August 2010
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Rifle - Alela Diane
Dictionary Definition I
sothebrightside:
Vellicate; v.
To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
Thus, if you vellicate the throat with a feather, nausea is produced; if you wound it with a penknife, pain is induced, but not sickness.
Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Volume 1
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
Alan Bennett, The History Boys: A Play
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“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.” -Neil Gaiman
