they gave birth to sounds ranging from the high nasal to the low guttural of the German dialects, accommodating themselves to fragmentary enunciations of words, and the most dissonant254 syllabic combinations possible in conjuration from the rumbling255 intonations of indigestion. These crudities were jargonized with the curt256 unconsolidated English, the fustian257 croak258 of the Dutch, Gallic flippancy259, slipshod Irish, and the nasal bagpipe260 drone or burr of the Scotch261; to which was added the quavering Italian, the soft flow of the Spanish, with cadenced262 harmony of intonation80, and the horrible rasping cartilaginous utterances263 of the Jewish nose, so repulsively264 selfish that endurance shudders265 in memory of the infliction. The tumult266 of tongues intercepted267 and confused the herald’s announcement, so that we were dependent upon the pantomimic acts of the stewards269 and beadles for an interpretation270 of the decrees regulating the combat. The Coliseos were in no way anxious to witness the medlarious enactments273, so we were preferred to the most eligible274 positions for 219the gratification of our newly fledged curiosity, which I am ashamed to confess was over eager, and for the occasion must have lowered us in the estimation of our cousins. Our position exposed to us, in side view, the entire multitude in its caste gradations, from the canopied pope and cardinals and their created nobility, with the “fair ladyes” occupying the pavilion opposite, upward through the terraced ascent to the “strident gods,” who worried each other with true mythological zest275 when disengaged from the supervision276 of those below. When eager expectation was at its height, attention was diverted from the lists by solemn long drawn277 blasts of sackbuts accompanied with the roll of drums. This new phase closed the mouths of yelping278 instinct, and with the awed280 hush281, the object cause of the doleful braying282 made its appearance from the gates of a dovecot abbey. This was a priestly procession moving with slow cadenced steps to the sound of an anthemed dirge283. The tribune, who seemed to be intuitively apprized of all the movements in the routine phases of priestcraft, informed me that the procession preceded by the palled284 bier indicated a judicial285 combat, which was instituted for the final decision by the judgment of God of right and wrong in argument, as well as the guilt286 and innocence287 of persons accused of crimes. Farther exposition was anticipated by the entrance of a herald into the arena, who proclaimed, with an alheu,—“Whereas, it has occurred,—to the extreme mortification288 of his holiness,—that certain of the consistorial incumbents,—to wit, the holy brothers Bonefacio and Buenaventura, have differed in their estimate concerning the preferred essentials of sufficient and efficacious grace; giving rise to the implied accusations290 of perjury291, with taunts, that in the warmth of expression exceeded the bounds of Christian forbearance,—it has been determined292 by our holy father, that they shall have extended to them the privilege 220of deciding a question so important to their respective personalities293, and the general welfare of souls, by the ordeal294 of battle. In referring the detection of the perjured295 to the judgment of God, the doom296 pronounced upon the convicted,—in vindication297 of the just and holy laws instituted by the gracious clemency298 of our holy father,—it hath been adjudged that the respondents be awarded the benefit of knight champions, who for the love and sustenance299 of truth, in devotion to the holy mother church, shall offer, in willing submission300, their bodies with arms for the decision of the question at issue, using their utmost exertion301 in skillful encounter, that the perjured may suffer merited punishment.”
The instinctive elements of humanity, like those which hold irruptive sway from excessive accumulation in the earth’s interior, involve anticipatory302 emotions of coming events. As, with the vacuum lull of the forest that heralds303 the tornado304; or, in the ocean calm, the bubbling ripple305 crests307 which warn the volantaph of an approaching tempest; and the dread silence that precedes the earthquake’s convulsive throes,—the congregated308 multitude in counterpart had anticipated from the dirge the startling premonition of some horrible gratification. From suppressed respiratory gaze, unbroken except from an occasional Jewish croak, or belching309 eructations from uncircumcised barbarians310 unaccustomed to the suppressed control of reverential awe279, the multitude, when the cause for the sombre prelude312 was announced, burst the bonds of thoughtless silence with deafening313 shouts for champions. The knights no less prompt offered their service in mass, so that it became necessary for the interdicted314 prelates to make selection of champions; in aid the heralds sounded their call for a parade procession. As the squires brought in the knightly equipments for their masters, the grooms led in the panoplied war-roaches. When mounted the knights passed 221in review before the consistorial pavilion. Exposed to the searching glances of spiritual and temporal criticism they exerted all their dexterity316 in the management of the roach-steeds and in the changing exercise of sword and spear to win the favor of an election. Cardinal98 Bonefacio had with other accomplishments318 acquired the reputation of being an expert roach equitator, as well as a skillful artist in the use of arms, in his temporal days. Buenaventura, his polemical adversary319, aware of these advantages, and his own defective320 judgment, sought by the chicanery321 of his eyes to detect Cardinal Bonefacio’s preference, as in casting lots he had won the first choice, which would enable him to secure the champion of his opponent’s election. Among the knights there was one from Tipperary, a county shire in the Island of Hibernation322, a dependency of Albion. This knight bore the title and name of Sir O’Ham Ill Tong, of Scythio-Mongolian extraction. His brogue, and quaint323 peculiarities of speaking in reversion, had attracted the tribune’s attention, who was familiar with the derivation of his sept and lingual324 idiom. He informed me that the literal meaning of his name was bad pork, as it was customary with the Mongolian tribes to name those outlawed325 from the hereditary cognomen326 of Kan Avan, or John, the son of the tribe, with the cause of defection; which in his case might have been inherited from ancestral resemblance, exchanging a bad article for good, or stealing from his own tribe, as each of these crimes were punished with bestowal327 of a name referring to the cause of attaint. His squire118 still bore the tribal329 name, and for economy enacted330 the part of roach-groom. This unique pair had attracted mirthful attention, and were the especial favorites of the gods; the knight for correspondence with name, and Kan Avan, his squire, for successful apish imitation of his master’s traits; but both were so blinded with boastful vanity that even 222the scoffing332 plaudits of the hinds334 ministered to its inflation. Cardinal Bonefacio, being in disposition183 humorously inclined, could not divert his eyes from the combined comicalities of their forms, pretensions335, and clownish movements. This marked interest at once decided336 the choice of Cardinal Buenaventura. The wisdom of his selection was confirmed when the generosity337 of Bonefacio suggested a more prudent338 election. Finding that his colleague’s determination could not be changed, Bonefacio made Don Bacalao his proxy339, a Spanish knight who depended upon his dignity and purity of lineage for success.
The cardinals having selected their champions, the lists were cleared for the encounter, the beadles remaining to enforce the ritualistic regulations. When the champions had assumed their positions, the barrier gates were opened to admit the judicial brotherhood340, who while chanting their dirge proceeded to the centre of the arena and there deposited the bier with its palled coffin333, upon which had been placed a skull341 and crossed bones of the human leg; over these as a dividing barrier the two champions would be required to thrust their lances in closing career. With this sable342 wall interposed, gravely premonitory with its relict escutcheon, of sepulchral343 entertainment, Sir O’Ham’s face became blanched344, while the point of his spear directed heavenward described in trembling movements a geometrical medley of circles with acute triangles, as if engaged in calculating his chances of being elected a tenant345. The face of the Spaniard, more intelligent in expression, but with deeper set fanatical lines, became overshadowed with fitful gloom as he intently watched the ominous346 proceedings347 of the cortege. Even the “gods” became silent with awe, in the presence of these foreboding evidences of the end of mortality, involuntarily crossing their foreheads and breasts with their fingers, as if to exorcise inevitable348 fate. With the sound of the trumpets for 223the charge, the perturbation of Sir O’Ham Ill Tong caused him to lose all control over himself and spear, the latter in its fall to rest encountered the beadle’s head. The blow was as free from the attaint of misdirection as it would have been in the most skillful hands with the intention of producing the prostrate349 result which it accomplished350 with the beadle. Although reduced to an attitude of supplication351, the victim of this mishap352 gave voice to language widely at variance353 with the formulistic words used in Catholic prayer. The beadle’s uncontrollable anger, and the increased confusion of the champion, were of that humorous cast that renders mirth irresistible354, even under the impression of imposing355 solemnities, and the restraining presence of those high in worshipful authority. In the present instance, the pope was constrained to turn his head aside, but his jowls shook and vibrated with jellied throbs356 that absolved357 even the ladies, in the opposite pavilion, from the painful effort that would have been required to conceal95 their mirthful emotions. The contagious358 effect of boisterous359 laughter would have made irresistible headway with the democratic elements of the godhead, but for the timely forethought of the heralds, and the mettlesome360 impatience361 of the roaches, which seconded with spirit the trumpet’s sound to charge. This the disgraced beadle, with aching head, encouraged with a smart kick applied362 to a sensitive part of O’Ham’s steed, causing it to start in its career with an impetus363 that nearly unseated the worthy364 knight. Losing his stirrups at the start the champion of Cardinal Buenaventura was obliged to exercise all the presence of mind within his reach to restrain his fiery365 roach from the dreaded366 encounter over the sable barrier; but fed at the table of the Giga pontiff, restraint was impossible. Notwithstanding the mad career of the high-fed roach, the knight with instinctive bravery clutched his spear, and would have directed it with his usual 224skill to the barret bars of Don Bacalao’s visor (recorded from his after confession) had not the doomed367 (by after intention) knight anticipated delayed design by the then present achievement of the same purpose with successful effect; his spear’s point catching368 in the slits369 of O’Ham’s visor he was hurled370 from his saddle a perjured man. His dangling371 spear having wounded one of the judicial brotherhood that was added to the sum of his day’s disgrace. Hisses372, and contemptuous words of scorn saluted the knight’s highly sensitive instincts from the mouths of high and low degree when raised from his grovelings in the dust. To his discomfiture373 was added the pains and penalties of knightly disgrace that condemned374 his memory to infamy375. Stripped of his armor by the beadles and grooms, his spurs were hacked376 from the heels of his brogans. The tribune informs me, that the name of the shoe is derived from the resemblance of its creak to the Hibernian’s brogue. His roach steed, and squire, participating in their master’s disgrace, were stripped of their housings, but the former, apparently377 less sensitive in the appreciation of his perjured condition, shook his blattidial wings with relieved satisfaction, in lively contrast with the crooning wirra of his companions. Then the three unfortunates were reduced as nearly to a state of nature as the regulations of modesty378 permitted; the knight and squire were haltered and placed upon the roach in a reversed position and led from the arena amid the jeers379 of the multitude. The heartless lack of pitying sympathy shown to the knight and his companions in misfortune, aroused in our breasts emotions akin233 to indignation, but we were again warned that we must not be prodigal380 with our kindly instincts unless we wished to bankrupt them in utter disgust. Finding ourselves constantly astray with the kindly yearnings of our inexperience in the ways of worldly human instinct, we resolved to set aside the integrity of our home 225impressions and abide382 by the direction of the Coliseo’s example.
