dark a arc sticks twigs, sift

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twigs ten blind bones, sift

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sift


I struck him twice, and twice crying out he fell. When he was down I struck him a third time, in thanks and reverence to Zeus the lord of the dead, and as he died he spattered me with the dark red and violent driven rain of bitter savored blood to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers of God in the springtime of buds. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon)

green
vagaries

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meteors, caves, graves clay

maelstrom

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willow, sirrah millstone

porphyry, porphyrogene

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Niobe, orrery Florentine

chorus, plesiosaur

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horse

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horse coteries

promissory umbra, ferrous

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cestus


Here the executioner takes on the airs of a victim. But you know what to believe. (Claude Cahun, Unavowed Confessions)