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Klimt
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foment

Postby Klimt » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:31 pm

1. To promote the growth of; incite.

2. to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (the surface of the body).

Two days previously he had received news that his father, son, and sister had left for Moscow; and though there was nothing for him to do at Bald Hills, Prince Andrew with a characteristic desire to foment his own grief decided that he must ride there.

You are still young--you might be the youngest of my own children--still you have spoken wisely and have counselled the chief of the Achaeans not without discretion; nevertheless I am older than you and I will tell you everything; therefore let no man, not even King Agamemnon, disregard my saying, for he that foments civil discord is a clanless, hearthless outlaw.
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

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Postby Slava » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:46 pm

Would that we could foment some activity on this moribund board. :cry:
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.


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