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"She cried for an hour and then thrashed and lay still and got up and threw up and lay down and cried again, until it was too dark to see and she fell into a half sleep, her head full of (phantasms). Each time she looked up, there was the strange, tiny, semihuman face staring in at her through the screen. It was a bad and long night, and she did not sleep until nearly dawn."

Phantasms   a figment of the imagination or disordered mind. (merriam-webster dictionary)
2. "Far off to the east stood the campanile on the UC campus, shining like a needle."

Campanile   A bell tower not attached to a building......(Free Dictionary)

 3. Cere a usually waxy protuberance or enlarged area at the base of the bill of a bird. (Merriam-Webster dict.)

"He read several times Forshaw's description of the Alexandrine, relishing the guilty pleasure that arose from knowing that he would never have admitted to admiring anything so poetic in other literature: generl plumage green; cheeks suffused with bluish-grey; faint blackish stripe from cere to eyes." Alexandrine parrot

Comments

bermudaonion said…
I knew phantasm but would have guessed a campanile was a plant of some sort.
October 15, 2014 at 8:53 AM
B Reading said…
Phantasm makes sense re. phantom. I should have remembered campanile I have come across that word, a French word which we came across in a cross word puzzle. Cere is new.
October 15, 2014 at 9:15 AM
Anonymous said…
I never heard of the last two words, interesting.
October 15, 2014 at 12:25 PM
Margot said…
I knew campanile because there was one where I went to college. Phantasm is new to me. I'm going to try to use it in my writing.
October 15, 2014 at 1:13 PM
Tea said…
Glad all of you stopped by. Campanile does seem like a plant name. I want to get back to crosswords. Use to do them as a teenager. Stopped for some reason. Thanks for the reminder. Bye.
October 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM
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