Word: avaunt
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...looking for human sympathy from me. I am your very good friend, but hard as nails." Busy too. "No," he wrote to Alice Lockett, a non-bluestocking who wanted a date in a week in which he had to do three articles and two lectures. "See you this week! Avaunt, sorceress: not this month -not until next July. Remember my pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss [but] beware. When all love has gone out of me, I am remorseless: I hurl the truth about like destroying...
...Wherfor have Sir Gawaine and his brethren sworne a greate vow to journee to the Holly Woode, and onloose the fayr Colhumbia, allso to slay the dreadfull dragoun Metr Ogol Dwynma Yer, and anie other of his breede yt they shal finde. Avaunt! eftsoons bee al mal engine full awroke...
...What! Oh, I'm just Vag." O, treachery! Fly, Vag, fly, fly, fly. Avaunt ye. Tis he--cruel murderer of innocent men and children. But was this perfectly normal, mild young man the bloody tyrant who had dinned Shakespeare's powerful, tragic lines into the ears of the sceptical and untutored younger generation for the last three hours? who had boomed it and shouted it over their wisecracks and embarrassed titterings until he finally wooed their interest by pure lung power? Once wooed, Shakespeare's own magic had a chance to function, and had won the evening. But how could...
...Reason, avaunt! I only state...
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