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Word lists shared by our community of dictionary fans. Sign up now or Log in. Definitions Clear explanations of natural written and spoken English. Click on the arrows to change the translation direction. Follow us. Choose a dictionary. In literature: My counsel does not keep men in office. Jim watched him with ill-suppressed impatience, keeping up a constant stream of necessary counsel.
No one, save Mrs. Lennard, had discovered that Elsie had a secret, and the old lady could keep her own counsel. Therefore, I resolved to keep my own counsel for the present, and to make a few inquiries in order to satisfy my curiosity. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say. The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
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