a recipe for disaster
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Sunday, October 16
an incomplete list of non-hyphenated, non-abbreviated, possibly obsolete words that occur once during the first act of four shakespearean comedies:
unnoted
grounded
share
allayments
feated
doctrine
default
enchantingly
languishing
bids
flattering
obedience
neighbor
repair
forbear
adjudged
justly
rounds
underhand
remorse
amaze
hellish
unlearned
slip
corporal
expire
sithence
arbitrement
reviving
outlustres
smell
greatness
wills
reserve
obedient
bargain
gnat
leans
undergo
behold
burden
physician
guests
rescue
tie
syracusa
coupled
inches
mature
poisons
lame
proclamation
lamb
top
instruction
businesses
humbled
oceans
carcass
sudden
solace
ponds
weigh
tottering
holla
instructions
respect
discovered
invited
credence
employ
hazarded
imposed
payment
widow
cornets
witness
spring
frank
repairs
urged
disaster
contend
contemn
cordial
carelessly
venge
senoys
chatter
appetite
sacked
eighteen
breaking
suited
wednesday
levied
human
sailors
suspect
tickle
tub
mutest
tenderness
inherit
flat
talents
incessant
politic
military
respects
thereupon
physic
amain
lion
thinking
fled
mocked
debtor
animals
pleasant
confirmation
burns
beholders
heritage
evils
laborers
fishers
grafted
misconstrues
goldenly
likelihoods
glory
persecuted
brooch
warlike
chastely
taxation
highways
starve
forces
learn
reward
forced
plausive
unlike
balance
comfortable
abroad
careful
dulcet
maw
adoption
evening
petty
imagination
encountered
liegers
ramps
suitor
ear
clearness
forwardness
servants
sleep
choke
frantic
storms
troy
trow
principal
until
lawn
sheets
blowers
orleans
greece
unspeakable
bestow
methought
highest
leagues
sickness
countryman
jaques
hiding
foiled
seized
chose
goes
grieved
simpleness
grieves
mated
allowed
pigeons
leg
gloss
levity
aloud
excellence
according
rancorous
self
beheld
suffice
tied
glove
jolly
blinking
drugs
lovest
million
blame
heels
loyalty
pour
modest
excessive
puttock
heavenly
tomboys
sportive
lightens
fishermen
owing
cry
exploit
preferment
thrust
dotards
render
valued
values
camest
robin
discretion
ended
sports
supposed
adore
cousins
presence
weld
material
supplied
crept
publish
decree
kingdom
expound
captain
babe
low
adieu
fairer
gossips
unkept
convince
endowments
waiting
vexation
lying
copy
cheerful
perfumes
rigorous
dutchman
seat
sear
hung
garbage
manage
lungs
shout
intents
notwithstanding
provision
inherited
task
seal
writing
entrap
horses
commonwealth
gentility
flood
forsooth
condemn
consist
hogs
revolt
applications
ranged
cowards
epidaurus
schools
stubbornnest
covenants
cut
pupil
extraordinary
greet
unsuitable
dozen
articles
portion
clean
clear
short
inseparable
dungeon
empire
holds
recorded
unthankfulness
greets
wild
sixth
provoked
puppies
convey
stroke
sufficient
otherwise
unpeople
burdened
sojourn
constant
law
calendar
tall
coat
predominant
flock
implies
emperor
prefer
strove
names
items
subjection
bounds
creeps
motive
hood
lasted
quicklier
appointed
stinking
waved
incur
bird
bars
recoil
patient
chiefly
depart
linen
fondness
divers
wide
shown
host
lordship
plainings
bark
married
particular
wishing
moderate
profit
vow
fine
pulled
gazing
minute
unjust
caution
allow
west
skillful
wore
worthiness
threw
wickedness
colors
confections
wounds
mines
plentifully
answers
grant
constancy
amends
cares
underminers
clew
hugeness
delays
clownish
stolen
modesty
giving
judge
diseased
minds
wanted
wept
durst
assail
vomit
dispersed
wholesome
table
guilty
fain
compare
contempt
wend
unseduced
satiate
stirs
doubling
hundred
excludes
unsatisfied
harvest
drops
grecians
waters
duly
lineaments
marts