When the judicial ordeal closed, his holiness and consistorials left the lists, that the people might enjoy their more profane383 amusements free from the embarrassment385 imposed by their sacred presence, Cardinal Buenaventura showing especial chagrin386 in being obliged to acknowledge that effectual grace was not sufficient. The only representatives of the priesthood remaining in the lists, who were not in the actual charge of souls, were abbots and priors, with their canons of inferior calibre, none of the Episcopal diocesans venturing to remain, although many cast longing161 and critical glances to the appointments and bearings of the knights through whose arrayed ranks they filed out of the lists on their way to the vatican. The judicial brotherhood with their dismal387 bar to joviality388, and prisoners, disappeared within the gates of their sanctuary389.
The relief from the combined influence of the departed became immediately manifest in the bantering391 freedom of all the gradations of the assemblage; the clergy392 leading in the display of wit and gallantry, but in a manner that frequently trenched upon the laity’s interested sense of propriety393. The Joust137, from the delay occasioned by the judicial combat, was now hastened, and the two processions were but shortly housed before the first two lances were splintered. Count San Pietro Marceroni, Captain of the Papal Guard, was the Italian’s Mouthpat champion, and had succeeded in gaining a slight advantage in bearing off the cockscomb that surmounted394 the helmet of Count Saint Poll de Parrote, a French knight of great renown395, as an adept396 in the chivalric397 accomplishments of the age, as well as in the gastronomic398 art, having been elected by the Pope chief of cuisine399, esteemed the most important office within his gift. Between the two knights there had been a 226warm rivalry for the favors of Princessa Idolisima Canonica, a niece of the pope, after his election to the Papal chair. As upon the result of the encounter the pope’s favor depended, the friends of Count Parrote, confident in his successful prowess, had presented him the helmet he wore as a presage400 of victory. This was surmounted with a cock’s head, neck, wings, tail, and comb, all in exultant401 elevation, as if sounding the highest octave in the clarion402 notes of victory. His countrymen, with still greater assurance, had caused the artist to execute a wreath composed of hearts, spear-heads, and trefoil, worked in gold; this circled and was attached to the cock’s crest306. When this was borne off by the well directed aim of Count Marceroni’s spear point, I will acknowledge that I felt an instinctive thrill of elation403. Still if his signal skill had resulted otherwise than in a bloodless victory, notwithstanding the flippant presumption404 of Count Parrote, I am assured that I should have felt a tremor405 of dismayed horror. In sustaining the reputation he had won Count Marceroni successively overthrew406 the stalwart son of Baron407 Biermywitzs, a young knight with an excellent German reputation for capacity. Baron Brainoff, a Muscovite with a heavy animal cast of countenance408, theoretically accomplished in the Tartar tactics of thrust, run, and come again, which he displayed; but the arena was too contracted for their successful evolution, for he was overtaken and overthrown409, his roach participating in his fall. His last encounter was with Baron von Wolfenstein, an Austrian knight with a powerful phlegmatic410 physique of vis inertia. At the start he placed his lance in rest over the carapace411 of his roach with the hopeful expectation of finding his opponent impaled412 thereon after the course had been run. When, from a defect in his calculation of his foe’s condescension, he found himself a prostrate companion with his steed, he did not exhibit 227in his movements the least symptom of chagrin, although saluted with the derisive413 jests of the democratic plebs, who appeared to enjoy with intense satisfaction the privilege of jousting414 their superiors with revilings, when temporarily reduced to their own groveling level. After a leisurely415 survey of his situation he slowly, by easy stages, regained416 his upright position without the proffered417 aid of the beadles; then with sluggish movements unlaced his beaver418, and raising his visor, showed a face wreathed in torpid419 smiles that seemed to have had their rise from the recognition of the scoffing taunts as plaudits for the execution of some knightly achievement that had escaped his memory. This innocent act of mazy stupidity was taken by the spectators as a witty420 assumption in burlesque421 of victory, and vividly422 impressed with his supposed humorous aptness they made the welkin echo with their shouts of applause, until he had bowed himself out of the lists. Count Marceroni, by this democratic misapprehension of cause and effect, was completely robbed of the merited zest due to his adroit423 exhibition of skill in the precise use of weapons, and the Austrian Baron, the least worthy of his antagonists424, was established as the prime favorite of the worshipful gods.
Turning to the tribune a look of inquiry, I observed with surprise that his face, for the first time, was suffused425 with a pleased expression. In explanation, he said that the scene I had just witnessed was a truthful426 exposition of the source from which a majority of the Gigas and Animalculans derived their reputations for wisdom, wit, and invention; in truth, he continued, musingly427, you can take it as a fair demonstration428 of the substance of their living realities. Embracing the opportunity, he again advised us not to let our Manatitlan natures interpose their sensitive perceptions for the gratuitous429 bestowal of praise or pity, as they would serve to mar110 the relish430 of comical 228effects afforded by the hap-hazard novelties in store from the heterogeneous431 imitations of Giga habits and customs.
While the “fun” provoked by the suppositious humor of the Austrian baron, Wolfenstein, was at its height, the heralds announced the melée. The arena, in this promiscuous432 scene of antagonism433, was so completely filled with knights and their roach steeds that the space between the challengers and challenged only afforded a limited movement, short spears having been substituted for the longer and more cumbersome couch-lance, but the favorite weapons were clubs, swords, and battle-axes. As the combatants were so nearly in contact with each other when unroached, they discarded all weapons save the short dagger434, and it was fearful to behold435 the fierce blows dealt with it, for instead of men the combatants appeared like enraged436 beasts who used knives, and other weapons, in the place of claws. But as the horrible scene progressed, we were often obliged to turn our faces aside from dizzy faintness. The roaches imitating the fierce example of their riders became infuriate, seizing with their mandibles opposing legs and antenn?, so that many were disabled by mutilating attacks both in front and rear, for in the melée they showed as little regard for honorable usage of the parts exposed as their riders. It was gratifying to see that a majority of the ladies’ heads were bowed down, with their hands tightly pressed upon their ears, and it was long after all the evidences of the bloody437 fray438 had been removed that they again assumed an upright position. This evidence of sensitive repugnance439, on the part of women personally known to them, produced a congratulatory revulsion with the Coliseos, who hailed it as a favorable omen190, with the hope that its influence had turned aside the fanatical intentions that meditated440 the sacrifice of the kidnapped tits upon the altars of superstition442. In the 229enthusiasm of the moment, my mentor exclaimed: “I firmly believe that there is not a Giga or Animalculan mother in Italy, who, in freedom from bias443, would refuse the privilege of having their children educated in accordance with the Manatitlan system!”
After the sand had been renewed in the lists to cover the unsightly stains, a light and joyous444 rondalen was sounded, and the commingled445 challengers and challenged were seen issuing from their tents in the wooded bosque, and mounting fresh roaches, newly caparisoned with gay trappings, they again entered the lists. When the roachavalcade reached the barrier vestibule, the heralds proclaimed: “Count San Pietro Marceroni, the elected king champion of the lists, in whom is vested absolute authority, and honors that will remain inviolate447, until in an approved tourney a worthy successor can be found. Salute86 your champion king!” The trumpets then sounded the crowning tan-tarra, while the count, assisted by twelve knights-of-honor, dismounted and was invested with the kingly robes of love and honor, then kneeling upon a richly wrought448 carpet he was crowned by the master of ceremonies with the consecrated449 chaplet of Mars. As he rose the vast assemblage saluted him with the exclamations450: “Long live the noble Count San Pietro Marceroni, king champion of the lists!” the mouthed concussions452 of boisterous adulation causing the canopies453 to vibrate with the echoing sound of noisy and noisome454 breath.
