Dante wrote:
PHINS wrote:
Ebullient
Scrimp
Donative
Baldachin
Whet
Haecceity
Contumelious
Stele
Whelm
Navarin
Also known as: Mostly a list of words no normal person would ever use.
Except Stephen Donaldson. I expect all of those words to appear in one sentence in one of his works.
It was likely taken from the story of the bishop examining his young orchard.
The ebullient bishop, who had scrimped and obtained a donative baldachin, was whelmed in considering the haecceity of the stele of his pear tree's becoming a bole, and the thought of its fruit whet his appetite for some of the navarin being prepared by his contumelious chef.
I know -- too much time on my hands now that there's no NTN site within 2 hours' drive!
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