Difference between revisions of "A hundreadfilled unleavenweight"

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* '''unleavened bread:''' ''leaven'' means to cause to rise. Unleavened bread is the food of Passover, and of Catholic communion hosts
 
* '''unleavened bread:''' ''leaven'' means to cause to rise. Unleavened bread is the food of Passover, and of Catholic communion hosts
  
* '''hundredweight''' → an ancient Chinese scholar read “a hundredweight [of books] daily”
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* '''hundredweight''' → Crow: ''The Story of Confucius, Master Kung'' 43: (in ancient China) 'Most of the writing done was laboriously inscribed with a stylus on slips of bamboo... a book the size of the volume now in the reader's hands would fill a small truck. It was said of one industrious scholar that he read 'a hundredweight daily''
  
 
* '''read'''
 
* '''read'''

Latest revision as of 17:25, 29 December 2019

  • a hundred-and-eleven: 111
  • dread-filled: cf. dreadful
  • unleavened bread: leaven means to cause to rise. Unleavened bread is the food of Passover, and of Catholic communion hosts
  • hundredweight → Crow: The Story of Confucius, Master Kung 43: (in ancient China) 'Most of the writing done was laboriously inscribed with a stylus on slips of bamboo... a book the size of the volume now in the reader's hands would fill a small truck. It was said of one industrious scholar that he read 'a hundredweight daily
  • read