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noun
type
I had never before encountered that peculiar Empire-building breed
of Englishman…
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dialects
noun
languages
….if they lived in India then all manner of dialects were intermingled
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And from that one, interestingly enough, RAF/Middle East slang for a
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reconnaissance plane in the last war was a shufti kite
... jargon would have filled a dictionary
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reconnaissance
noun
exploration or
observation to
discover useful
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jargon
noun
specialized
language
conventional
adjective
ordinary
sinewy
adjective
lean and
muscular
All in all, it was rather wonderful for me, a conventional young lad
from the suburbs…
...of this pack of sinewy sunburnt gophers and their bright bony little
wives…
eccentricities
noun
strange habits
...what I liked best of all about them was their eccentricities
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materialized
verb
appeared out of
nowhere
Then a naked body materialized
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genuine
adjective
real
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apparition
noun
ghostly image
eternal
adjective
everlasting
...I began to wonder seriously whether I might not after all have seen
a genuine apparition,
...I began to wonder seriously whether I might not after all have seen
a genuine apparition,
...now spent his eternal life running above the waves and clambering
back on to his lost ship
clambering
verb
climbing with
difficulty, using
both hands and
feet
...now spent his eternal life running above the waves and clambering
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back on to his lost ship
stocky
adjective
solidly built
He was short and stocky and slightly pot-bellied in his nakedness,
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canter
noun
easy gallop
Come and join me in a canter
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prancing
verb
stepping with
high lively steps
I smiled weakly at the Major as he went prancing by…
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scampering
verb
spouse
noun
colossal
adjective
gigantic
contempt
noun
proud disrespect He glared at me with such contempt and horror…
sterilized
verb
reptilian
adjective
absentmindedly
adverb
employ
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running with light
steps
partner in
marriage
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the deck in the altogether…
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my eyes became riveted on this nude female scarecrow galloping
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ever so proudly alongside her bare-skinned spouse…
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he paused, giving the dreadful wife another colossal wink …
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made free from
germs
like a reptile,
such as a lizard
or a snake
without paying
attention
verb
hire for work
Do you employ a lot of “boys” on your coffee farm
vapid
adjective
dull
arrogant
adjective
overly proud
species
noun
type
regalia
noun
fancy official
clothing
stationed
verb
positioned
ostentatiously
adverb
in a flashy or
showy way
revolving
adjective
turning
ruses
noun
tricks
...just one of my little ruses,
bearing
noun
way of moving
and standing
...charmed everybody by his good manners and gentle bearing
extended
verb
stretched
...it was impossible for him to imagine that the world extended much
beyond the shores of the African continent
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equivalents
noun
equals in value,
function, or
meaning
I insisted on teaching him how to read and write not only Swahili
words but also their English equivalents
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...sterilized either, but I kept quiet
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Toes are reptilian and viperish…
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Absentmindedly I took an orange myself and was about to start
peeling it
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I felt she would come to my rescue at any time, whereas Major
Griffiths was vapid…
I felt she would come to my rescue at any time, whereas Major
Griffiths was vapid, vulgar, arrogant and unkind…
The male species of the Empire-builder, whether he is camping in the
jungle or is at sea in a rowing-boat…
and by that I mean white shirt, black tie, dinner-jacket, black trousers
and black patent-leather shoes, the full regalia…
He stationed himself in front of the washbasin mirror, took the lid off
the carton and dipped his fingers into it
He did it ostentatiously, slapping the shoulder quite hard and saying
at the same time in a rather loud voice,
The big slowly-revolving fan in the ceiling seemed to be
blowing steam out of its blades
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superbly
adverb
excellently
Mdisho was about six feet tall, superbly built…
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imminent
adjective
War was clearly imminent…
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neutral
adjective
sensible
adjective
defensive
adjective
deploy
verb
necessity
noun
incessantly
adverb
rasping
adjective
abstract
adjective
prospective
adjective
mesmerized
adjective
panting
adjective
trance
noun
intricate
adjective
literally
adverb
actually
cascade
noun
waterfall
disillusioned
adjective
with false ideas
taken away
downcast
adjective
discouraged
threatening to
occur
not taking sides
in a conflict
well-thought-out
able to be
defended from
attackers
move into
position
The nearest neutral territory is Portuguese East Africa…
Make sure you take up a sensible defensive position…
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...deploy your troops under good cover
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need
...I could bring myself to give the order to open fire on a bunch of
German civilians in cold blood should the necessity arise
without stopping
...the frogs were croaking incessantly..
