"Mercutio: O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman..." Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, scene 4 William Shakespeare #BookWormSat (fairies)

With only two letters in the right word, I thought I wasn't going to make my 2! @callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1301: 2/6 🟨🟪🟪🟪⬜ ⬜🟪⬜⬜ 🟨🟪⬜ 🟪🟪⬜ 🟪⬜🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"He felt the subtle battle brotherhood more potent even than the cause for which they were fighting. It was a mysterious fraternity born of the smoke and danger of death." The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane #BookWormSat

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not... One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more..." Holy Sonnet X John Donne #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1271: 2/6 🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟪⬜⬜⬜ 🟪⬜⬜ 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1265: 2/6 🟪🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜🟪🟨⬜ 🟪🟪 🟪⬜🟪🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"The patient was a boy of 16 or 17...and the symptoms were an anaemic pallor and a languid prostration, accompanied by...an abnormal appetite. He had too, on his throat two small punctures..." Mrs. Amworth E.F. Benson #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Connections Puzzle #867 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪🥴

I fell asleep and can't find @callie99.bsky.social . This Phrazle took a few minutes. Phrazle 1263: 2/6 🟨🟨🟪🟨🟨⬜🟪 ⬜🟪⬜🟪 🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟪🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1259: 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"Whoever has no house now will not build one anymore. Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long time, will stay up, read, write long letters, and wander the avenues, up and down, restlessly, while the leaves are blowing." Autumn Day Rainer Maria Rilke #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social My 1200th win. Phrazle 1243: 2/6 ⬜⬜🟪⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟪🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1239: 2/6 🟪🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟪 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray, and 4 times out of 5, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise." What Stumped the Blue Jays Mark Twain #BookWormSat (short story)

"Long contact with the human race has developed in it the art of diplomacy, and no Roman Cardinal of medieval days knew better how to ingratiate himself than a cat with a saucer of cream on its mental horizon." The Achievement of the Cat Saki (H.H. Munro) #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1215: 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"The engine of the express stood motionless, losing by a valve a great jet of steam, which ascended...to spread into small clouds, and sprinkle the boundless veil of mourning drawn across the sky with white tears." The Human Beast Emile Zola (tr. Ernest Vizetelly) #BookWormSat

The Wordle Fail Trivia: If you were on a ship, and plagued by dreams, night after night, of a disaster about to befall the ship, would you leave, even if it meant spending more to complete your trip? @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @mrlepus.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social

"Remembraces were abandoned. The spectre of Camille which had been evoked came and seated itself between the newly married pair, in front of the flaming fire." Thérèse Raquin Emile Zola (tr. Ernest Vizatelly) #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1193: 2/6 🟪⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1185: 2/6 🟩 ⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1183: 2/6 🟪🟪🟨🟨⬜ 🟪⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1181: 2/6 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live." Résumé Dorothy Parker #BookWormSat

For @callie99.bsky.social in the morning. Phrazle 1173: 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟪 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Happy and tired. Connections Puzzle #821 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1169: 2/6 🟨🟪🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @martian-observer.art I am so baffled by today's Connections, I wanna give up and go back to the headcrackers in Black Belt kakuro! (harder than Absolutely Nasty 2, BTW) 😬 Good night!

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1167: 2/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟪🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden Henry David Thoreau #BookWormSat

@apstrange.bsky.social Just read a post on X by a woman who found her aunt's ring, which had disappeared over a year ago, on the floor that she had cleaned at least 2x a week before. I have company! My pen appeared under my chair, after a whole apt. painting and numerous floor cleanings.

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1157: 2/6 ⬜🟨🟪🟪 🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟪 ⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟪🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1153: 2/6 ⬜⬜🟪🟨🟪 🟪🟩⬜🟪 ⬜🟩🟪⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"At first it meant Allied Mastercomputer and then it meant Adaptive Manipulator and later it developed sentience and they called it an Aggressive Menace, but by then it was too late..." I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison #BookWormSat

That was awful. I had to google 2 words. @callie99.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Connections Puzzle #811 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟨🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1151: 2/6 🟨🟪🟪 ⬜⬜🟪⬜ 🟪🟪🟪🟪⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1147: 2/6 ⬜⬜ 🟪🟩⬜🟪 ⬜⬜🟩 🟪⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1145: 2/6 🟨🟪⬜🟪 🟪🟪⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

I think I owe a trivia post, so here's something I just read about. @callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @mrlepus.bsky.social On December 1 1948, the body of a well-dressed man was found on Somerton Beach in Australia. He had been poisoned, with digitalis.

"So had they slain (Sir Perceval) had not the good knight Sir Galahad come there by adventure. And when he saw all the knights upon one, he cried out "Save me that knight's life!" Then he rode towards the 20 men-at-arms as fast as his horse might drive." The Quest of the Sangreal #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1137: 2/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1133: 2/6 🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Connections Puzzle #801 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1131: 2/6 🟨🟪🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩🟪 🟪🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟪⬜🟨 🟨🟪 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1129: 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟪🟪⬜ ⬜🟪 🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social The short ones are tough. Phrazle 1125: 2/6 🟪🟪 ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"I had read in books that art is not easy But no one warned that the mind repeats In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still The black swan of trespass on alien waters." Durer: Innsbruck 1495 Ern Malley (the poet who was never born) #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1117: 2/6 ⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩🟪🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@pombalstoat.bsky.social Do you collect old watches? I've been looking for a no-battery watch, like I used to wind up. I have 3 watches in need of batteries, and I suspect the local stores of selling me used batteries that last less than a year. Do you know a good watch brand?

@callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 1111: 2/6 🟪🟪🟨 🟨🟪⬜⬜ 🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟪⬜ 🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle