Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?


Hamlet: Words, words, words.


Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2



Saturday, February 20, 2010

Redolent

redolent: [red-l-uhnt] adj. exuding fragrance; suggestive; reminiscent.


The berry ripened keeps the rude
And racy flavour of the wood.
And you that loved the empty plain
All redolent of wind and rain.

---Robert Louis Stevenson
IX. To K. De M.

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