What's the missing word?

From the book that you are currently reading, choose a sentence/passage leaving out one word.
The object is to guess what the missing word is.
Let us start with maximum number of guesses is 3, (as this is a new post).
If one guesses the word, it is their turn to choose a sentence/passage leaving out one word.
If no one guesses, the same person is to choose another sentence leaving out one word.
Don't forget to tell us what book your sentence is from.

I shall being...

The sight of a green, scaly __________ would upset most of the locals no matter what he was wearing.

Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin

guess 1) lizard

Good guess...wrong answer. Please try again.

guess 2) gecko

Another good guess. It really is, but it's not the right guess :(

guess 3) frog

All green and and scaly but wrong. The right answer is:
The sight of a green, scaly DEMON would upset most of the locals no matter what he was wearing.

No one guessed it so I may post another sentence.

"The last thing we need is to carry a ring that shoots __________."

Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin

fire?

Very good. Congrats. You're next.

Since no one has continued for three days, I'll take a turn.

"Such expressive sorrow as Susanna Townsend shared with her ___________ was atypical of the usual experience."

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by Jo Ann Levy

companions ?

no, need to try again

parents?

getting a lot closer...

elders

relatives ?

#16 - getting colder - two more tries

#17 - close to burning!! - one more try

kin?

No, close, but it was "sisters."

Why don't you go next, rp?

NEXT: "There was a superb image of Venus in this
new __ __ __ __ __ __, and beside it (Julius) Caesar placed a gilt-bronze statue of Cleopatra herself."
-- Cleopatra by Michael Grant

mirror?

"mirror?"

Not mirror.

shrine?

"Shrine" is close: think "shrine" -- on a bigger scale.

altar? am not if that is always bigger

Not altar

Itʻs "temple", but with the 3-guess limit you should set the "NEXT", as having been, with "shrine" the closest.

"(Ginger Rogers) needs guises the way the other actresses need closeups, and it's revealing that...she was the only movie actress of the sound era who appeared regularly as a ____________."

The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book by Arlene Croce

dancer?

Sorry, no, you're in the icebox. Please try again.

singer ?

(Reminds me of the old anecdote about Fred Astaire: An early reviewer said of him (when he was an unknown): "Cannot act, cannot sing; can dance
A LITTLE " (emphasis added)

Still in the icebox...

man? Although that seems quite far-fetched!

However, much, much closer.

reader ?

No, it's "child."

But I don't like to do two in a row. Do either of you want to do the next?

I can go, since I neglected to before:

"The gunman kicked the __ away."
Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh

cat?

nope! keep guessing :)

knife ?

Wombles ?

What are wombles?

I am wondering if, after the first guess, some (broad) hints might make the guessing more fun. What do you think?

woman?

conductor ?

>42 callmejacx: see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wombles

44 is pretty close! It's 'women' but I think that's close enough? over to you linsleo

"You'll note the course itself describes a figure eight like the twined serpents on _____ staff - like the Eightfold Path the Buddha prescribed to reach Nirvana - like the eight tiers of the Tower of Babel one climbed to reach the gods."

The Eight by Katherine Neville

"like the twined serpents on
_______ staff-like the Eightfold Path (that)* the Buddha prescribed . . .

I'm starting to think that "staff-like" is not an adjective
(as I first thought) but a just a noun ("Staff") followed by
a dash leading into "like the Eightfold Path..."
If that's right, then a double-dash would be better: the single dash can be mistaken for a hyphen.

Otherwise, syntactically, it's hard to figure why the article "the" comes AFTER
"______ staff-like" and not before it.
The blank might be a possessive.

*I'm assuming a "that" is understood here.

guessing:

_______ = "therapeutic"

No . . . but Double dash would be correct. Thank you.

Homer's

# 43 I think that is a grand idea.

52 - No but on the right track

53- hint - from Greek Mythology

Hermes's ?

Yes -
over to you

"ONCE I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence
about everything and with clarity and without so much __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ preambling as this; in other words, this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally -- 'facetious' won't do - - just to start at the beginning and let the truth seep out that's what I'll do."