haply
definite
bitterness
movers
foreign
thoroughfare
inform
trodden
certainty
demonstrate
unparagoned
fallen
estates
dissolved
livelihood
penitent
earthquake
faces
baseness
gladly
adorer
requite
familiar
surprised
factor
grossly
dunghills
bounty
wheel
spectacles
villains
prick
price
reveller
tempered
peradventure
undermine
presumptuous
prejudicates
resistance
greetings
assure
knowingly
themselves
hidden
intent
growing
perforce
commanded
trusty
receive
drives
driven
war
wax
stiff
called
cowslips
decreed
speedily
swans
patiently
birthright
partition
subtle
stepmothers
remains
negligence
residence
flight
knaveries
protect
closet
meaner
manifest
severed
beastly
unseen
abundance
austria
bondage
traffic
sitting
usurping
morrow
third
measured
curs
says
martial
curd
bounden
french
receipt
traders
chaffless
arrival
proposes
disdains
liberties
amplest
employed
experience
endows
wonderfully
gallian
entreaties
england
fits
smoky
safely
sorrowest
weepings
barricado
purchase
fittest
abate
salt
murders
neat
estimations
bracelet
sale
servitude
proved
maids
passage
sharpness
close
taste
knavery
losing
stall
breed
cheaters
lengthening
stain
desired
barnes
wet
changest
stairs
oil
thigh
smoke
apart
once
trifle
bleak
assailants
adventured
higher
threatening
arch
thief
eke
greatest
judgments
haggish
infinitely
witches
tradition
designs
credible
quench
hawking
increased
woe
thick
injuries
persuaded
ranks
mark
coward
unsought
dream
petticoats
acquit
concord
beach
arched
belong
obscured
procure
reading
successfully
chain
process
didst
wrought
confidence
already
humorous
vent
male
silenced
jars
smother
purposed
casual
steely
kisses
approaches
shield
mightst
prize
start
unmuzzle
soldiers
teeth
random
stalling
charitable
outstood
arrived
fistula
sacrifice
blessings
likewise
reigns
err
seasons
effect
consort
attire
capitol
mistresses
obscuring
famous
freely
housewife
mouth
chins
evermore
unhappy
misery
ignorant
slowness
escapes
counsellor
fairs
adopted
misdoubt
shores
reflect
quickly
equally
sticks
mount
admit
learning
borne
anatomize
meditating
adventure
substance
chase
disloyal
ascribe
pastime
travels
discipled
entirely
vexations
meanly
communicate
pleaseth
jugglers
entertainment
daily
contention
vapors
below
allows
rate
paths
sprung
noon
societies
dullness
restore
prodigal
capon
overlooking
faculties
strucken
proceed
fraught
hinds
penury
contains
apply
midst
unclean
Saturday, July 17
Thursday, August 6
Two Sewing
by Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
The wind is sewing with needles of rain.
With shining needles of rain...
Sunday, July 26
Friday, July 25
A Cup of Coffee at Spring's Diner
snow leans against April's gust,
drifts onto a tree's coat of pink blossoms.
a woman swirls granular lies into a cup of milky truth,
sips and sings to the fogged window, quietly
daydreaming of fresh flowers to weave
with arthritic fingers and faded curls of gold.
a man's drink is plain, bitter and piping hot.
to drink it down, he burns lips and tongue and the roof of the mouth.
flecks of ice vanish into the grey hairs grown out of cheeks and chin.
his beard thaws like dead wheat.
drifts onto a tree's coat of pink blossoms.
a woman swirls granular lies into a cup of milky truth,
sips and sings to the fogged window, quietly
daydreaming of fresh flowers to weave
with arthritic fingers and faded curls of gold.
a man's drink is plain, bitter and piping hot.
to drink it down, he burns lips and tongue and the roof of the mouth.
flecks of ice vanish into the grey hairs grown out of cheeks and chin.
his beard thaws like dead wheat.
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