Again the braying of trumpets and clash of cymbals overpowered the tumultuous shouts of the multitude, and when sufficiently455 hushed for a single voice to be heard, the grand master gave utterance in proclamation to the maxim456: “It is not good for man to rule alone! And, in obedience457 to well approved custom, and the chivalric gallantry of brave hearts, it hath been adjudged that after his own installation the king champion shall, from his own choice, elect a 230queen of love and beauty to preside in public at feast and festival during the term of his regality. In accordance with this imperative decree our salutations await his choice!”
Mounting his richly caparisoned blattidean roach with a graceful vault458, Count Marceroni caused him to execute a variety of changes in pace of the most difficult posing gaits imaginable; and, while passing from a demi-amble to a demi-cavolt, raised from its cushion in the hands of his squire the chaplet designed for his queen upon the point of his lance, allowing it to rest in loop upon its cross-check. This adroit feat139 was greeted with shouts of applause, which stimulated459 him to enact271 a great variety of euphuistic attitudes,—a species of pantomimic male coquetry then much in vogue460 with the Giga nobility,—which the tribune said would express, with the scenes of the day, how ritualistically void in enactment272, the exemplar and imitator were for the real attainment63 of happy impressions. There was certainly for the instinctive worshipper, much to admire in the studied adroitness461 of the count’s acquirements, as they bespoke disciplined perseverance462; but when I reflected that his manly463 capabilities464 had been expended upon frivolous expertness to grace a brutal465 pastime, I found cause for self-reprobation for the sympathy of my admiration467. Of the count’s predilection468 all seemed to be aware, but, withal, held their breathing subdued with expectation to gather force for a new outburst of applause when his acceptance was confirmed. Arriving in front of the Princessa Idolisima’s pavilion, by the longest circuit, with doublings, that the effect of his euphuistic mimicries might be fully469 appreciated, he with an obeisance470 that enveloped the caput-shield of his roach with the plumes471 of his casque, petitioned with his voice; “Will the most noble Princessa Idolisima Canonica deign472 to share the brief rule of her humble473 subject, Count San Pietro Marceroni, as the queen of love, beauty, and harmony?”
231With a blush of equivocal import, she nodded her acceptance. Then, while her eyes were yet concealed under the latticed veil of their long, silken lashes474, the count, with infinite grace, conveyed the coronet with a “coup de lance” to its proper position on her head without disturbing a ringlet with its steel. Plaudits in salvos rose in deafening succession with the successful accomplishment317 of this dexterous475 feat, which bespoke long and patient practice with a living model. The princessa represents through ——, her uncle, the pope, one of the original Mouthpat families of Greenpat, with blood variations from European ingraft, which had produced a remarkable476 improvement, by blending and mellowing477 with distance the animal traits into an expression, that might with propriety be termed instinctive idealization. Her eyes are black with a shadowy impression of azure478 softening479 the snaky brilliancy of the Italian into a sympathetic hue480, free from the luric reflection of vengeful passions. When free from exciting emotions, they beam forth481 an expression of calm dignity, above the sway of lust210, vanity, and envy, that gave birth to the cruel frivolities of the day, which she evidently patronizes from compulsion. The composition, in outline, of her other features, corresponds in expression with her eyes, bespeaking482 the struggling emergence483 of her thoughts from sensual control, although, from relative association, obliged to conform to the usages that hold ruling sway. But, withal, there is apparent to our eyes an underlying484 consciousness of purity and goodness, with her responsibility for their cultivation485 and preservation486 for transmission. We were so strongly impressed with her longing desire for more substantial attainments than the illusive vanities with which she was surrounded, that we could not refrain from giving voice to our thoughts, which brought a succession of grateful flushes to the tribune’s face, foretokening an interest of deeper import than our observation had 232previously detected. Frankly487 acknowledging the predisposition his emotions indicated he begged to be excused from an explanation while subject to so many counter enactments. A request that delicacy488 conceded without voiced assurance.
While the northern portion of the lists was in the process of transformation489 into a sectional amphitheatre for the exhibition of an ant and tarantula fight,—which unfortunately our position overlooked,—Count Marceroni led his queen with her maids of honor into a pavilion erected for her reception at the extreme southern portion of the arena, which in construction had received his special supervision. When this, after occupation, was exposed to view, the splendor490 of its appointments in tinsel adornment received the prayerful adoration491 of the assemblage. Seated in front of the pavilion on its extended platform, just without the shadow of its dais, were two celebrated492 improvisorial troubadours of Provence, a small kingdom in the south of France. These were to contend in verse and song for prizes to be awarded by the queen of beauty, love, and harmony, to the adjudged successful superiority of the competitors in their varied493 styles of adventurous494 composition. A laurel wreath, or chaplet, had been prepared for the queen’s crowning disposal, with the title of laureate; the recipient495 holding with the emblematic496 token the conferred privilege of supremacy497 in his vocation498 through all the Animalculan courts of Christendom, until a greater star should appear in the musical firmament499, for his eclipse, under the like sanction of infallible approval. When the congregation were fully separated for the suitable enjoyment500 of their tastes in the contrasted extremities501 of the lists,—the northern having the relative preponderance of eight to one of the southern audience,—a screen was drawn to intercept268 the boisterous freedom of the borealian sphere.
233When the arrangements were fully completed, a maiden502 herald pronounced in silvery tones, “Alheu!” Then Penny Song with tuneful rebeck essayed his overture503 with reverent311 eyes upturned in conceptive supplication to the ruling goddess of love and harmony. To the symphony of murmuring strings504 in soft prelude to a rippling505 vision from the fountain of musical poesy, he began his lay. Gradually, with the accession of tributary506 streams, the current tones increased from the smooth still voiced streamlet, until it merged507 into the rapid flow of the pebbly508 brook509, combining in sound cascade510 variations with rippling flow over shallow inequalities into the bubbling depths of a pool, and from thence onward511 with accumulating force into the deep volume of the river’s tide. His voice in harmonious512 movement, tremulous with emotions reinvoked from passionate recitative thought, rehearsed in song the Songs of Solomon. Floating with the gilded513 wings of sensual taste, he fluttered over the luscious514 lisp of lips united in their sip515 of virgin516 nectar from the fount of instinctive love; at first chaste517 and free from guile92 in the sparkling depths of pure desire,—but, anon, overflowing518 in contemplation of the wide expanse of flowery meads, until satiated with its profligate519 deviation520 from the legitimate boundaries of its course, he discovers with lamentation521 the muddy defilement522 that exceeds his hopes of purification. The song of the bard523 was wildly descriptive of the longings524 of instinctive desire, until the hero had embraced with his wisdom the fairest and loveliest daughters of Israel; then imbecile with sensual gratification, he utters in his senility the wailing525 cry: “Vanity, all is vanity!” and is gathered to his father’s dust. The Princessa Idolisima, when the theme became expressive526 in sensual development, perused527 attentively528 the countenances529 of all within reach of her eyes, but seeing how eagerly engrossed530 they were with the voluptuous531 234portrayals of the poet bard, she with her selected companions bowed their heads upon their hands with a sorrowful blush of shame. This mood the bard observing, with the cause, introduced into his lamentations strong reproof533 of himself for the selection of a subject so replete534 with infamous535 suggestion. His sarcasm536 eloquent537 in self-condemnation aroused the lascivious538 from their enraptured539 fancies, causing them, from shame, to break the spell; and when they saw the princessa and her maids with their heads bowed down, many from self-conviction gave evidence that within themselves they felt the cause. Among these was Count San Pietro Marceroni. The bard approved himself to be in the possession of extraordinary imitative powers, for in his recitative picture he held his hearers, of subject kind, entranced and as quickly aroused them with the pungency540 of his addenda541 to the dirged lamentations of instinctive wisdom, which would have startled the old hero to a more energetic renunciation of his follies than the vapid542 exclamation451, that his experience was vanity and vexation of spirit.
The prelude of his competitor, Long Bow, was far more primitive543 in its characteristic portrayal532, being timed to irregular cadences544 of barbaric import. The plaintive545 melody evoked546 by his touch from a stringed gourd547 was in consonance with the strains of his song-theme, which depicted548 the wild erratic549 love of savage550 life, but with far less instinctive merit in recitative description than the love ditties of our Betongese neighbors. At times the savage devotion of the lovers seemed to rise above the animal instincts of sense, but only to sink deeper into the mythical551 regions of hopeful doubt and despair. The butt24 at which Long Bow aimed was a rhythmic552 measure adapted to savage nomenclature and the improvised553 harmony of his gourd.
