The Prisoner of Zenda (42 page)

If our two
PHRASE
if both our
If our two loves be one
(
The Good-Morrow
by John Donne)

ignis-fatuus
NOUN
ignis-fatuus is the light given out by burning marsh gases, which lead careless travellers into danger
it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
(
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë)

imaginations
NOUN
here imaginations means schemes or plans
soon drove out those imaginations
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

impressible
ADJ
impressible means open or impressionable
for Marner had one of those impressible, self-doubting natures
(
Silas Marner
by George Eliot)

in good intelligence
PHRASE
friendly with each other
that these two persons were in good intelligence with each other
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

inanity
NOUN
inanity is sillyness or dull stupidity
Do we not wile away moments of inanity
(
Silas Marner
by George Eliot)

incivility
NOUN
incivility means rudeness or impoliteness
if it's only for a piece of incivility like
to-night's
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

indigenae
NOUN
indigenae means natives or people from that area
an exotic that the surly indigenae will not recognise for kin
(
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë)

indocible
ADJ
unteachable
so they were the most restive and indocible
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

ingenuity
NOUN
inventiveness
entreated me to give him
something as an encouragement to ingenuity
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

ingots
NOUN
an ingot is a lump of a valuable metal like gold, usually shaped like a brick
Tom called the hogs ‘ingots'
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)

inkstand
NOUN
an inkstand is a pot which was put on a desk to contain either ink or pencils and pens
throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke
(
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll)