"... _in highn-sight_, that source is still around ..."
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 1 18:38:53 UTC 2010
Apparently, for some speakers, _hind_" is just noise forming part of a
fixed, meaninigless, phrase tossed into a sentence for purposes of
introducing an element of pswaydo-elegance into one's prose.
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain
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