At the conclusion of his recitative the herald 235maiden called: “Give ear, lovers of the gay and joyous science,—attend! while the queen of love, beauty, and harmony approves with her commendation and award the happy victor in the joust of improvised song?” The count champion offered his hand to assist Idolisima in her descent to the balcony erected for the bestowal of awards, but his bearing was abashed554 with the conscious self-reflection of unworthiness. Idolisima, the queen, without assistance stepped self-reliantly forward to her position, and then, without ceremonious prelude, beckoned555 Long Bow to advance. Approaching he knelt in accordance with the prescribed euphuistic forms of chivalric obeisance in the presence of royalty556. Placing the chaplet upon his brow she bid him rise. Then calling Penny Song forward she presented him with a zithern, the prize for the victor in song. The assemblage, disappointed in her award of the laureate’s chaplet, were appeased557 by the more substantial gift of the zithern to their favorite, recognizing in its material worth a preference for their choice. This material appeal to their senses opened the only avenue to their appreciation, but their partial murmurs558 of approval were stilled by a look and disdainful wave of the hand. When subjected to silence, she addressed Long Bow in terms adapted to the usage of chivalry560, although manifestly at variance with expectation in expression:—
“Sir minstrel, we have esteemed your claims to the title of laureate as best sustained in the court of fair ladies; inasmuch as you have been pleased to acknowledge with our presence a comparative respect for purity, by which, in fact, you have honored the worth of your own, as well as the common name of mother. By endeavoring to exalt561 with your muse384 the instinctive purity and fidelity207 of your savage heroine, the fair High Water, you have admitted that it is our duty and privilege to excel her untutored 236example. Still you have paid to ourselves and maternity562 of our race an equivocal compliment for worth in your far-fetched search for a heroine example of constancy in love and purity. Notwithstanding the implied lack of living examples worthy of imitation for the inspiration of your songful muse, we have preferred your savage precedent42 to your competitor’s glossing563 embellishment of his hero’s vices564. With the hope that you may discover, during your adventurous residence in Rome, an Animalculan or Giga representative that will honor your mother’s sex with worth sufficient to inspire your commendation in song, we would urge the undertaking as one deserving your earnest attention. In the event of success it will save your muse many weary pilgrimages into deserts and the waste places of earth for the achievement of consolation565 from savage example. That the emprise may not lack direction I will recommend you to visit the Manatitlan colony of Coliseo. For with them, when convinced of your sincerity566, you will find in woman an exaltation of loving affection that will by far exceed your highest conceptions.”
She would have extended her reproof, but as she was in the act of addressing Penny Song, her commendation of the Manatitlan colonists brought such an overwhelming “answering sibilation” in denouncement that her brothers, in fear of an outbreak, hurried her away. The minstrels during the excitement approached near enough for whispered communication, the purport567 of which brought a smile of gratification to her face. They then as a diversion commenced a roundelay of spirited movement, uniting their voices in bluff concert to the sound of the zithernas. As with enraged wild beasts when surprised with the sound of music, the factious instincts of the spectators were stilled. The Coliseos were rejoiced at the steadfast568 adherence569 of Idolisima to the inculcations 237of her Manatitlan education, for the tribune now informed us that she had served her full term in the Coliseo school, promising570 to relate at a convenient season the cause of her apparent defection.
Although fearfully repugnant to our feelings, we turned our attention to the democratic amusements in the northern sectional arena, within the vestibule of the barriers; as you cautioned us of the necessity of seeing for ourselves all the enactments that we recorded for advisorial judgment. The “pit,” as it was aptly termed, was a miniature imitation of the large arena of the lists; but the contestants for the honors of mutilation were ants of the white, red, and black species, and their antagonists were tarantulas distinguished571 by the same order and variation of colors. But with naturally a higher object in view than their human Animalculan and Giga exemplars, and controllers of the lists, they fought without the artificial weapons that man’s superior intelligence has devised for kindred destruction, in direct controversion of the manifest designs of Creative intention. The instinctive impressions of a blind man could have detected without the aid of thought, the tangible572 distinctions that had furnished the motive573 attractions for the northern and southern divisions of divertisement predilections574. The ants and the spiders engaged in mutilating encounter, were to us, in reality, more attractive objects to contemplate575 in their active ferocity, than their human spectator instigators, who combined with controlling intelligence the visual evidences of the most abject576 passions within sphere of animal and its reptile577 grade of expression. The patrons of the southern pavilion had been held in dalliance with the soft pleasures of amorous578 sensuality, which unopposed called forth the highest expression of instinctive refinement579; but the current tendencies from multifarious indulgence were to the fall and deep whirlpool abyss of passion, hate, and deadly revenge.
238The colored specie distinctions of the ants and spiders appeared to be as great a source of inveterate580 hatred between its caste representatives, as the antagonisms581 of race in form. This necessitated582 the separation of the white from the red, and the red from the black ants, with a like disposal of the tarantulas from specie representatives of opposing colors. The first encounter that we witnessed was between white and red ants; the former being universally successful with the odds583 of nine to one against them, and with the blacks twenty to one. The cause of this concentration of multiplied ability in the white, to cope with red and black antagonism, became soon apparent from their studied aforethought for the serried584 separation and disposal of their foes585 before they could effect united opposition586. The deadly devices of the whites to lure587 their foes, with the stupid blindness of the red and black ants in accepting the proffered baits without consideration, afforded a relative study for detecting the cause of the instinctive superiority that rules with white humanity. When the whites in an encounter against overwhelming odds had gained decisive advantage, the cathedral bells of Saint Peter sounded from the chief dovecot beneath our place of concealment; its funeral peals588 announced a new phase in the strange enactments of the day, which had appeared to us so perverse589 as sources of amusement that we were at no loss to discover the Giga creed origin of hell. Fearful that the long-waited-for crisis was approaching, our eyes were upon the alert.
As the yellow tints590 from the sun’s fading rays grew hazy591 with the twilight592 heraldings of darkness, the folding doors of a large building of ominous appearance opened, and from its portals issued a procession of Dominican friars. In the midst of these inquisitorial representatives of the human sacrificial order, were the unfortunate tits supported by familiars of the Holy Office, with their limbs dragging helplessly 239upon the pavement, and their heads half revolving593 on their shoulders without the power of muscular control. The sight aroused the indignation of the tribune and his companions, who with difficulty restrained us from extending to them our immediate390 aid and sympathy. This was no slight undertaking on their part, for we were unused to a knowledge of the existence of such heartlessness, and would have adventured their deliverance if the odds had been an hundred fold greater; but we finally yielded to the wisdom of their discretion594.
On the arrival of the sad cortege at the knight’s encampment they joined the procession escort of the doomed, among which were Sir O’Ham Ill Tong, and his squire, Kan Avan, who had been evidently condemned to the stake. As the gates of the northern barrier were obstructed595 by the occupation of the vestibule arena, in which the ants and spiders were engaged in an instinctive joust, the inquisitors in deference596 to the multitude awaited the decision of the contest; the latter, with reverence597, giving place for them to witness the result of the sportive entertainment, as a prelude to their premeditated enactments. At the conclusion of the melée fight of the ants, in which the white champions had proved victorious598, a large, whitish gray tarantula spider had been “pitted” against five mottled white ants, both parties having been subjected to a training abstinence from food to increase their ferocity. For a time the battle had been equally sustained, but a bold venture cost two of the ants their lives; in the feat the tarantula was maimed with the partial rupture599 of a carapace and the loss of the distal joints600 of two legs. Two of the remaining ants having a firm mandibular hold on the round carapace leg, the greatest excitement prevailed among the spectators, wagers602 being bantered603 between high and low; all distinctions of caste, for the time being, were banished604 by the talismanic605 greed for 240gold and silver. It soon became evident the auto-da-fe rites331 would be deferred606 until the result of the ant-fight was determined, for the order of procession was broken, the familiars with their human burdens crowding to gain a favorable position to witness the closing struggle. While the ants gnawed607 and swayed in hold upon the tarantula’s leg, he struggled to bring them within reach of his mandibles. The partial success of the assailants and assailed608 was greeted with vociferous609 shouts by the wager601 partisans610, unabashed by the presence of the inquisitorial brotherhood and archiepiscopal dignitaries of the church. The tribune sadly reminded us, that the brutality611 of the scene was the tested ?gis of democratic equality based upon individual or associate physical strength adroitly612 used,—chance advantages, or in massed subjection to the rule of selfish partisanship613, as with ants in attacking the spider whose habits and interests in life interfered614 in no way with their own. But as you perceive, the hinds are so stupid in the dullness of their perceptions, that with the clear analogy of the cause and result of their own condition, in demonstration from the arbitrary power of physical strength that captured and forced the ants and spider into antagonistic615 collision, they fail to detect in the caste orders of priestcraft and knighthood the same motor influence in mental combination.
With our attention called so directly to the resemblance,—from the pitiable condition of the poor tit victims, who had been tortured into the vestibule of death, and were awaiting the ordeal of fire to recall from their bodies the vital spark,—we could not fail to admire the comprehensive quickness of our Coliseo cousins’ detective acumen616 for analyzing617 the relations and gradations of instinctive responsibility. Indeed, it would be impossible for you to imagine a more discordant618 or disgusting scene, or a baser use of language than these bloodthirsty humans used at every 241disjuncture effected by the combatants. That you may obtain an inkling of this pandemonic scene of instinctive madness, I will adventure a sketch619.
