miscellany
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From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
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From Salon • Jun. 5, 2021
Filled with one-sentence oddities culled from newspapers and the wire services, Miscellany ran down its third of a page like a ladder, each wee story with its own title—traditionally, and almost invariably, a pun.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 14, 2015
In 1712, the original version of Alexander Pope’s satirical mock-heroic poem “The Rape of the Lock” was published anonymously in Lintot’s Miscellany.
From Washington Times • May 11, 2015
He endured the “whirl of noise and motion,” as Dickens characterized London in his then-current serial, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, which everyone was gobbling up in Bentley’s Miscellany, a literary magazine.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Vocabulary lists containing miscellany
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
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Intermediate, List 6
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Unit 1, Week 3
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