- 14.013 and fro cheering on the archers
- 14.018 But there was still a company of archers
- 17.036 There are many of our archers
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Apron
- 02.002 So he put on an apron,
Apprentice
- 01.122 Fathers would beg us to take their sons as apprentices,
Apple-tart
- 01.053 and apple-tart,’ said Bifur.
As simple as apple slices wrapped in pastry, as complex as the exotic spices you might choose to add. I generally don’t add sugars to apple-based sweets and let the delicious fruit’s own sweetness shine. Can you tell I come from apple country? I hope you do, too!
Once again, OED does not list the hyphen in the spellings, but does have it in the samples from 1700s and 1800s. Now I’m hungry.
“apple, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
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Appall
- 07.018 He can be appalling when he is angry,
Anyway
- 02.056 anyways?” said William.
Ancestor
- 01.004 that long ago one of the Took ancestors
- 01.122 It had been discovered by my far ancestor,
- 03.032 and heroes of the North for ancestors,
- 03.045 and my first ancestor:
Amble
- 02.028 and then a dwarf or a farmer ambling by on business.
Alley
- 01.123 and lanes, and tunnels, alleys, cellars, mansions and passages.
Alder
- 19.013 Lullaby! Lullaby! Alder and Willow!