Prominent among the representatives of foreign nations was a Scotch abbot of the abbey of Saint Maythedielscratch-me on the Tweed. In person and language he was tall and lank620. Although engaged in “amusement” with an English prior, the incumbent289 of Goddamnmee on the Tyne, just over the border, they “staked” fearful invectives with their metallic coin. But the English canon was evidently no favorite, and required all the bluffness621 he had attained622 by a long course of dominant623 rule over a submissive brotherhood, as well as a full purse of tithes624, for he was bantered with wagers on every side. But with bellowing625 disdain559 in the short and curt Durham dialect, he was ready with horned alternatives to oppose all comers. Chief among his secondary challengers, with coined words, was the abbe of Mortdieu, who mingled446 frothy gibes626 with his wager temptations. The ants were at length vanquished627, to the great chagrin of the English abbot’s debtors628, who tried all sorts of evasions629 to escape payment. Oncleslydenbet, the German prior of the priory of Shufflehausen, repudiated630 the payment of his forfeited631 wager in the concise632 terms, “Not a bit of it!” The Irish abbot of Fivewounds said, “To be sure I have bet and lost, but it was the understanding that I should never pay unless I won!” The Dutch incumbent of Dunderandblixen, the Welsh of Sweatmyleeks, and French paid theirs; the first with fearful imprecations and sputterings, the second with an abundant flow of perspiration633, and the last with strings of sacres.
But for your injunction, I should have withheld634 the incidents of a scene so horribly repulsive in its ferocious635 combinations of speaking inhumanity. Especially as it implies distracted attention from the wretched condition of the dislocated tits; but in direction 242we submitted to the ulterior intention of the Coliseos. The tribune, whose aid you will recognize, said, that you required an exact index of the real condition of the Giga and Animalculan races under the instinctive rule of the stomach and senses, that you might compare the evidences with those of the first falcon33 era, to judge of the cycle changes. The task, with his assistance, is by no means pleasant, as with increasing familiarity the scenes of brutality become more repulsive, so that you need have no fears that they will affect us otherwise than as a ferment636 to clarify the instincts of our bodies from corrupt168 humors and indwelling passions. Much time was exhausted637 in wrangling before the ant circus was removed to admit the papal and inquisitorial trains into the lists. The arrival of the former, while the battle of the ants and spider was pending638, was exceedingly fortunate for Cardinal Buenaventura, as by wagering639 with the pope an equivalent, with the spider for his champion, he was exorcised of his perjury, and by remitting640 to his holiness certain pecuniary641 obligations, received absolution to date. Our sympathy for the tarantula’s loss of his carapace legs, with the extreme division of the fourth, was not strongly excited, as in excess of his pope contemporary’s alleged642 stigmatic attributes of infliction and redemption, from instinctive woes643, he in reality possesses the “miraculous” power of material reproduction of lost limbs.
The arena of the lists had been rearranged for the final enactment, and furnished with stakes and faggots for the sacrificial ordeal of fire, as a purgatorial644 agent for the purification of the body from heretical sins. These altars were raised between the two pavilions; and the ladies’, I am obliged with sadness to relate, was filled with representatives of the sex, yet they were of a class whose gratifications were solely dependent upon the organs of sense. During the converting labors of the confessors with the San Benitos 243the inquisitorial monks645, dignitaries of the church, and knights, chanted a grand high mass to ritualistic ceremonial accompaniments. This was pronounced to be more affecting, by the occupants of the ladies pavilion, from the sobbing646 wails647 and lamentations of the doomed Irish knight, Sir O’Ham Ill Tong, and his squire, Kan Avan, who unceasingly proclaimed their innocence from perjury after they were tied to the stakes, thus adding contumacy to the ordeal and decisions of the judges. As their winnings disgraced the order of knighthood they were gagged with clouts648.
When these preliminary preparations were nearly completed, the tribune gave the longed for signal of rescue. In a twinkling our Manatitlans were in the midst of the inquisitors and ecclesiastics650, upsetting them in a confused pile with the knights. We liberated651 the tits by the time the Coliseo aids arrived, who placed the rescued in the arms of their relatives. The panic we created could not have been greater if we had been gigas instead of giantescoes. The women, who had looked calmly on the preparations for human sacrifice by the tortures of a slow fire, screamed and fainted at our appearance, their attendant knights surrendering without opposition. The pope and cardinals were in as much fear as the unsanctified until the tribune made known the source from whence we came. Then relieved from his apprehensions652 of bodily danger, he commenced crossing himself furiously, muttering the while anathemas653 against the Coliseos and their followers654 for the sacrilegious invasion, and interference with the sacred offices of the church. Counting upon our intimidation through the enactment of prestigious655 mummeries, he would have left with his satellites; but the tribune detained him by laying his hand upon his shoulder with an inflection that made the burly little head of the church understand that it had forced a crisis, from which mumbling656 244ritual cant657 could not extricate658 it without the assurance of a strict regard for the personal independence of all Animalculans from religious restrictions659. We will give you the terms of the tribune’s injunction:—
“Now Canonicus, that there may be no more acts of treachery on your part, or through the instigations of those subject to your direction, I shall dictate660 to you terms in behalf of our Manatitlan colonies that you must keep inviolate, for if they are infringed661 upon in the least degree we shall hold you and your associates personally responsible. We have heretofore offered you good will, but you have taken advantage of it to impose upon our communities and inflict241 personal injuries upon our adherents662; showing that you are alike destitute663 of gratitude664, and the disposition that inclines to honorable and just reciprocation665. In the first place, you are to respect the privileges of all claiming a desire for our protection, whether an Animalculan of Mouthpat birth, or of other nationality. In the second place we shall hold you personally responsible for any acts of cruelty perpetrated by Animalculans under your control upon animal or insect; and for the honor of instinctive humanity we especially interdict315 all barbarous amusements between man and man. Fortunately, communication has again been opened with our motherland, and by the timely arrival of our cousins, we have been able to avail ourselves of their counsel when most needed. From the enactments of to-day, which have borne witness to the steadfast goodness of your daughter, Idolisima, in her adherence to the inculcations of her Coliseo education, we shall hereafter require that all the Animalculan children of Rome shall from henceforth be submitted to our censorial667 and educational charge. We are aware that in assuming the charge we undertake an immense and arduous668 responsibility from the fecundity669 of your animal propensities670. But 245in time our inauguration671 will effect the substitution of improved quality for quantity with an affectionate compensation that with cultivation and reciprocation you have the means of realizing in fatherly association with your daughter.”
Here he was interrupted by Sir O’Ham Ill Tong,—from whose mouth the clout649 had been removed,—with the ejaculation: “An sure, by our holy mother, what your honor is plased to say is all gospel truth, and by the same token, if there is any more, I believe it on my shoul! But if your honor will be so obbleeging as to order one of your giants to remove this gorget that binds672 my throat to the stake, and set me free, if yees have closed what ye are going to say, I can hear the rest more comfortably, and ye’ll save from fire as good a Christian as ever was burnt for pargary,—an for the life of me, I can’t just see how that can be, for I niver spoke129 a blissed word in the matter at all!”
This characteristic wordy appeal of the Irishman was complied with on the moment, and when released he fell on his knees at the feet of the tribune, invoking673 upon his head the blessings674 of all the saints in the Irish calendar, offering to serve him to the end of his days, on foot, or on roachback, for nothing at all save fair wages, hursts, perquisites675, pickings, and the run of the kitchen, and sich likes! The ludicrous fall, in the use of words, from knightly inflation caused a smile notwithstanding the embarrassments676 imposed by our interruption. But the flow of his tongued gratitude to the ascendant party, having reference to future benefits, could with difficulty be stayed. When accomplished he was advised to return with all speed to the place of his birth before a worse evil befell his body than purification by fire.
The pope and his cardinals, while subject to the tribune’s reprehensions, became as servile in their bearing as they had before been arrogant677. The pope’s 246offer of entertainment for the night we could not accept, after witnessing the barbarous proceedings of the day, as we preferred the protection of our silicoth tapas under the cornice to the lair678 hospitality of human wolves. After the crowd dispersed679 a messenger was despatched to apprise680 the Coliseans of the successful result of our enterprise, with the desire that a falcon might be sent for us at early dawn. In accordance with our request a falcon appeared with the earliest light on the following morning, and on alighting, to our great surprise, Idolisima Canonica, in company with the tribune’s parents and other representatives of Coliseo to the howdah’s full capacity for entertainment, descended681 to receive our salutations. It appeared, from the relation of the tribune’s sister, that Idolisima after leaving the lists had sought protection under the escort of Penny Song and Long Bow, at the coliseum, well knowing that the ties of daughter and sister would not save her from the dungeons682 of the Inquisition, recently built by the pope, her uncle. From the greeting she gave the tribune, it required no prompting of speech to apprise us that a stronger motive than fear of the dungeons caused her to seek an asylum683 with her foster guardians684 of childhood.
