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''' → | + | * '''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 16:25, 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
