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  1. hilt
    the handle of a sword or dagger
    I live three lives of mortal men, so great a miracle as yonder hilt.
  2. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
    ..brandished him three times, and drew him under in the meer.
  3. ridge
    a long narrow natural elevation or striation
    But the other swiftly strode from ridge to ridge.
  4. goad
    stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
    His own thought drove him like a goad.
  5. clash
    crash together with violent impact
    Dry clashed his harness in the icy caves.
  6. harness
    control and direct with or as if by reins
  7. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
    and barren chasms, and all to left and right
  8. clang
    a loud resonant repeating noise
    The bare black cliff clanged round him.
  9. chafe
    warm by rubbing, as with the hands
    She chafed his hands
  10. stripe
    a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
    ..dropping bitters tears against his brow striped with dark blood
  11. parch
    cause to wither from exposure to heat
    ..a rising sun high from the dais-thrown- were parched with dust
  12. clotted
    thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps
    ..clotted into points and hanging loose, mixed with the knightly growth that fringed his lips
  13. lance
    a long pointed rod used as a weapon
    Not like that Arthur who, with lance in rest,from spur to plum a start of tournament, shot thro the lists at Camelot
  14. fringed
    having edges irregularly and finely slashed
    He fringed his lips.
  15. slashed
    patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes
  16. wrought
    shaped to fit by altering the contours of a pliable mass
    More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
  17. hull
    dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
    he stood revolving many memories, till the hull looked one black dot against the verge of dawn
  18. wailing
    loud cries made while weeping
    ..and on the meer the wailing died away.
  19. smoulder
    burn slowly and without a flame
    ..drove his heel into the smouldered log
  20. peal
    a deep prolonged sound
    ...a hundred bells began to peal...
Created on 四月 19, 2013

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