- - This book passed its 50th anniversary of publication a few years ago (though I don't guarantee that there was any celebration). This is by no means his most famous book,
though of the same decade."

THe missing word is an adjective, of 8 letters.

This also appears to be the first line of his book.

"first line. . ." (58):
Yes.

lettered ?

lettered (60)

Right # of letters,* and
close in meaning, but not the word

And starts with the right letter ?

Yes - -starts with the L of "lettered",
then moves on to a more latinate
vowel, rather than the Anglo-French E
of "lettered". (The author b t w, was
fluent in French,but wrote in English.)

Fluent in French due to having French-Canadian parents?

. . ."French-Canadian parents"?
Oui.

laboured?

"Laboured?"
Right # of letters; right 1st initial, and makes good sense, but is semantically not as
close as @jbbarrett was.

("Laboured?": at first I thought you were not guessing, but asking something like "Did he ever do a day's work?" (The answer is, "Yes, a lot of them", even though the category he's usually placed in was suspected of being allergic to work.)

I think we all give up.

The movie version of this book, (57) I remember, gave
supporting player Roddy MacDowell one of the ineptest lines I have ever heard emerge from a screen:
"You gonna do the ʻOh-Promise-Meʻ bit with this
cat?" -- a feeble attempt at how the "category" I was talking about above (beatniks) would
ask, "Are you gonna marry this guy?" The line was addressed to the heroine (Leslie Caron). "This cat" referred to the beatnik protagonist --who (semi-autobiographically) represented the author.

The book and movie -"The Subterraneans" and the word is literary??

Right, "literary" from the opening lines of The Subterraneans.
Please set the "Next".

"On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an
__ __ __ __ __ __ __, bearing parties to and from
the city between nine in the morning and long past
midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a
brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.

(An F Scott Fitzgerald Book)

"omnibus" ?

yes and it's over to you

"They talked always
of pot-houses, of __ __ __ __ __ __ __- __ __ __ __, by which they meant any hour between one and four of the afternoon."


11-letter, hyphenated, made up of two fairly common words. I added a comma and a hyphen to "pothouses" which
he didn't hyphenate.


In this game, there's no need to guess the author and title. (I don't think I could, if working on this one!) It is a little known short-novel by a well-known author. He uses the 2nd word of this 2-word title as the third word of a better-
known title.

younger brother of William??

"younger brother of William"?

Yes.

No one is going so I hope you all dont' mind if I go ahead.

From the book A Year in HineSight by Anne Hines

At one point this morning we couldn't decide if what we had found on the head of one tiny tot was a louse or just a big flake of dry scalp. We called in Debbie, the Grand Lice Lady, who proclaimed it to be a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Nonentity?

Doodlebug?

Both are good guesses but not the correct one.

fer-de-lance ?
oh-oh: one letter too many!
(And "dandruff" has one too few).

Note on #75:
The seemingly abstruse
hidden hyphenated word was
"feeding-time".

Dandelion?

Peachfuzz?

Dachshund ?

Dragonfly ?

Gyroscope ?

Communist ?

Tangerine ?

What great answers, but none of them are the right ones. The right answer was `cornflake`.

From When We Were Young by Stuart McLean

Every afternoon, we waited with excitement for Miss Doyle's descriptions of the day's battles and victories. No matter how small the conflicts or how great the number of casualties, Miss Doyle rarely talked of people killing each other, but always mentioned "_ _ _ _ _ _" and "_ _ _ _ _ _ _" and "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ."

Just get one of the words right and it's your turn.

skirmish?
fights?
triumphs?
courage?

swords and daggers and amputees ?

You got it hemlokgang...it's courage. In order it is "rescue" and "courage" and "kindness".

The floor is yours

From The Dark by Sergio Chejfec:

"A machine taken out of circulation created an obstacle: an _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ worker."

This is a tough one.

I have come up with a few 7 letter words, but not 8. lol

abnormal ?

acidhead ?

obsolete ?

You got it Roland........take it away!

