to stay in a place longer than necessary : FOUND IN :
selcouth
adjective / sel-kooth / selcouthly (Atmospheric) has a vague but indefinable familiarity; not clearly evident or well known; possibly even silly in nature “ffor sothe I sagh neuer sich a sight In no-kyns land; A starne thus, aboute mydnyght, so bright shynand. It gyfys more light it self alone Then any son that euer shone, Or mone, when he of son has ton his light so cleyn; Sich selcouth sight haue I sene none, what so euer it meyn.” The […]
surly
adjective / sur-lee / surlier / surliest / surliness (Atmospheric) having a darkly domineering appearance that is meant to intimidate and deter something or someone’s actions Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirthOf sun-split clouds – and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flungMy eager […]
wisps
noun / wisps / wisp / wisping / wisped / wispy (Seeing) barely discernable thing or group of things that twist All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes — characters even — caught […]