Lunch
Luck in loose plaster makes holy gauge and nearly that, nearly morestates, more states come in town light kite, blight not white.
A little lunch is a break in skate a little lunch so slimy, a west endof a board line is that which shows a little beneath so that necessityis a silk under wear. That is best wet. It is so natural, and why isthere flake, there is flake to explain exhaust.
A real cold hen is nervous is nervous with a towel with a spool withreal beads. It is mostly an extra sole nearly all that shaved, shavedwith an old mountain, more than that bees more than that dinner and abunch of likes that is to say the hearts of onions aim less.
Cold coffee with a corn a corn yellow and green mass is a gem.
Words in this poem
- lunch n.
- A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner. [Of uncertain etymol. Cf. Prov. Eng. nunc a lump.]
- flake n.
- A paling; a hurdle. [prov. Eng.] [Cf. Icel. flaki, fleki, Dan. flage, D. vlaak.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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