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The same is true of the prose version of "The Fly and the Wagon" that appeared in The Flowers of Fable (New York, 1833). [27] Claimed there to be translated from the Dutch, that too mixes Abstemius with La Fontaine and culminates in a horse killing the fly with a switch of its tail.
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The novelist H. E. Bates described the rapid, agile flight of dragonflies in his 1937 nonfiction book [9] Down the River: [10] I saw, once, an endless procession, just over an area of water-lilies, of small sapphire dragonflies, a continuous play of blue gauze over the snowy flowers above the sun-glassy water.
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The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
1935 – A Full Moon in March, poems [2] 1937 – A Vision B, nonfiction, a much revised edition of the original, which appeared in 1925; reissued with minor changes in 1956, and with further changes in 1962 [2] 1937 – Essays 1931 to 1936 [2] 1937 – Broadsides: New Irish & English Songs, edited by Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley [8]
Complementary antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite but whose meanings do not lie on a continuous spectrum (push, pull). Relational antonyms are word pairs where opposite makes sense only in the context of the relationship between the two meanings (teacher, pupil). These more restricted meanings may not apply in all scholarly ...