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harsh and
scratchy
related to ideas
rather than the
physical
African frogs have an unusually loud rasping croak…
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expected or likely ...she hops smartly over to the side of her prospective mate…
put into a dreamBut now he has become mesmerized by the lovely music…
like state
...for him nothing else exists, not even the panting female at his
heavily breathing
side…
...only then does the bullfrog come out of his trance and turn to
dream-like state
embrace her
detailed and
The sword was long and curved and the silver scabbard was
complicated
wonderfully chased with an intricate design…
His superb black body was literally dripping with sweat
the words came rushing out in a cascade of crazy excited
sentences…
... all of a sudden he looked so downcast and disillusioned and
defeated
... all of a sudden he looked so downcast and disillusioned and
defeated
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craggy
adjective
steep, rocky, and ...I saw only a couple of miles away a range of massive craggy
rough
mountains as bare as bones
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prophecies
noun
predictions
But why such prophecies of doom
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squadron
noun
group of military
planes
virtually
adverb
almost
cope
verb
deal with a
situation
extricate
verb
pull out
The ground-crew in a squadron, the fitters and riggers, were virtually
non-combatants
The ground-crew in a squadron, the fitters and riggers, were virtually
non-combatants
...so long as it was only the Italians they were up against, they had
been able to cope
The problem confronting the British now was how to extricate their
army from Greece…
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escapade
noun
wild and reckless I was young enough and starry-eyed enough to look upon this
adventure
Grecian escapade as nothing more than a grand adventure
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preoccupied
adjective
busy
I could see that the man was preoccupied and wished to get rid of
me, but I hesitated
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companion
noun
person who
accompanies
another person
...my companion was sitting on his camp-bed and threading a piece
of string into one of his shoes because the shoe-lace had broken
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incendiaries
noun
explosives
...even incendiaries
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digest
verb
think over and
take in
I tried to digest what he was saying…
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primitive
adjective
basic and simple I had been in some fairly primitive lavatories in East Africa…
inefficient
adjective
ineffective
apparatus
noun
device
solitary
adjective
existing alone
cluster
noun
bunch
tolerated
verb
allowed
startled
adjective
surprised
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...somebody in the Ops Room tried to contact me on his amazingly
inefficient apparatus
...somebody in the Ops Room tried to contact me on his amazingly
inefficient apparatus
...I saw a single solitary goat, brown and white, wandering on the
bare rock
Then I saw below me in the distance a kind of waterway or fjord and
a little cluster of houses on the shore
They cultivate bizarre habits that would never be tolerated back
home…
He could hardly have looked more startled if I had suddenly
announced that I had never been up in an aeroplane before
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billowed
verb
swelled
spellbound
adjective
fascinated
unscathed
adjective
unharmed
swarming
verb
moving in large
numbers
...are swarming like wasps
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hectic
adjective
feverish
Twelve separate sorties against the enemy in four days is a fairly
hectic pace by any standards…
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penultimate
adjective
second to last
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morale
noun
dicey
adjective
astronomical
adjective
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glamorized
adjective
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doleful
adjective
convey
verb
immobile
adjective
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evacuated
verb
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glimpses
noun
momentary or
I caught glimpses of planes with black smoke pouring from their
incomplete views engines
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depict
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show
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and a moment later one … two … three parachutes billowed open
and began floating gently down between the cliffs towards the narrow At Grade Level
valley below
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Miraculously the fuselage seemed to be completely unscathed
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The inhabitants of Athens, so it seemed, were getting jumpy and it
confidence, hope,
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was assumed that the sight of us all flying overhead would boost their
and discipline
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morale
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risky
...it is a dicey experience
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He was far and away the greatest fighter ace the Middle East was
huge
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ever to see, with an astronomical number of victories to his credit…
made more
It was even said that he had shot down more planes than any of the
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romantic or
famous and glamorized Battle of Britain aces, and this was probably
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attractive
true
He was a very small man and very soft-spoken, and he possessed
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lives had already been used up
I don't think any fighter pilot has ever managed to convey what it is
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like to be up there in a long-lasting dog-fight
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Some people do not realize that although a Hurricane had eight guns
not movable
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in its wings, those guns were all immobile
...with these we were expected to give air cover to the entire British
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Expeditionary Force which was about to be evacuated along the
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despicable
adjective
despondent
adjective
enigmatic
adjective
feasible
adjective
flagrant
adjective
glaringly obvious N/A
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gregarious
adjective
liking being in a
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gullible
adjective
easily fooled
gusto
noun
harangue
verb
impervious
adjective
kudos
noun
merge
verb
opulent
adjective
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deserving to be
looked down
upon
discouraged and
in low spirits
mysterious or
puzzling
able to be
achieved
enthusiasm and
enjoyment
long, loud,
forceful speech
impossible to
pass through
praise and
congratulations
join together and
become one
full of wealth and
luxury
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