The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to ThemMarion Street Press, Inc., 2002 - 400 pages When James McElroy said those words, seventeen-year-old Olivia Banks believed him. And when she discovered she was pregnant with his child, she expected to marry the love of her life. Instead, the young couple was separated. Olivia thought she'd been abandoned and was forced to accept another man's offer to marry her and raise the boy as his own. Now, decades later, the truth reunites James and Olivia. They are husband and wife at long last. As James lies ill in a hospital bed, Olivia recounts her life with--and without--him. Their story gives her faith that the heart of her heart will return to her again. Because her first love is her last love--her only love. |
Table des matières
Expressions That Dull Our Reason and Dim Our Insight | 16 |
Writing That Demands to Be Read Aloud Speech That Calls to Be Captured in Print | 28 |
The Dimwits Dictionary | 53 |
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The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives ... Robert Hartwell Fiske Aucun aperçu disponible - 2002 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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