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Sizzlin'!
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peristyle a row of columns forming an enclosure or supporting a roof

Pleiades a galactic cluster in the constellation Taurus

portico a porch or covered walk, consisting of a roof supported by columns, often at the entrance or across the front of a building; colonnade

precedent that precedes; preceding

protuberances parts or things that protrude; projections; bulges; swellings

provocation something that provokes; especially, a cause of resentment or irritation; incitement

pulled me up sharp caused a person to take notice

querulously in a manner inclined to find fault; complainingly

rejoined joined together again; reunited

rent a hole or gap made by rending or tearing, as a torn place in cloth, a fissure in the earth, etc.

repining a feeling or expression of unhappiness or discontent; complaint; fretting

repugnant contradictory; inconsistent; offering resistance; opposed; antagonistic

reticent habitually silent or uncommunicative; disinclined to speak readily; reserved; taciturn

revelry reveling; noisy merrymaking; boisterous festivity

rills little brooks; rivulets

roan of a solid color, as reddish-brown, brown, black, etc., with a thick sprinkling of white hairs; said chiefly of horses


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