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  1. Unhappiness / It is the order of; Unhappy / Our own order; Unhinge / Our own special order (1879) bit.ly/KZ3xoY #codephrase about 22 hours ago via web
  2. Savoyard / Unless he does; Sawfish / Unless he don't… Scarlet / In store. (1879) bit.ly/KsSia8 #codephrase #shortsentences 7:11 AM May 24th via web
  3. Sawdust / Can't you circumvent this?; Savagery / Had we not better? (1879) bit.ly/KsSia8 #codephrase #shortsentences 5:20 AM May 24th via web
  4. "…and then, because the undertaking as a whole is ruined, dabbles wretchedly in details…" bit.ly/JX72xV #fragments #papiertapeten 8:43 PM May 18th via web
  5. 6751 / Send word; 6752 / In a few words… Fragments of wreck / 7065 (1864) bit.ly/J6RuWm #codephrase 10:56 AM May 18th via web
  6. @dreamyshade 19c steam locomotive, pre wireless? 3:05 PM May 6th via web in reply to dreamyshade
  7. @nininditya bagus. sudah mendengar/nontonnya dgn senang, teristimewa weaving puisi dan kegiatan kehidupan normal itu. 5:56 AM May 4th via web in reply to nininditya
  8. Typorgraphically. ad. 1. emblematically; figuratively. 2. after the manner of printers. (1756) bit.ly/GWKsHl 7:03 PM Mar 27th via web
  9. 6707 Hidden / Not hopeless… 6896 Ideology / In igneous rock (1888) bit.ly/GQTq80 #codephrase 4:52 PM Mar 25th via web
  10. "Hastily I looked away and wrote 'One boiled egg, glass of milk' like I was sending a desperate telegram…" (1922) bit.ly/yiTtw8 6:06 PM Mar 17th via web
  11. words… words… words… xxxvii 794 / these are) words of course… a) world of trouble (1817) bit.ly/zzOmRJ #codephrase 7:47 PM Mar 14th via web
  12. yedic / bottom of drift; yedod / face of drift; yeduf / lower drift; yedyg / main drift (1907) bit.ly/yH7tKW #phrasecode 6:24 PM Mar 8th via web
  13. 35437 Emblemata / Harvest is fair; 35439 Embleme / Harvest is poor (1900) bit.ly/xrJs2W #codephrase 8:59 PM Feb 28th via web
  14. 0134 Acclivity / Adequate to the occasion (1881) bit.ly/zutLXG #codephrase 7:27 PM Feb 28th via web
  15. 'Oh, pshaw!' said the Whaup. 'Fancy romance in a #hardware store! It's impossible. It's absurd!' bit.ly/AaXC18 Gelett Burgess (1906) 1:14 PM Feb 18th via web
  16. sometimes more sometimes less (Gertrude Stein, Making of Americans, 1925/1995) bit.ly/xFlv5t #codephrase 10:27 AM Feb 5th via web
  17. 90-904 / Sometimes more, sometimes less (Macdonald, A Treatise Explanatory, 1817) bit.ly/yZKgv0 #codephrase 10:24 AM Feb 5th via web
  18. 122 / Along shore; 123 / Along with; 124 / Along with them… 127 / Alphabet; 128 / Already prepared (1817) bit.ly/xYozXJ #codephrase 10:47 AM Jan 21st via web
  19. re-presentation of #codephrase tweets at bit.ly/Axe3yQ (some corrections, and links to notes on respective codes) #twitterature 10:14 AM Jan 15th via web
  20. royka / About this… rucre / While this, rucsi / Why this, ructo / With this / rucus / Without this (1911) bit.ly/A3uqhO #codephrase 9:48 AM Jan 13th via web
  • Name John McVey
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