I hesitated to post, because the logic of it bothered me:
I would think a machine
BEING INSTALLED (not "taken away") could mean an obsolete worker. Then I thought maybe the idea is: a machine taken away means
bringing back a (formerly) obsolete worker.

NEXT:
"Who steals my purse steals
trash: 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he who
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ from
me my good name,
Takes from me that which not enriches him,
And leaves me poor indeed."

I think he was likening the machine to an obsolete worker....

removes?

borrows ?

102, 103

Less neutral (in the speaker's attitude) than "removes"
Less straightforward than
"borrows". (But it does have the -es ending, which, in this author, sometimes alternates with the -eth ending.)
This verb shows disrespect for both the
obtainer and the loser in the __ __ __ __ __ ing operation -- but especially the former.

Filches?

Othello

"Filches" 101 >105 linsleo:

"Right"!

"Othello" --Right.
(the lines are spoken
by "Iago"
Please set the "NEXT".

"The ledge, where I placed my candle, had a few
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ books piled up in one
corner; and it was covered with writing scratched on the paint."

Dogeared?

good guess but not the correct answer -

tattered ?

favorite?

oldstyle?

Good word Roland

"oldstyle . . .good word."
(12>13)
Sorry to say, my spellcheck
calls it a mispelliing -- meaning that it has to be 2 words, I guess.

Hint-

This often happens to books exposed to the elements. . .

mouldery ?

Bronte used another term to express that -

Mildewed?

Yes - Do you know the book?

no......

"Pathways _ _ _ _ _ _ in every direction on the palace grounds, lined with vivid blooms of chrysanthemums, bougainvillea, and roses."

"curved" ?

Nope

"turned" ?

abound ?

Nope

circled?

No....think leisurely motion

ambled ?

Bingo! It is all yours!

From The Pathway:

Above the earth dependent for its mortal life on the light and heat of a dwarf-yellow star , a vast firmament was held
in a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of darkness, pieced in vain by its glittering night-suns.

"periplus" ?

No, not "periplus". A good word, and I had to look it up to find its meaning, "a sailing-around". It would have fitted well, but the answer does not have that sort of meaning.

"ambience" ?
(or is an initial vowel ruled out by the preceding "a" rather than "an"?"

No, not a word beginning with a vowel.

"grasping" ?

No, more of a contradiction.

Or the converse, the taking away of ...

deprival ?
doesn't sound right in this context, but "deprival" can mean "the taking away of".

No, not deprival.

This one is a hard one

"sweeping" ?

Not "sweeping".

A negative statement, a refusal or contradiction; a denial of something.

Universe?

Negating?

>144 rolandperkins: Closest so far. Very close.

A noun.

negation ?

That's it. Over to you.

"The claim of The Black Poets to being at least a partially __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ anthology is based on is that it presents the full range of Black American poetry . . .

The Black Poets Ed. by Dudley Randall:
Introduction

Definitive?

Representative?

"Definitive" is right, @hemlokgng!
Please take over.

(Good guess, but it was 10-letter, not 14-letter,
@starbox. Sorry, Ididn't get the whole 10 onto one line.)

From Billy Watson's Croker Sack:

" What they came out with was better than a hat--
a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of plastic flowers, left over from some beauty contest or pageant."

bouquet ?

Not bouquet.....

Not a hat......but worn on the head.....

"coronet" ?

Bingo! Take it away......

Great guess Roland

"(Parisy)* has the artistic sense of a yogurt. On top of which . . . he 's completely
__ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __." (8-letter,hyphenated adjective.)

Piano; a novel
by Jean Echenoz

*Parisy: evidently a bureaucrat of the music business.

tone-deaf ?

"tone-deaf" is correct,
@fyrfly!

Please set the "NEXT".

As it turns out, the ------------ Turnpike deal almost went through, only to be killed by the state legislature, but there were others just like it that did go through, most notably the sale of all the parking meters in Chicago to a consortium that included the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, from the United Arab Emirates.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con that Is Breaking America
by Matt Taibbi

"Pennsylvania" ?

That's right!