Without teasing our curious interest in her welfare she appealed to the tribune: “Your Manatitlan cousins, Novuotus, would scarcely feel satisfied with your interest in my behalf, if I should allow you to hold me silently exculpated685 from your abiding686 confidence in the wisdom that dictated687 our betrothal688. As we are united, yet single, in the fulfillment of our marital689 alliance, I am anxiously desirous of having the affectionate sanction of their approbation690, which could not be conceded if they thought me capable of participating otherwise than by form, in the cruel enactments of yesterday. In speaking, it is my wish to vindicate691 myself from voluntary conformity692 with the chivalric usages in which I engaged, as they were 247then, as they ever have been, sadly repugnant to my conceptions of love and affection, which vividly impress me with the reality of an existence independent of the body’s mortality. That your cousins may realize in what measure they are entitled to bestow176 upon me their lenity and sympathy, I will relate to them the cause that influenced my introduction to the guardianship693 of your people. Of my ancestral origin, I am certain that the events of yesterday will better inform you than I am able from my own knowledge. In my fourth year, when my perceptions were only advanced in the bud sufficient for impression, without enlisting694 the maturing aid of thoughtful judgment derived from comparison, my father, mother, and two brothers, became very sick with the plague, alike destructive to the Giga and Animalculan races. The harrowing scenes of bereavement695 daily recounted in my presence aroused impressions of fear for myself, and when my parents became sick, I added anxiety to my aunt’s responsibility, to whose sole charge we had been left by the servants and neighbors. One day, despairing and hopeless, my aunt had enfolded me in her arms, and while wofully lamenting696 threatened desolation from the death of my parents and brother, I was trying to solace697 her with endearments698, my arms were around her neck, with my lips to her ear and face turned backward, when the door softly opened and my voice was stilled by the surprise of my eyes at the entrance of a very large and beautiful woman. [Here Idolisima fondly embraced, with caresses699, the neck of the Doschessa of Romelia.] My silence and fixed700 attention attracted my aunt’s eyes to the door, and when she discovered the stranger, who appeared to be well known to her, she was much abashed that she had been surprised in useless lamentation. This made me gladly hope that the visitor was an angel sent to help us; so, growing bold with the feeling of hope, I gently withdrew 248myself from my aunt’s embrace and approached the stranger imploring701 her aid for my parents and brothers! In a moment I was in her arms; then I became so quickly changed, I no longer feared, for her voice and touch made me feel so secure that I was sure she came from heaven to help us. But I have since experienced that she came from a far better place beyond the reach of gold and its selfish attractions. Urging my aunt to take new courage, she went out, still holding me in her arms, and meeting a censor666, with others of her people, she returned, and soon our house became quite changed, for they brought with them your clothes that remain clean, so that from being dismal and sad everything looked nice and cheerful. Then mother reviving, she also knew the angel, who asked her if she could take me to her Coliseo home? Oh, how gladly my mother smiled with her whispered yes, so faintly and pleadingly grateful in earnest expression it has ever been present since. Striving to speak, my mother fell asleep without breathing, but still she smiled, until it paled to a shadow in the moonlight, then we were taken to the Coliseo, for my aunt required rest, where we were bathed and dressed with the care of so many sweet faced persons, that we became quite bewildered with love and slept. In the morning we were wakened with sunlight and song, so harmonious with gladness, my aunt touched me to be sure, for we both thought alike. I was placed in school where there were so many that in love we were counted as one, for we were so united in affection that tears of vexation and sadness never flowed. Then as I grew in years, I learned to grow emulous in the personal requirements of purity, and with the care of myself, was able to assist others, for the grateful meed of love. Much more I could say, but I feel that you do not require it. When my father became my uncle, Pope Innocent I., I had reached my eighteenth year, and 249had been betrothed702 to Novuotus, and we were enjoying the hospitality of my foster parents, the Dosch and Doschessa of Romelia, during our term of probation466, when my father, after his election, demanded that my aunt and myself should be restored to his care. The Dosch, after a long consultation703 with his advisors704, for he was very sorry to part with us, concluded that it was best for us to return. This was a very sad decision for us, but we were assured that if we found ourselves unhappy from being unable to do good, we could come back. We were then taken to my ‘uncle’s’ temporal court, but none were truly glad to see us, for we were strangers, even to my father, for he would not accept the monthly invitation to visit me at the Coliseo school. Yet we were constantly surrounded with a throng705 of servants and people of condition, so that with them, we were mere puppets, and felt very unclean, for we could do nothing for ourselves. But all were very profuse706 in the utterance of complimentary707 formalities, which made us feel like exiles from real affection. The first process to which we were subjected was purification from heresy708; in preparation our silicoth garments were removed, and our persons were redressed709 with woven stuffs, that in their newness smelt710 animally earthy, and soon became irksome in weight, and rankly unendurable, notwithstanding they had been sprinkled with holy water at the time we were baptized. Then, my aunt was made, or created, queen of Rome, and I was christened Princess Idolisima Canonica by the same process. A few days since my aunt escaped and went back to unite with her Coliseo affections; since than I have been closely guarded, as I had attempted to leave with her, but was foiled by accident. So with my father turned uncle, I became the puppet, or bone and flesh of contention711 for the strongest and best trained brute712 in the lists, and was seemingly obliged to conform to the dictated usages; 250but with the determination to escape if an opportunity offered. In this relation I have traced my childish impressions in the language I have been accustomed to impart them to my loved school associates; to remodel13 them to suit my present perceptions would detract from memorial pledges of affection. That you saw me in the lists yesterday, came not through my own volition713, as you will concede; but perhaps, from a wise wish on the part of the Dosch and his advisors to test in what I lacked for the power of resisting the wordy flatteries and material vanities to which I would be exposed in the papal court of my uncle. For I had exceeded in years your period of matriculation, as my instinctive impressions are still retained in memory, with the infantile desires perpetuated714 in assumed motherhood of artificial productions in baby likeness715. But if you can only see me as I feel, and have felt, in pity for the barren love of the mothers of Rome, who are content with the pride of hope in the advancement of their children to material possessions, and the empty honors conferred by my uncle, the pope, you must know that with all my imperfections I am, in the current love of purity and goodness, free from my body’s instinctive taint328. Knowing my earnest yearning381 for purified worth, in my desire for the welfare of others, you will, I am sure, lend me your aid for the higher attainments achieved in realization by your primitive people for loving perception.”
This appeal of Idolisima received the sanction of our affections with a warmth of genial716 outflow confirmed in baptismal attestation717 from our eyes. The Doschessa in reciprocating718 the fond caresses of Idolisima said that she and her aunt had nobly sustained the venture, showing that with woman love’s perception, when free from selfishness, is in a measure independent of age, when subject to the constant lead of example. In closing it will be well to state that 251the union of Novuotus with Idolisima was consummated719 with her father’s consent. The event was celebrated by Penny Song, with an improvisation720 styled the Epoch721 Ardens, Long Bow assisting with a transposition of High Water to Fair Water. But from their lack of precedental knowledge pertaining722 to Manatitlan history, and of love independent of the body’s instinctive materialism723 for the bombastic724 usury725 of imagination in word portrayal, their poetical726 ovations727 would have been deemed tame unaided by their skillful rendition in the well timed measure of song with the instrumental accompaniment of zithern and gourd. This transcript728, of an event so varied in its bearings, will afford you a more correct insight into the condition of our Roman colonists, than tracings from historical records, and statistical729 accounts, of which you will be advised at our earliest leisure.
Titview.
Nota Bene.—Our wives have not been idle, but under the direction of Oluisandria have auramented many of the Giga women of Rome, who with silent example emulate730 the family of Indegatus.
At the conclusion of Titview’s letter, the Dosch stated that the initial voyagers of the second falcon era found the colonists of Constantinople and Jerusalem in a still more prosperous condition than those of Rome, and equally rejoiced in the fulfillment of expectant waiting. But as they presented the same characteristic features of dogmatic rule, with caste variations, having their origin in the degree of control exercised by individuals over their own habits, for the control of the masses, the opposition to colonistic example was in the main the same. “Now, in company of Mr. Welson, I will leave you to meditate441 upon the examples I have adduced of Giga and Animalculan humanity under the rule of instinctive habits 252and customs engendered731 from the unreason of the stomach in its control of the brain, until your letters arrive from the other side of the precedental gulph to strengthen the contrast between your past and present thoughts. In the meantime you can study, with our auramental aid, the habits of professional instinct cultivated by the adjunct members of the corps732, in adverse defiance733 of Heraclean example and our thought substitutions. Although formalistically influenced to habits of outward conformity, neither Dr. Baāhar or the curators of sound, and artist, have changed in thought from precedental routine; and in their present mood, would relate the events which have transpired734 as surface matters of fact, for publication, or scientific gossip, and the excitement of wonder and surprise in the gaping735 multitude who throng with open ears lyceums and public lecture rooms, for drum impressions. Your college and scientific professors can be truthfully likened to your railroad locomotives, which swiftly progress forwards and backwards736 on their rails, but once off their tracks are helpless, from their own resources, to move themselves or their trains. But with the stage gradations of instinct now open to your view, you can readily discover and test the animus source of present happiness with the realities of its impression as an assurance of immortality737.”
