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  • 21Shamefaced — Shame faced , a. [For shamefast; AS. scamf[ae]st. See {Shame}, n., and {Fast} firm.] Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. [1913 Webster] Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people s prise. Dryden. [1913 Webster]… …

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  • 22Shamefaced — Shame faced , a. [For shamefast; AS. scamf[ae]st. See {Shame}, n., and {Fast} firm.] Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. [1913 Webster] Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people s prise. Dryden. [1913 Webster]… …

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  • 23Shamefacedness — Shamefaced Shame faced , a. [For shamefast; AS. scamf[ae]st. See {Shame}, n., and {Fast} firm.] Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. [1913 Webster] Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people s prise. Dryden. [1913 …

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  • 24ness — ness·ber·ry; ness·ler·iza·tion; ness·ler·ize; ness·ler s; new·fan·gled·ness; new·ness; news·i·ness; nice·ness; nig·gard·li·ness; nig·gard·ness; nigh·ness; nip·pi·ness; no·ble·ness; nois·i·ness; non·cha·lant·ness; north·er·li·ness; north·ness;… …

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  • 25Calappa (crab) — Taxobox name = Calappa image caption = Calappa calappa regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Malacostraca ordo = Decapoda infraordo = Brachyura superfamilia = Calappoidea familia = Calappidae genus = Calappa genus authority = Weber,… …

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  • 26ZEALOTS AND SICARII — Introduction This article deals not only with the group of fighters for the freedom of Israel known from josephus as the Zealots, but includes in its survey other groups with similar aims, particularly the Sicarii. Judea differed from the other… …

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  • 27shamefaced — shamefacedly /shaym fay sid lee, shaym fayst lee/, adv. shamefacedness, n. /shaym fayst /, adj. 1. modest or bashful. 2. showing shame: shamefaced apologies. [1545 55; alter. of SHAMEFAST by folk etym.; see SHAME, FACED] * * * …

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  • 28Desolation Angels — by Jack Kerouac (1965)    Ellis Amburn, Jack Kerouac’s last editor, called Desolation Angels Kerouac’s “lost masterpiece, the final flowering of his great creative period in the fifties: the true voice of Kerouac.” Dan Wakefield, writing for The… …

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  • 29Calappa hepatica — Taxobox | name = Calappa hepatica regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Crustacea classis = Malacostraca ordo = Decapoda infraordo = Brachyura familia = Calappidae genus = Calappa species = C. hepatica binomial = Calappa hepatica… …

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  • 30Calumny of Apelles (Botticelli) — Infobox Painting| title=The Calumny of Apelles artist=Sandro Botticelli year=1494 1495 type=Tempera on panel height=62 width=91 city=Florence museum=Uffizi The Calumny of Apelles (Italian: La Calunnia di Apelle) is a painting by the Italian… …

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