- -"Is he often thus (drunk)?"

-- "'Tis evermore the
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ to his sleep.
He'll watch the horloge' a double set,
If Drink rock not his cradle!"

(the speaker,a villain, suddenly changes metaphors, from Sleep's being a sort of'performance to its beng something sought by an infant.)

Lullaby?

166
/
Not "lullaby"; the getting a baby-to-sleep metaphor has not yet entered into it at this
point. Only the "performance" metaphor.
And I see now that I should
have allowed for one more
letter than it had in the first posting: an 8-letter word.

"...He'll watch the horloge' . . . . . . his cradle", b t w, is cut by many directors as too obscure: it, roughly, means,
"He''ll stay awake 24 hours (rather than 12), if booze doesn't rock his cradle."

Overture?

"Overture" is close. Not quite.
It's sort of a non-musical parallel to an overture.

Catalyst?

Prologue?

167 > 171

"Prologue" is right.
Please Set the "NEXT".

"A free _ _ _ _ _ of mead for the first one to get to the tavern!"

From The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel

glass ?

Not glass.....

litre ?

Not litre....

quart ?

No........keep thinking about vessels

stoop ?

flask ?

Consider a word that works in German and English......

Stein?

Bingo! Take it away, callmejacx!

From Peter Mansbridge One on One: Favourite Conversations and the Stories Behind Them by Peter Mansbridge

"You've talked about the game and how,when it come right down to it, it's between the __________."

Good luck all. I had a hard time picking something.

Coaches?

"teams" ?

For the life of me I can't find that quote again. I wanted to tell you who it was that Peter was referring to.

Anyways, the missing word is "ears".

players

Go agian, callmejacx!

Oh my...I am so very sorry. I haven't been here much.

Okay here it goes...

If you were even to stop on a _____ _____ resting on the bottom of a pond, all it would do would be to move away. On land, all the danger from a _____ was to the front or the side. From behind, a _____ couldn't get you. Get it by the tail, you were safe.

Guess what it is?

snapping turtle?

moray eel?

sleeping crocodile

hemlokgang...you are right. Wtg. I am impressed. Your turn

"They say people in _ _ _ _ have no names."

From Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

hell

Bingo...take it away, razz!

I passed.

Ok......

"Allen looked at me blankly for a few seconds before
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ kicked in."

From High Five by Janet Evanovich

"recognition" ?

Bingo...go roland!

"Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
__ __ __ __ __ __ upon ʻem!"

Malvolio, in Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare

(6- letter participle, but not ending in "-ed")
semi-archaic; its present tense is spelled the same way.

bestow?

thrust ?

". . .Some have greatness THRUST upon ʻem" is right,
@jbbarret.

Please set the "NEXT".

Maybe jbbarrett is busy. Let me give you a sentence to work on

From Hit or Myth by Robert Asprin

"They're big on the wrestling circuit. In fact, teams like this are their dimension's most popular export. Everyone knows them as the Terrible ____________. They're a lot more destructive than you'd guess from their size.

Ivan ???

No sorry. Try again.

". . .Twins" ?

Sorry... you are pretty close roland

Duo ???

ohhhh even closer

double ???

"Trio" ?

I cheated and looked this up. It's not a real word at at all, but a name.
Certainly not guessable.

"Twyborn" ?

But, assuming Iʻm wrong, why not go ahead and guess it, jbarret ?(I dontʻ regard looking it up as "cheat(ing".)

Siamese Twins ???

Twosome?

Take the first syllable of #220, and spell it a different way, like an abbreviation for a day.

I would have given it to anyone who said Two's.

Hemlokgang takes it away. She had the word two in it

Any idea why they were called "Tues"?

Okidoki....

From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:

"Even the most casual study of the record, Landsman thinks, would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a _ _ _ _ _ _ _."

Gentile ?

No....

r e f u g e e ???

Not at all obvious, but whoever gets it should feel cock-a-hoop.

rooster ?

Cluck cluck.....

chicken ???

Yep.....it's all yours, razz!

