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wax
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wax as in:  the moon is waxing

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  • The broade river some time waxeth drey*.†   (source)
  • The second species of gluttony is, that the spirit of a man waxeth all troubled for drunkenness, and bereaveth a man the discretion of his wit.†   (source)
  • At these words the squire grew still more outrageous than before; so that the parson begged Jones to retire; saying, "You behold, sir, how he waxeth wrath at your abode here; therefore let me pray you not to tarry any longer.†   (source)
  • And well ought Our Lord be signified to an hart, for the hart when he is old he waxeth young again in his white skin.†   (source)
  • And well ought Our Lord be signified to an hart, for the hart when he is old he waxeth young again in his white skin.†   (source)
  • And the great Oath waxeth weak; And Ruth, as a thing outstriven, Is fled, fled, from the shores of the Greek, Away on the winds of heaven.†   (source)
  • And the contrary is joy and great solas,* *delight, comfort
    As when a man hath been in poor estate,
    And climbeth up, and waxeth fortunate,
    And there abideth in prosperity;
    Such thing is gladsome, as it thinketh me,
    And of such thing were goodly for to tell.†   (source)
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  • Doors open and close, the sound of its tiny, immense rage waxes and wanes.†   (source)
  • Stuart's eyes hang on mine while Mother waxes on about the heat, how Carlton's finally met "the one."†   (source)
  • Its light waxes and wanes.†   (source)
  • Sarariman on subway listen For Sushi K like nuclear fission Fire-breathing lizard Cojiro He my always big-time hero His mutant rap burn down whole block Start investing now Sushi IC stock It on Nikkei stock exchange Waxes; other rappers wane Best investment, make my day Corporation Sushi K Squeaky is walking straight uphill, paralleling a fresh motorcycle track that has cut deeply into the loose yellow soil.†   (source)
  • Should I think it absurd that the moon wanes and waxes, or that the seasons turn, or that birds fly south in the winter?†   (source)
  • Travel posters plastered the smoke-dark walls, like so many picture windows overlooking Swiss lakes and Japanese mountains and African velds, and thick, dusty bottle-candles, that seemed for centuries to have wept their colored waxes red over blue over green in a fine, three-dimensional lace, cast a circle of light round each table where the faces floated, flushed and flamelike themselves.†   (source)
  • She was walking stiffly-bikini waxes were especially brutal-as she came up to my desk.†   (source)
  • And in the evolving scan of his eros, it was the masking waxes, liners, glosses and creams that became the soft moist mechanisms of release.†   (source)
  • The intensity of her insanity waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger.†   (source)
  • There Mother Rhoyne waxes so wide that a man upon a boat in the center of the stream cannot see a shore to either side.†   (source)
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  • Perhaps Europe is forever a dark forest, and only Asia waxes healthy and teeming.†   (source)
  • who kept going through rituals of miscarriage each for a different reason, deliberately as others might the ritual of birth, dedicated not to continuity but to some kind of interregnum; an aging night-watchman, nibbling at a bar of Ivory Soap, who had trained his virtuoso stomach to accept also lotions air-fresheners, fabrics, tobaccos and waxes in a hopeless attempt to assimilate it all, all the promise, productivity, betrayal, ulcers, before it was too late; and even another voyeur, who hung outside one of the city's still-lighted windows, searching for who knew what specific image.†   (source)
  • The Enemy has found it, and now his power waxes; he sees our very thoughts, and all we do is ruinous.†   (source)
  • When the tide waxes, the Eye rotates north to west.†   (source)
  • I dare not sit idle whilst Roose Bolton's star waxes and mine wanes.†   (source)
  • They put Spender into a silver case with waxes and wines which were ten thousand years old, his hands folded on his chest.†   (source)
  • All the other masters got into dreadful waxes.†   (source)
  • Then, its countenance waxes stern and grand, and we see that it must be true.†   (source)
  • A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last; the desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life.†   (source)
  • This waxes critical!†   (source)
  • And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.†   (source)
  • The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry.†   (source)
  • At eve, within yon studious nook,
    I ope my brass-embossed book,
    Portray'd with many a holy deed
    Of martyrs crown'd with heavenly meed;
    Then, as my taper waxes dim,
    Chant, ere I sleep, my measured hymn.†   (source)
  • "He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!" murmured Ahab, as Starbuck disappeared.†   (source)
  • That sky with its high and light clouds which are sure to melt away as the day waxes warm — this placid and balmly atmosphere?†   (source)
  • Everytime she waxes the floors she keels over.†   (source)
  • The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the
    factory or mill,
    The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead
    flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering
    with blue and gold,
    The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his
    desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,
    The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
    The child is baptized, the convert is making his first professions,
    The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white
    sails sparkle!)†   (source)
  • Think it no more: For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.†   (source)
  • He waxes desperate with imagination.†   (source)
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  • He scraped from it a sliver as thin as a hair, wrapped it in wax, and added it to the pan in which the lead had melted.   (source)
    wax = a soft or moldable, oily substance
