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21 chains\ of\ epithets
present a group of homogeneous attributes varying in number from three up to sometimes twenty and even moreYou're a scolding, unjust, abusive, aggravating, bad old creature. (Ch.Dickens)
He's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nosed peacock. (Ch.Dickens)
And then in a nice, old-fashioned, lady-like, maiden-lady way, she blushed. (A.Christie)
And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving, indifferent. (T.S.Eliot)
See: epithetEnglish-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > chains\ of\ epithets
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22 strings\ of\ epithets
present a group of homogeneous attributes varying in number from three up to sometimes twenty and even moreYou're a scolding, unjust, abusive, aggravating, bad old creature. (Ch.Dickens)
He's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nosed peacock. (Ch.Dickens)
And then in a nice, old-fashioned, lady-like, maiden-lady way, she blushed. (A.Christie)
And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving, indifferent. (T.S.Eliot)
See: epithetEnglish-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > strings\ of\ epithets
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23 coal
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- altogether coal
- ample coal
- anthracitic coal
- apple-coal
- ash coal
- average-size coal
- baking coal
- banded coal
- bank coal
- bastard coal
- binding coal
- bituminous coal
- black coal
- blind coal
- block coal
- blocky coal
- board coal
- bone coal
- bony coal
- bottle coal
- bottom coal
- bovey coal
- bright coal
- broken coal
- brown coal
- bumpy coal
- caking coal
- candle coal
- cannel coal
- cinley coal
- coking coal
- coombe coal
- dead coal
- developed coal
- dirty coal
- domestic coal
- dross coal
- drossy coal
- dry coal
- dry burning coal
- easy coal
- fat coal
- fault coal
- fiery coal
- fine coal
- fire coal
- flat coal
- foliated coal
- friable coal
- free-burning coal
- frozen coal
- gas coal
- glance coal
- glossy coal
- graded coal
- grate coal
- ground coal
- hanging coal
- high coal
- hard coal
- hard ash coal
- high coal
- high-grade coal
- high-volatile coal
- house coal
- humic coal
- inferior coal
- jet coal
- large coal
- lean coal
- level coal
- light coal
- lightly pitching coal
- longflame coal
- low-sulphur coal
- low-volatile coal
- lump coal
- meagre coal
- medium volatile coal
- merchantable coal
- metabituminous coal
- metalignitous coal
- metallurgical coal
- mill coal
- mineral coal
- moor coal
- moulded coal
- mushy coal
- nether coal
- noncaking coal
- non-coking coal
- nut coal
- open burning coal
- palm coal
- peacock coal
- pillar coal
- pit coal
- pitch coal
- plastic coal
- plate coal
- possible coal
- powder coal
- powdered coal
- powdery coal
- prepared coal
- produced coal
- proud coal
- pulverized coal
- range coal
- raw coal
- rich coal
- roof coal
- rough coal
- round coal
- run coal
- run-of-mine coal
- saleable coal
- sandwiched coal
- screened coal
- separation coal
- shallow coal
- short-flame coal
- sintering coal
- sized coal
- slack coal
- slate coal
- small coal
- smiddy coal
- smuth coal
- soft coal
- soldering coal
- solid coal
- sooty coal
- sparry coal
- specular coal
- splint coal
- spontaneous combustion coal
- steam coal
- steeply pitching coal
- sticky coal
- stone coal
- stove coal
- subbituminous coal
- sweet coal
- thermal coal
- through coal
- tough coal
- undersea coal
- uninflammable coal
- washed coal
- waste coal
- wood coal
- yolk coal
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