New Puzzle:

From: The Family Corleone by Ed Falco

The man was tall and muscular,with an overhanging brow that made him look _ _ _ _ _ _.

"fierce" ?

No. The word is much stronger than fierce, more physical.

"savage" ?

No. A similar word.Quite close.

224...The book is filled with puns. Ever hear of the "terrible two's?

Is the missing word, ferocious?

" brutal " is the missing word.

Next puzzle: Anyone can submit

NEXT:

- - " We are (only) men, my liege!"

- - (sarcastically) "Aye, in the *__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __, ye PASS for men!"

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

*9 letter noun, sometimes
written with 7 letters.

Afterlife?

"Afterlife?" (242)

No, something much more mundane; a word we often see,
both as a noun and as a verb, in LT

catalogue....but I looked it up so we could jump start the thread again.....good stumper, roland! So go ahead with another......

" Tis only SO (- -illustrating a strangling motion - -),
and then the deed is done,
And I will love thee and
__ __ __ __ __ __ * thee
for it."

Richard III
by William Shakespeare

*verb; would probably be "advance" in modern English

proceed ???

revere?

"proceed" is close (but has one
letter too many, and the prefix is
"pre-" not "pro-".

"revere" is wrong, though plausible.
(the speaker, Richard, isn't of a
"reverent" temperament.

prepay?

"prepay" - - No, although
there must have been such an activity, but probably no
such verb as yet in Shakespeareʻs time.

What Richard III is promising the hired killer
(Sir James Tyrrell) is not money, but advancement --using a verb which doesnʻt usually have that sense in modern English.

prefer ?

"prefer" is right! (245>251)

Please set the "NEXT".

I would not never have guessed it if you hadn't said that it began "pre".

From The Pathway by Henry Williamson:

"The room was lit by a paraffin lamp, the glass of which was __ __ __ __ __ __ with a smoky film."

"g l o s s y" ?

No, not as bright as "glossy".

" s o o t e d " ???

A good guess, but no, not 'sooted'.

This word is also used to describe a mood; somewhat sad perhaps, or gloomy.

"m o r b i d" ?

No, not as deathly as morbid, but possibly grave, nonetheless.

"g l a z e d" ?

" d a r k e n " ???

Coated?....oops...not a mood

" f i l m e d " ???

Perhaps it is time to try another sentence.

The answer was:

"The room was lit by a paraffin lamp, the glass of which was sombre with a smoky film."

I was all thinking about a verb in the past tense. What can the glass be "sombre" , it is a non-living, man-made article? A wrong choice of words, a book was written on 1927 ??? Do you think so?

No, not a wrong choice of word, but a different use of the word to the one you are familiar with.

Two meanings and examples from Oxford Dictionaries: (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sombre)

1. Dark or dull in colour or tone:
the night skies were sombre and starless

2. Having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness:
he looked at her with a sombre expression

Again from from The Pathway by Henry Williamson:

Benjamin lifted his eyes, with their blank dark look, from the bound copy of The English Boy's Annual he had been reading so __ __ __ __ __ __ in a wicker chair.

" c l o s e l y " ???

Avidly?

Not closely (too many letters) or avidly, which is close.

As you've realised, it is an adverb ending in 'ly'.

have you noticed that "closely" is only 6 letters word ?

keenly ???

> 272 No, I hadn't noticed that "closely" is only 6 letters word.

How do you make that? It keeps coming to 7 when I count it.

Not "keenly", the word implies more absorption than that.

I need to go to the optician this weekend. Illusion ?

agogly ???

deeply?

A good guess, but no.

The answer could imply that the person was so absorbed that they were carried away mentally or spiritually to another place. A bit more than just being wrapped up in what they were doing.

raptly ???

deeply?

Please don't quit if we are wrong...I enjoy the guessing as much as whether it is right or wrong....

>277 razzamajazz: Yes, "raptly" it is. Did you spot the phonetic clue (wrapped) in #276?
Over to you.

From: The Family Corleone by Ed Falco, once again.
Hint: from the word, wrapped

I am currently reading this novel, a prequel to Mario Puzo - The Godfather, a working of Mafia, American-Italian's "money-making" illicit mega establishment.

