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do you wanna wind up in a graveyard... * 2003-08-197:13 a.m. yet another failed mission in fidelity. monogamy is overrated i suppose. lessons learned, lessons learned...who needs cainer anymore when there's "word of the day?" Word of the Day for Tuesday August 19, 2003 cozen KUZ-un, transitive verb: intransitive verb: To act deceitfully. You would naturally not think so flat a rogue could cozen you. But have a care! These half idiots have a sort of cunning, as the skunk has its stench. --Robert LouisĘStevenson, [1]The Master of Ballantrae The men who circle endlessly around her are mostly louts and losers. We watch them, at some length, as they drink, dope, cozen each other and tirelessly mistreat women. --Brad Leithauser, "Capturer of Hearts," [2]New York Times, April 7, 1996 Pound, discussing Loy and Moore together, made a stab: "In the verses of Marianne Moore I detect traces of emotion; in that of Mina Loy I detect no emotion whatever." No, not absence of feeling; refusal, rather, to cozen her readers by appeal to feeling. --Hugh Kenner, "To Be the Brancusi of Poetry," [3]New York Times, May 16, 1982 The rich man, argued Fox, is 'the greatest thief' because he acquired his wealth 'by cozening and cheating, by lying and defrauding'. --James Walvin, [4]The Quakers Cozen perhaps derives from Early Modern French cousiner, "to defraud; literally to treat as if a cousin (hence to claim to be a cousin in order to defraud)," from Old French cosin. stay calm, arto lindsay * nostalgia d'jour * making my barbie and ken "do it" * wish d'jour * a strong man bout to give this girl a shout >>back in the day>> "i don't want the world, i just want your half..." >>>leave your mark on me / [?uestbook]>>> * me love you long time *
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