She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day …

Mark Helprin
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She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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