....To see the top of the building ,the needlelike antenna _______(8) a pale blue sky ,he leaned into the window frame and pressed his face against the glass. He had..................

Note: Simple. Think carefully!

"piercing" ?

Your answer is correct.

It is really a simple puzzle. What do use a needle for?

Next puzzle from you.

It's alway simple when you know the answer! :-)

Since it's been 10 days, I hope it will not annoy anyone if I put up a puzzler!

From Maidenhair by Mikhail Sjisjkin:

"See the antenna in the distance, in the sunset, like an _ _ _ _ _ _ in amber?

"insect" ?

Oi.....you got it!! Over to you.....I need to dig deeper next time.

"need to dig deeper. . ." 283>285

Well, Iʻm no expert on insects OR amber; itʻs just that Iʻve never heard of amber "having" anything "in it" EXCEPT insects!

NEXT:

"Mr. Laurie could talk "Texas", or he
could talk "__ __ __ __
Street".
punctuation added.

The Far Arena
by Richard Ben Sapir

Main?

Home ???

288-289

Not "main or "home"
but a common 4-letter word

Mine???

Not "mine". It is really a noun, but used as an adjective here. whatever gave the "Street" this name
is probably long past.

Wall?

287 > 293

"WALL Street" is right!
- - as in "talk ʻTexasʻ or talk ʻWall Streetʻ "
--Richard Ben Sapir

Please set the "NEXT".

From Elsewhere edited by Eliot Weinberger:

"You might say the streets flow _ _ _ _ _ _ _ through the night."

rapidly ?

quickly???

No....an adverb indeed......

orderly ???

No.....more poetic

"ghostly" ?

b t w, is the "maximum of 3 guesses" Rule (See #1) still in force?

3rd attempt: "sweetly"

That's it, razz! Take it away!

FROM: Who Moved The Stone ? by Frank Morrison

" It is impossible to read the records of the period without being _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

(10 letters) impressed by the way in which, for friend and foe alike,the tomb of

Jesus sinks into utter and undisturbed oblivion. "

Note: It is a test for the choice of words suitable in the sentence. You have probed the mind of the writer.

incredibly?

Nope. Far from the right word used by the writer. Good attempt.

profoundly?

Yes, You are right.

From Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson:

"Mr. French was not an unkind man, but he took an _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _' _ delight in unanswerable questions." (11 letters)

i n q u i s i t o r ' s ???

Wow! You got it!

Mr. French will be anxious { curious ) (eager to answer} to tackle unsolved questions. What can be a closest word to the (above) words, it is being inquisitive,adjective, a noun will be a "inquisitor" , a person who is inquisitive. The punctuation ( 's ) followed after an, and the word to be followed must be a word starting with a vowel's letters( A,E,I,O,U).

(It is really a "guessing game" but with a bit of analysis and "choice of words" selection may lead to a correct answer..)

Other members are most welcome to join the FUN. Submit a new sentence/dialogue/monologue with a missing word from a fiction or nonfiction book.

"Other members . . .submit a new sentence. . ." (312)

"Such (neo-Kantian) views can hardly be called popular today. But perhaps they are out of favor less because there are
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ objections to them than because they fail to accord with our current metaphysical prejudices."

Kantʻs Rational Theology
by Allen W. Wood

Theoretical?

Not "Theoretical"
(adjective, but one that gives "objections"
more enhancement than that.)

unpre/ceden/t ???

Not "unprecedent"
but it does have a negating
prefix: __N...

"unthi/nkabl/e" ???

"unthinkable" is close, but not quite.
It has the negating prefix, (which in this case is "in-", not "un-") and the correct suffix }-able_.
The middle " __ __ __ __ __", unllke "-think-" is more rarely seen by itself; taken by itself, it would be an adjective - - originally a preposition.

Jump start........

"_ _ _ _ _ _ is made of music, he said; _ _ _ _ _ _ is made of names, I maintained."

