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cynic Astronomy of or relating to Sirius, the Dog Star Cynic a member of a sect founded by Antisthenes that scorned worldly things and held that self-control was the key to the only good How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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So the Cynic turned out of the road to let the Optimist roll by in his gold carriage. Though Thackeray is no cynic he is a satirist as much as Pope or Dryden, but the most kindly satirist who ever wrote. As the Cynic spoke, several of the party were startled by a gleam of red splendor, that showed the huge shapes of the surrounding mountains and the rock-bestrewn bed of the turbulent river with an illumination unlike that of their fire on the trunks and black boughs of the forest trees. |
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