Author: Justin Silvers
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Thunderbolts and lightning!
What is your favorite type of weather? No thunderstorms in my sketch, just heavy rain. I have memories of several ⛈ thunderstorms though. Years ago I… Thunderbolts and lightning!
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Daily prompt
If you could have something named after you, what would it be? I wouldn’t mind a plant being named after me. But what if they chose a weed? But then … Daily prompt
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‘to go (and) jump in(to) the lake’: meaning and origin
to go away and stop being a nuisance—chiefly used in the imperative as a contemptuous dismissal—USA, 1883—the image is of somebody jumping into a … ‘to go (and) jump in(to) the lake’: meaning and origin
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‘to go for the jugular’: meaning and origin
to criticise or attack somebody aggressively or decisively; to target an adversary’s weakest or most vulnerable point—USA, 1879—the image is of … ‘to go for the jugular’: meaning and origin
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Gemstones
“I’ll just step over to Green Gables after tea and find out from Marilla where he’s gone and why,” the worthy woman finally concluded. “He doesn’t generally go to town this time of year and he never visits; if he’d run out of turnip seed he wouldn’t dress up and take the buggy to go…
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Fossils
She was sitting there one afternoon in early June. The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
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Etcetera
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.
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