And there are words not made with lungs. The first week of the new year is going to be an eponym week - a week of words coined after real or fictional people. Let's start with Benedick, a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. It's that they can't see the problem. The frontispieces used for the conteuses' tales, then, usually represent them as sibyls, or aristocratic story-tellers, or as Greek goddesses, not as spinning peasant women.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. L peccatum, fr. neut. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Angela Carter's reconstructed readerVol. As with most picaros, part of the appeal of this champagne-guzzling, bawdy entrepreneur is her ability to survive cruel economic and social conditions.