How beautiful it was when the sun shone
And I walked with you,my dear husband, through the gardens.
How happy I was to sit with you by the lake,
to hear the water from the fountain splash.
It’s our our favourite music now we cannot visit the sea
To hear the tide rush in,then fall sucking on the shingley beach.
But I see it in my minds eye.
Aldeburgh,the fishing boats go out at sunrise.
I awoke early one morning ,saw the sun across the sea
and the boats setting out in the soft light.
Dunwich,the heath filled with birds
the cliff and the beach where sometimes one can find marble
from one of the many churches washed away by the encroaching sea.
then Southwold,the marsh so quiet I heard crickets.
We went across the Blyth in the rowing boat
And saw the place from which our picture of Walberswick was painted…
If only life could be captured,slowed, for a few minutes
for us to receive the beauty and hear the sound of the sea
The everlasting music of the heart
Day: January 12, 2016
Egregious
egregious
[ih-gree-juh s, -jee-uh s]
Examples Word Origin
adjective
1.
extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant:
an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.
Synonyms: gross, outrageous, notorious, shocking.
Antonyms: tolerable, moderate, minor, unnoticeable.
2.
Archaic. distinguished or eminent.
Origin of egregious Expand
Latin
1525-15351525-35; < Latin ēgregius preeminent, equivalent to ē- e-1+ greg-, stem of grēx flock + -ius adj. suffix; see -ous
Related forms
egregiously, adverb
egregiousness, noun
nonegregious, adjective
nonegregiously, adverb
nonegregiousness, noun
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Examples from the Web for egregious Expand
Contemporary Examples
But the most egregious windfall was the $400 million gain racked up by Third Point Capital.
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April 1, 2013
The bad-boy tennis star, now 60, lets us know that most of the stories of his egregious behavior are true.
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May 13, 2013
On Meet the Press, the bank’s CEO admitted his company’s “ egregious ” mistake and expressed his desire to clear up any wrongdoing.
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May 12, 2012
Regardless, she’s phenomenal, and it’s egregious not to give her the Best Actress trophy, let alone not to even nominate her.
The Enraging Emmy Nominations: 20 Snubs and Surprises
Kevin Fallon
July 9, 2014
After von Schirach glossed over his egregious past, Frost asked him if there was anything that he regretted.
‘A Fiery Tribune’
Clive Irving
August 31, 2013
Historical Examples
“You say she once made advances to you,” I said, with a horrid suspicion at my heart that I had been an egregious fool.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine – Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
Various
He felt happier now that he had pricked the egregious fellow’s vanity.
Changing Winds
St. John G. Ervine
Lax as Harry is, one hesitates to saddle him with such an egregious contradiction.
Sir William Wallace
A. F. Murison
But he in his egregious vanity must of cours e misunderstand.
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Rafael Sabatini
When Wade wrote of the great dead he was egregious, but in conversation he was familiar and fond.
Tales Of Men And Ghosts
Edith Wharton
British Dictionary definitions for egregious Expand
egregious
/ɪˈɡriːdʒəs; -dʒɪəs/
adjective
1.
outstandingly bad; flagrant: an egregious lie
2.
(archaic) distinguished; eminent
Derived Forms
egregiously, adverb
egregiousness, noun
Word Origin
C16: from Latin ēgregius outstanding (literally: standing out from the herd), from ē- out + grex flock, herd
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Word Origin and History for egregious Expand
adj.
1530s, “distinguished, eminent, excellent,” from Latin egregius “distinguished, excellent, extraordinary,” from the phrase ex grege “rising above the flock,” from ex “out of” (see ex- ) + grege, ablative of grex “herd, flock” (see gregarious ).
Disapproving sense, now predominant, arose late 16c., originally ironic and is not in the Latin word, which etymologically means simply “exceptional.” Related: Egregiously ; egregiousness.
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It runs in the family
Oh,yes,I do lovely handwriting
Just like my dad.
It runs in the family
And I like chip sandwiches with butter
It runs in the family.
No,I can’t do cryptic crosswords.
Or enigmatic looks.
It runs not in the family.
I read too many clever books
Instead of earning money.
It just runs in the family.
Yes,we are all music freaks.
We listen to Schubert and Schoenberg all night.
It runs in the family.
We are all impolite.
But we can’t help it cos
It runs in the family.
Yes,we all use four letter words,
It’s a free country,besides,
It runs in the family!
And no we can’t write poetry,you see
Writing doesn’t run in my family.
But,we all practice monogamy,
So far,though, unsuccessfully,because
Adultery runs in the family.
Which puts a slightly different complexion on the phrase
“It runs in the family”
But, alas,all of my ancestors are dead.
It runs in the family!
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U and non U:the century old debate
Actually, it’s very complex.So saying passed away is lower class whilst dead is
upper but I used both/either depending on who I was speaking to.
The receptionist at the surgery having asked:
What do YOU want? was told:
He is DEAD
but the gentle cab driver who asked was told,
he has passed away ,
and he wept [being a foreigner ,you see]
I feel irked that people still bother about those things and shall use the lower class ones as much as possible; so I am just making the tea now after visiting the toilet and finding a serviette and some tinned fruit to have for the sweet.[not in the toilet,of course.]
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Unused to Winter mild and damp and sweet.
I sit alone inside a darkened room
To mourn the passing of my lover dear;
Yet this darkness brings me not to gloom,
Nor does it aggravate historic fears.
I see forsythia’s light and windswept twigs;
The sun is higher despite that it is weak.
And in the earth I see a squirrel digs
Unused to winter mild and damp and sweet.
What will be the trigger for my move
Into the sun which once I loved so much?
Will it be the dawning of new love?
Or will I be deceived that it is such?
I seek no warmth from inter-netting trolls.
For flesh to flesh is how fresh love will call
How my heart sings 