Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having their great home market destroyed through the dumping upon it of a flood of foreign products. . . . As a source of revenue the tariff surpassed all expectations in producing an annual return of the unprecedented sum of about $500,000,000. . . . "The people have never come to a full realization of the importance of the Washington Conference. It produced the one effective agreement among the great Powers in all the history of civilization for relieving the people of the earth from the enormous burden of maintaining competitive naval armaments. ... A policy was adopted which was more than revolutionary...
...Republic of Honduras is enjoying relative calm, and the Provisional Government has the situation, created by the treason of Gen. Gregorio Ferrera under full control. . . . The commander of the Government troops has been ordered to pursue Ferrera, who has gone into hiding in the mountains. The War Tribunal has been instructed to institute proceedings against him, as he is charged with treason against his country...
Their son was Orion. Lirazel had wanted to call him "an elvish name full of wonder and made of syllables like birds' cries at night." But Alvaric was ten years older when he returned from Elfland and took seriously the admonition of the Freer of 'Orion," Christom. He only compromised on "Orion," a name of the heathenesse and, with time, grew more set in his mind against all things elvish...
...hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer's night in a wood, with a strange moon shining, the air full of madness and mystery; and, lurking close but invisible, things beyond the mystery...
...Mirror, has described his personal appearance thus : "Of more than average height, a frame that ambles along carelessly, with toes kicked up in process of walking-movements that range from slowness of contemplation to mercurial quickness of sudden resolution-on broad shoulders, a round head, marked by an oppressively full brow which overarches the face like a crag-eyes, of gooseberry size and color, which roam restlessly or assume a fixed expression as if looking into the secrets of Fate. His complexion is sallow and leatherlike, and his face is shot through with lines, lines which he will never permit...