Word: flourishings
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...felt better. At Mount Auburn Street he stopped, and with a flourish flipped his cigarette into the gutter. He turned into Mike's Club, dropped his bag and climbed onto a stool. "Chocolate frappe, please...
...signed A.P.H. with a flourish. If Manchester was any measure, Herbert would have one more bell to his jester's cap when the show opened in London this summer...
...Harvard Illustrated had been originated with rather few illustrations, but when it was revived as a twice-weekly 20 years, later, improved photographic techniques had made it popular enough to be a successful advertising medium--as long as the Booming Twenties boomed. It came in for another brief flourish in 1940, but quickly returned to oblivion...
...plenty, and all my paths drop fatness. My face should be smeared with the oil of rejoicing. . . .My feet should be dipped in butter; I should sit under my fig-tree with my heel on the neck of my enemy, and my eyes stand out with fatness; I should flourish as the Cedar of Lebanon that bringeth forth fruit...
...stuff: the detective who leaves his bride on their wedding night, the client who suspects that the suicide is really murder, the wife whose hobby is love affairs, the mysterious house guest and, finally, the newly invented explosive. But it is served up with such a flourish of fresh parsley that you'd hardly recognize it as warmed-over hash...