From Navidad & Matanza by Carlos Labbe..............same word for both spots.

(313>319, b t w was
"insuperable".)

320:
litany?

Nope.....

ritual ?

Nope.......

Hint: It is also a famous broadway musical hit......

The Sound of Music

sound ???

Nice guess.......don't "forget" the musical about felines....

"Reggae" ?

Cats ???

Memory ???

Memory it is....take it away, razz!

Taken from: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence

Witness Bernard Shaw, one of the greatest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (9) of our civilization.

"statesmen" ?

(I realize GBS wasnʻt in politics; being a Socialist
he wouldnʻt have stood much of a chance, but I thought
DHL might have regarded him as a (potential) statesman.)

Wrong.

Linguists?

Incorrect.

Musicians?

Witnesses?

Wrong.

The missing word is a "noun" and do not denote any "profession" or "occupation".

The word is more a "general" , and can apply to both gender- male and female.

The word meant to be good in his/her field of expertise.

What is the appropriate word to describe to be one of the famous or well-acknowledged or recognized in one particular sport,profession,fine arts - ballet, self-defence fields.

eg. Bruce Lee was one of the greatest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _(9) in the art of oriental's self defence.

I will used a same word in the above sentence.

By now, it is very easy to solve the puzzle. The answer is "glaring" at you. Very simple.

o b s e r v e r s ?

' e x p o n e n t s" is the missing word after unsuccessful attempts 2 times by roland, and 3 times by hem.

Anybody can start a new puzzle. I passed.

NEXT:

" 'Do you mean Oartians have sprung the

__ __ __ __ __ __ trap

which seems to

block and limit human thought? And

which is being absolutely rigidified to

yes / no paths by computers?ʻ "

(adjective which will be seen often
by those who read in the field of computer science -- but not usually
in combination with the noun "trap".)

The Sykaos Papers
by E. P. Thompson

e x e c u t e ???

binome?

"Binome" (344) is very close.
(Iʻm no expert on this. Iʻve heard/seen "binomIAL, but not "binome";"binomial", however is too long.)

"Execute": (343) No, that is 1-letter too long, and my word is an adjective, not a verb. The author, b t w, normally wrote History, not novels.

b i n a r y ???

"Binary" is right!
Please set the "NEXT".

From: A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Other Essays by D H Lawrence

" A great many men and women today are happiest when they abstain and stay sexually apart,
quite _ _ _ _(4) and at the same time, when they understand and realize sex more fully."

"pure" ?

You almost get the answer.

The missing word is quite similar to " pure " but in a lesser degree.

Fair?

Incorrect.

The word is describing " a condition " or " a state " of a person's sexuality status.

I keep thinking of 5 letter words...I give up

roland: Two more attempts to go

>>>>

>>>>

Easy?

Fair?

Clean - is the missing word.

NEXT:
From English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell

"Although he wrote a book on his sporting trips in the Highlands, the boredom of which was commented upon by that - - - - - - - - in that quality, Sir Walter Scott....

(8 letters)

"indulger" ?

No, more the sense that Scott was an expert in being a bore

virtuoso ?

Well done!

ʻ(The delegates) sat down in an
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __;* the servant opened a mahogany folding-door which he shut after him, and announced to his master the arrival of the delegates.

Sybil, or the Two Nations
by Benjamin Disraeli

*(noun with a latinate prefix.)

ante-chamber ??? ( 11)

"antechamber" is right!

Please set the next

Clifford made a little conversation with ,to show his complete _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ :(9)
about Aunt Eva ,who was at Dieppe, and about Sir Malcolm,who had written to ask would Connie drive with him in his small car,to Venice,or would she and Hilda go by train.

Taken from:

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence

"debonair" ?

Disregard your answer. I have changed the puzzle.

Try to find out the missing word.

368
/
"... his complete
i g n o r a n c e" about Aunt Eva. . ." ?

Incorrect.

"i n n o c e n c e" ?

Wrong answer.

Quite close.

A word to describe a state of a person.

Knowledge?

No.

unconcern?

Wrong.