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adversary
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chicanery
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scoffing
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coffin
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hinds
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decided
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generosity
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proxy
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skull
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sable
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blanched
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proceedings
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prostrate
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accomplished
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supplication
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mishap
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variance
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throbs
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absolved
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contagious
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boisterous
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mettlesome
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impatience
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applied
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worthy
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fiery
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dreaded
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doomed
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catching
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slits
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dangling
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hisses
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discomfiture
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condemned
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infamy
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hacked
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apparently
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modesty
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jeers
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prodigal
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yearning
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abide
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profane
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muse
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embarrassment
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chagrin
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dismal
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joviality
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sanctuary
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immediate
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bantering
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clergy
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propriety
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surmounted
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renown
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adept
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chivalric
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gastronomic
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cuisine
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tremor
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baron
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countenance
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burlesque
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antagonism
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meditate
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superstition
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bias
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commingled
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inviolate
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exclamation
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concussions
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noisome
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sufficiently
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maxim
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obedience
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vault
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stimulated
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perseverance
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manly
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capabilities
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brutal
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probation
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admiration
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predilection
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fully
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obeisance
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plumes
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deign
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humble
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lashes
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dexterous
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remarkable
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mellowing
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| 软化，醇化 | |
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azure
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softening
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hue
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forth
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bespeaking
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emergence
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underlying
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cultivation
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preservation
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| n.保护，维护，保存，保留，保持 | |
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frankly
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delicacy
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transformation
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splendor
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| n.光彩；壮丽，华丽；显赫，辉煌 | |
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adoration
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| n.爱慕，崇拜 | |
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celebrated
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| adj.有名的，声誉卓著的 | |
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varied
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| adj.多样的，多变化的 | |
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adventurous
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recipient
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| a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器 | |
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emblematic
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| adj.象征的，可当标志的；象征性 | |
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supremacy
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vocation
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| n.职业，行业 | |
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firmament
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enjoyment
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| n.乐趣；享有；享用 | |
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extremities
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maiden
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overture
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strings
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rippling
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| 起涟漪的，潺潺流水般声音的 | |
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tributary
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merged
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pebbly
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| 多卵石的，有卵石花纹的 | |
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brook
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| n.小河，溪；v.忍受，容让 | |
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cascade
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| n.小瀑布，喷流；层叠；vi.成瀑布落下 | |
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onward
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| adj.向前的，前进的；adv.向前，前进，在先 | |
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harmonious
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| adj.和睦的，调和的，和谐的，协调的 | |
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gilded
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| a.镀金的，富有的 | |
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luscious
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| adj.美味的；芬芳的；肉感的，引与性欲的 | |
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sip
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| v.小口地喝，抿，呷；n.一小口的量 | |
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virgin
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| n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的 | |
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chaste
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| adj.贞洁的；有道德的；善良的；简朴的 | |
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overflowing
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| n. 溢出物,溢流 adj. 充沛的，充满的 动词overflow的现在分词形式 | |
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profligate
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| adj.行为不检的；n.放荡的人，浪子，肆意挥霍者 | |
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deviation
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| n.背离，偏离；偏差，偏向；离题 | |
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lamentation
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| n.悲叹，哀悼 | |
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defilement
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| n.弄脏，污辱，污秽 | |
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bard
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| n.吟游诗人 | |
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longings
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| 渴望，盼望( longing的名词复数 ) | |
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wailing
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| v.哭叫，哀号( wail的现在分词 )；沱 | |
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expressive
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perused
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attentively
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| adv.聚精会神地；周到地；谛；凝神 | |
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countenances
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| n.面容( countenance的名词复数 )；表情；镇静；道义支持 | |
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engrossed
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| adj.全神贯注的 | |
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voluptuous
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| adj.肉欲的，骄奢淫逸的 | |
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portrayal
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| n.饰演；描画 | |
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533
reproof
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| n.斥责，责备 | |
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534
replete
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| adj.饱满的，塞满的；n.贮蜜蚁 | |
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infamous
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| adj.声名狼藉的，臭名昭著的，邪恶的 | |
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sarcasm
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| n.讥讽，讽刺，嘲弄，反话 （adj.sarcastic） | |
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eloquent
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| adj.雄辩的，口才流利的；明白显示出的 | |
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lascivious
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| adj.淫荡的，好色的 | |
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enraptured
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| v.使狂喜( enrapture的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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pungency
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| n.（气味等的）刺激性；辣；（言语等的）辛辣；尖刻 | |
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addenda
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vapid
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| adj.无味的；无生气的 | |
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primitive
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| adj.原始的；简单的；n.原(始)人，原始事物 | |
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cadences
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| n.（声音的）抑扬顿挫( cadence的名词复数 )；节奏；韵律；调子 | |
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plaintive
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| adj.可怜的，伤心的 | |
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evoked
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| [医]诱发的 | |
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gourd
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| n.葫芦 | |
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depicted
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| 描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述 | |
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erratic
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| adj.古怪的，反复无常的，不稳定的 | |
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savage
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| adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人 | |
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mythical
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| adj.神话的；虚构的；想像的 | |
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rhythmic
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| adj.有节奏的，有韵律的 | |
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improvised
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| a.即席而作的,即兴的 | |
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554
abashed
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| adj.窘迫的，尴尬的v.使羞愧，使局促，使窘迫( abash的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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beckoned
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| v.（用头或手的动作）示意，召唤( beckon的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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royalty
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| n.皇家，皇族 | |
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appeased
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| 安抚，抚慰( appease的过去式和过去分词 )； 绥靖（满足另一国的要求以避免战争） | |
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558
murmurs
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| n.低沉、连续而不清的声音( murmur的名词复数 )；低语声；怨言；嘀咕 | |
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disdain
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| n.鄙视，轻视；v.轻视，鄙视，不屑 | |
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chivalry
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| n.骑士气概，侠义；（男人）对女人彬彬有礼，献殷勤 | |
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exalt
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| v.赞扬，歌颂，晋升，提升 | |
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562
maternity
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| n.母性，母道，妇产科病房；adj.孕妇的，母性的 | |
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glossing
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| v.注解( gloss的现在分词 )；掩饰（错误）；粉饰；把…搪塞过去 | |
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vices
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| 缺陷( vice的名词复数 )； 恶习； 不道德行为； 台钳 | |
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565
consolation
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| n.安慰，慰问 | |
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sincerity
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| n.真诚，诚意；真实 | |
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567
purport
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steadfast
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| adj.固定的，不变的，不动摇的；忠实的；坚贞不移的 | |
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adherence
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| n.信奉，依附，坚持，固着 | |
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570
promising
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| adj.有希望的，有前途的 | |
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distinguished
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| adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的 | |
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tangible
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| adj.有形的，可触摸的，确凿的，实际的 | |
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motive
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| n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的 | |
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predilections
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| n.偏爱，偏好，嗜好( predilection的名词复数 ) | |
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contemplate
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| vt.盘算，计议；周密考虑；注视，凝视 | |
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abject
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| adj.极可怜的，卑屈的 | |
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577
reptile
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| n.爬行动物；两栖动物 | |
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578
amorous
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| adj.多情的；有关爱情的 | |
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refinement
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| n.文雅；高尚；精美；精制；精炼 | |
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580
inveterate
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| adj.积习已深的，根深蒂固的 | |
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antagonisms
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| 对抗，敌对( antagonism的名词复数 ) | |
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necessitated
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| 使…成为必要，需要( necessitate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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odds
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| n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别 | |
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serried
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| adj.拥挤的；密集的 | |
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foes
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| 敌人，仇敌( foe的名词复数 ) | |
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586
opposition
