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Word: divinest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost, David kneels, chafes the seeming corpse's slender, blue-veined wrists, and quite disregarding the tempest, whispers long, soulful entreaties that the visitor return to life. At length the angel's eyes, of divinest cerulean blue, open, and in accents of which the elegance is matched only by their incongruousness in the midst of a hurricane, a cultivated voice expresses heartfelt appreciation for timely succor under discommoding circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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