When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, __he_ is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever species who have achieved the legal status of __oman_. The ancient, dimorphic form __e_, once used exclusively for the genderal indication of males (cf. the archaic term man, pl. men), for more than a hundred-twenty years now, has been reserved for the general sexual object of __he_, during the period of excitation, regardless of the gender of the woman speaking or the gender of the woman referred to.
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In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, __he_ is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever species who have achieved the legal status of __oman_. The ancient, dimorphic form __e_, once used exclusively for the genderal indication of males (cf. the archaic term man, pl. men), for more than a hundred-twenty years now, has been reserved for the general sexual object of __he_, during the period of excitation, regardless of the gender of the woman speaking or the gender of the woman referred to.
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