  • Matthewson waxed jubilant.   (source)
    waxed = spoke
  • Papery ropes of skin wrapped delicately around his thigh and down his calf, like wax dripping from a cheap candle.†   (source)
  • All homemade, wrapped in wax paper.†   (source)
  • He scraped the candle wax from his hand and drew back from the splice of light that came through the crack in the door.†   (source)
  • Doon dripped a bit of wax on the floor and stood his candle up in it, so he'd have both hands free.†   (source)
  • Each footfall made a shrill squeak on the waxed marble floor, standing out amid the rumble of sensible business footwear.†   (source)
  • started writhing as though he'd just swallowed live snakes — doubled up, he wondered whether he was going to be sick — then a burning sensation spread rapidly from his stomach to the very ends of his fingers and toes — next, bringing him gasping to all fours, came a horrible melting feeling, as the skin all over his body bubbled like hot wax — and before his eyes, his hands began to grow, the fingers thickened, the nails broadened, the knuckles were bulging like bolts —his shoulders stretched painfully and a prickling on his forehead told him that hair was creeping down toward his eyebrows — his robes ripped as his chest expanded like a barrel bursting its hoops — his feet were agon†   (source)
  • I'd run the corrected lines through the hot-wax machine that made the back side sticky, then cut out the lines with an X-Acto knife and fit them over the original lines.†   (source)
  • As he walked out, his mother rushed to the kitchen and emerged with a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper.†   (source)
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  • August used a pound of wax per candle and pressed tiny violets into them, which I collected in the woods.†   (source)
  • The wax dummy in the coffin had been molded in the former image of Sam Westing as he had looked fifteen years ago—not as he looked now.†   (source)
  • She gathers eggshells, twists up wax paper.†   (source)
  • But his mother began to fold over the counter like wax softened in the sun until her forehead almost touched the papers.†   (source)
  • Any chance I get, I use wax paper.†   (source)
  • How many boxes of Hamburger Helper, Swanson's TV dinners, or Turtle Wax could one buy without spending a penny more than twenty dollars?†   (source)
  • Something deep in his mind that had once held him up softened like wax and collapsed.†   (source)
  • Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I'd wax philosophical about the meaning of the word "sibling": Are the children of your mom's previous husbands still related to you?†   (source)
  • He tears strips from the waxed paper and wraps each piece tightly before placing them back in his bag.†   (source)
  • Uncle Max stared into space, his stiff bearing reminding Paul of a wax figure.†   (source)
  • Grover was eating the waxed paper off the tray now, but if Aunty Em found that strange, she didn't say anything.†   (source)
  • Nine wax-paper-wrapped rectangular bars tumbled out.†   (source)
  • There is a vanilla cake with blue wax candles.†   (source)
  • Behind me, the sun was setting behind Stortfold Castle, its dark shadow sliding down the hill like melting wax to overtake me.†   (source)
  • Laila brings a pail filled with rags, disinfectant, a toilet brush, and spray wax for the dressers.†   (source)
  • So you'll do it by the law, with lawyers and wax seals and all.†   (source)
  • Silently, they did as he asked, sorting through what they'd traced until eight low stacks of wax paper lined the table.†   (source)
  • He found candles in a kitchen drawer and lit two of them and then melted wax onto the counter and stood them in the wax.†   (source)
  • Inside were fifteen pastries, separated by squares of wax paper and stuffed with strawberry preserves.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a fancy suit and his eyebrow had been waxed so it looked as shiny as his eyes.†   (source)
  • I was first brought here by my friends, followed in their turn by the local officials and the mimes, who wore the wax faces of my wife, taken by a fever in Camulodonum, and my father, killed in a border skirmish in Gaul.†   (source)
  • Anyway, enough waxing philosophical.†   (source)
  • You see, in those days, ladies' makeup was made out of wax, and if it got too hot it would run down their pretty faces....†   (source)
  • He'd eaten a sandwich during the fifteen-minute recess, sat in Alvin's office with a piece of wax paper laid across his knees and an apple on the edge of the desk.†   (source)
  • I don't tell anyone that what makes this work is wax.†   (source)
  • So you spend the rest of the week stressing over where to take them—food, concert, wax museum?†   (source)
  • They were mostly photos, but there were some wax statues, too.†   (source)
  • I handed him the apple core and he put it and the wax paper from the sandwich in the paper bag.†   (source)
  • And if you think that doesn't hurt, think about having your UNDERARMS waxed, which I also had done for him.†   (source)
  • These are the kinds of cars that you don't mind loading with sand, wet towels, bathing suits, melted wax, and surfboards.†   (source)
  • The carpet had a big, red candle wax stain on it.†   (source)
  • He heard the thud of a piece of fruit rolling, the crinkle of wax paper, and he imagined the insides of his lunch, like mysterious organs.†   (source)
  • Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.†   (source)
  • I bring em out, undo the wax paper I got em in so they don't turn out bent.†   (source)
  • They found Queen Cersei in the council chambers, seated at the head of a long table littered with papers, candles, and blocks of sealing wax.†   (source)
  • Since I only have to look hairless for a few hours instead of several weeks, I get to be shaved instead of waxed.†   (source)
  • The hot wax spattered the table.†   (source)
  • Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnish and wax.†   (source)
  • So am I. We looked at each other under the light of a waxing crescent moon, and I almost kissed her right then, but she turned away a moment too soon and said something that sort of threw me.†   (source)
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