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| n.反对，敌对 | |
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587
lure
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| n.吸引人的东西，诱惑物；vt.引诱，吸引 | |
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peals
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| n.（声音大而持续或重复的）洪亮的响声( peal的名词复数 )；隆隆声；洪亮的钟声；钟乐v.（使）（钟等）鸣响，（雷等）发出隆隆声( peal的第三人称单数 ) | |
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perverse
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| adj.刚愎的；坚持错误的，行为反常的 | |
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590
tints
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| 色彩( tint的名词复数 )； 带白的颜色； （淡色）染发剂； 痕迹 | |
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hazy
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| adj.有薄雾的，朦胧的；不肯定的，模糊的 | |
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twilight
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| n.暮光，黄昏；暮年，晚期，衰落时期 | |
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revolving
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| adj.旋转的，轮转式的；循环的v.（使）旋转( revolve的现在分词 )；细想 | |
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discretion
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| n.谨慎；随意处理 | |
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595
obstructed
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| 阻塞( obstruct的过去式和过去分词 )； 堵塞； 阻碍； 阻止 | |
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596
deference
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| n.尊重，顺从；敬意 | |
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597
reverence
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| n.敬畏，尊敬，尊严；Reverence:对某些基督教神职人员的尊称；v.尊敬，敬畏，崇敬 | |
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598
victorious
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| adj.胜利的，得胜的 | |
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599
rupture
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| n.破裂；(关系的)决裂；v.(使)破裂 | |
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joints
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| 接头( joint的名词复数 )； 关节； 公共场所（尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所） （非正式）； 一块烤肉 （英式英语） | |
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601
wager
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| n.赌注；vt.押注，打赌 | |
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602
wagers
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| n.赌注，用钱打赌( wager的名词复数 )v.在（某物）上赌钱，打赌( wager的第三人称单数 )；保证，担保 | |
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603
bantered
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| v.开玩笑，说笑，逗乐( banter的过去式和过去分词 )；（善意地）取笑，逗弄 | |
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604
banished
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| v.放逐，驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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605
talismanic
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| adj.护身符的，避邪的 | |
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606
deferred
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| adj.延期的，缓召的v.拖延，延缓，推迟( defer的过去式和过去分词 )；服从某人的意愿，遵从 | |
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607
gnawed
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| 咬( gnaw的过去式和过去分词 )； （长时间） 折磨某人； （使）苦恼； （长时间）危害某事物 | |
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608
assailed
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| v.攻击( assail的过去式和过去分词 )；困扰；质问；毅然应对 | |
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609
vociferous
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| adj.喧哗的，大叫大嚷的 | |
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610
partisans
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| 游击队员( partisan的名词复数 )； 党人； 党羽； 帮伙 | |
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611
brutality
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| n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮 | |
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612
adroitly
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| adv.熟练地，敏捷地 | |
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613
Partisanship
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| n. 党派性, 党派偏见 | |
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614
interfered
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| v.干预( interfere的过去式和过去分词 )；调停；妨碍；干涉 | |
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615
antagonistic
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| adj.敌对的 | |
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616
acumen
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| n.敏锐，聪明 | |
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617
analyzing
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| v.分析；分析( analyze的现在分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析n.分析 | |
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618
discordant
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| adj.不调和的 | |
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619
sketch
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| n.草图；梗概；素描；v.素描；概述 | |
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620
lank
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| adj.瘦削的；稀疏的 | |
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621
bluffness
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| 率直，坦率，直峭 | |
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622
attained
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| （通常经过努力）实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 )； 达到； 获得； 达到（某年龄、水平、状况） | |
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dominant
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| adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因 | |
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624
tithes
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| n.（宗教捐税）什一税，什一的教区税，小部分( tithe的名词复数 ) | |
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bellowing
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| v.发出吼叫声，咆哮（尤指因痛苦）( bellow的现在分词 )；（愤怒地）说出（某事），大叫 | |
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626
gibes
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| vi.嘲笑，嘲弄（gibe的第三人称单数形式） | |
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627
vanquished
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| v.征服( vanquish的过去式和过去分词 )；战胜；克服；抑制 | |
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628
debtors
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| n.债务人，借方( debtor的名词复数 ) | |
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629
evasions
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| 逃避( evasion的名词复数 )； 回避； 遁辞； 借口 | |
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630
repudiated
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| v.（正式地）否认( repudiate的过去式和过去分词 )；拒绝接受；拒绝与…往来；拒不履行（法律义务） | |
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631
forfeited
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| （因违反协议、犯规、受罚等）丧失，失去( forfeit的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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632
concise
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| adj.简洁的，简明的 | |
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633
perspiration
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| n.汗水；出汗 | |
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634
withheld
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| withhold过去式及过去分词 | |
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635
ferocious
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| adj.凶猛的，残暴的，极度的，十分强烈的 | |
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636
ferment
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| vt.使发酵；n./vt.（使）激动，（使）动乱 | |
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exhausted
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| adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的 | |
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638
pending
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| prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的 | |
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639
wagering
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| v.在（某物）上赌钱，打赌( wager的现在分词 )；保证，担保 | |
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640
remitting
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| v.免除（债务），宽恕( remit的现在分词 )；使某事缓和；寄回，传送 | |
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641
pecuniary
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| adj.金钱的；金钱上的 | |
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642
alleged
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| a.被指控的，嫌疑的 | |
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643
woes
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| 困境( woe的名词复数 )； 悲伤； 我好苦哇； 某人就要倒霉 | |
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644
purgatorial
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| adj.炼狱的，涤罪的 | |
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645
monks
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| n.修道士，僧侣( monk的名词复数 ) | |
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646
sobbing
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| <主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的 | |
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647
wails
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| 痛哭，哭声( wail的名词复数 ) | |
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648
clouts
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| n.猛打( clout的名词复数 )；敲打；（尤指政治上的）影响；（用手或硬物的）击v.（尤指用手）猛击，重打( clout的第三人称单数 ) | |
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649
clout
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| n.用手猛击；权力，影响力 | |
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650
ecclesiastics
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| n.神职者，教会，牧师( ecclesiastic的名词复数 ) | |
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651
liberated
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| a.无拘束的，放纵的 | |
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652
apprehensions
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| 疑惧 | |
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653
anathemas
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| n.（天主教的）革出教门( anathema的名词复数 )；诅咒；令人极其讨厌的事；被基督教诅咒的人或事 | |
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654
followers
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| 追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件 | |
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655
prestigious
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| adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的 | |
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656
mumbling
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| 含糊地说某事，叽咕，咕哝( mumble的现在分词 ) | |
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657
cant
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| n.斜穿，黑话，猛扔 | |
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658
extricate
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| v.拯救，救出；解脱 | |
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659
restrictions
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| 约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则） | |
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660
dictate
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| v.口授；(使)听写；指令，指示，命令 | |
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infringed
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| v.违反（规章等）( infringe的过去式和过去分词 )；侵犯（某人的权利）；侵害（某人的自由、权益等） | |
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662
adherents
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| n.支持者，拥护者( adherent的名词复数 )；党羽；徒子徒孙 | |
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663
destitute
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| adj.缺乏的；穷困的 | |
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664
gratitude
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| adj.感激，感谢 | |
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665
reciprocation
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| n.互换 | |
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666
censor
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| n./vt.审查，审查员；删改 | |
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667
censorial
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| 监察官的，审查员的 | |
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arduous
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| adj.艰苦的，费力的，陡峭的 | |
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fecundity
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| n.生产力；丰富 | |
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propensities
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| n.倾向，习性( propensity的名词复数 ) | |
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inauguration
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| n.开幕、就职典礼 | |
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672
binds
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| v.约束( bind的第三人称单数 )；装订；捆绑；（用长布条）缠绕 | |
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invoking
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| v.援引( invoke的现在分词 )；行使（权利等）；祈求救助；恳求 | |
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674
blessings
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| n.（上帝的）祝福( blessing的名词复数 )；好事；福分；因祸得福 | |
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675
perquisites
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| n.（工资以外的）财务补贴( perquisite的名词复数 )；额外收入；（随职位而得到的）好处；利益 | |
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676
embarrassments
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| n.尴尬( embarrassment的名词复数 )；难堪；局促不安；令人难堪或耻辱的事 | |
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arrogant
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| adj.傲慢的，自大的 | |
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678
lair
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| n.野兽的巢穴；躲藏处 | |
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679
dispersed
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| adj. 被驱散的, 被分散的, 散布的 | |
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680
apprise
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| vt.通知，告知 | |
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681
descended
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| a.为...后裔的，出身于...的 | |
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682
dungeons
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| n.地牢( dungeon的名词复数 ) | |
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asylum
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| n.避难所，庇护所，避难 | |
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684
guardians
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| 监护人( guardian的名词复数 )； 保护者，维护者 | |
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685
exculpated
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| v.开脱，使无罪( exculpate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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686
abiding
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| adj.永久的，持久的，不变的 | |
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687
dictated
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marital
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approbation
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vindicate
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conformity
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guardianship
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enlisting
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bereavement
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solace
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endearments
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caresses
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fixed
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imploring
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betrothed
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consultation
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advisors
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throng
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profuse
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complimentary
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heresy
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| n.异端邪说；异教 | |
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redressed
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smelt
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contention
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brute
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volition
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perpetuated
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likeness
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| n.相像，相似（之处） | |
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genial
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attestation
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reciprocating
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| adj.往复的；来回的；交替的；摆动的v.报答，酬答( reciprocate的现在分词 )；（机器的部件）直线往复运动 | |
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consummated
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improvisation
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| n.即席演奏(或演唱)；即兴创作 | |
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epoch
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pertaining
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materialism
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| n.［哲］唯物主义，唯物论；物质至上 | |
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bombastic
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| adj.夸夸其谈的，言过其实的 | |
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usury
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| n.高利贷 | |
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poetical
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| adj.似诗人的；诗一般的；韵文的；富有诗意的 | |
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ovations
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transcript
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| n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书 | |
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statistical
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emulate
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engendered
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corps
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defiance
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| n.挑战，挑衅，蔑视，违抗 | |
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transpired
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gaping
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backwards
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immortality
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| n.不死，不朽 | |
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