15.25 has-been, caffeine, Kathleen, gangrene, gamine, vaccine, fanzine, Charlene, Marlene, guanine, Aileen, scalene, dentine, Hellene, Essene, benzene, benzine, theine, Christine, pristine, Sistine, Springsteen, Crimplene®, windscreen, quinine, strychnine, Eileen, Irene, styrene, flyscreen, glycine, lysine, Nicene, hygiene, Tolkien, tontine, colleen, Colleen, morphine, Pauline, chlorine, Doreen, Maureen, Noreen, fluorine, purine, soybean, codeine, Roedean, protein, smokescreen, bromine, sunscreen, butene, Lutine, * epinephrine, Benedictine, polystyrene, diamorphine, * norepinephrine
15.26 atropine, carrageen, Aberdeen, gabardine, carotene, galantine, trampoline, Jacqueline, Magdalene, naphthalene, gasoline, Vaseline®, tambourine, saccharine, Gadarene, Nazarene, tangerine, Dramamine®, anthracene, Damascene, magazine, Balanchine, aniline, Trasimene, Plasticine®, Halloween, mangosteen, Argentine, margarine, tartrazine, langoustine, crepe de Chine, grenadine, Geraldine, gelatine, seventeen, eglantine, clementine, mescaline, nectarine, pelerine, evergreen, Gretna Green, Bethnal Green, melamine, mezzanine, kerosene, phenazine, fedayeen, Bellarmine, jellybean, pethidine, velveteen, ethylene, methylene, Terylene®, Emmeline, ephedrine, Benzedrine®, epicene, Bernardine, Germolene®, creatine, reconvene, neoprene, Eocene, libertine, nicotine, guillotine, brigantine, brilliantine, Byzantine, intervene, Cymbeline, Windolene®, figurine, Listerine®, glycerine, Hippocrene, silver screen, wintergreen, histamine, limousine, kidney bean, Philippine, Ghibelline, village green, in-between, indigene, iodine, thiamine, tyrosine, isoprene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Constantine, Florentine, quarantine, Josephine, contravene, bottle green, bombazine, olivine, polythene, propylene, olive green, Holocene, oncogene, toluene, tourmaline, soya bean, Ovaltine®, dopamine, overseen, aubergine, bowling green, go-between, haute cuisine, butter bean, runner bean, submarine, putting green, unforeseen, subroutine, wolverine, fullerene, supervene, glutamine, * papaverine, amphetamine, adenosine, promethazine, acetylene, methionine, scopolamine, glucosamine, * betacarotene, polyethylene, antihistamine, nitroglycerine, dryopithecine, catecholamine, polypropylene, antisubmarine, * benzodiazepine, oxyacetylene, australopithecine, trinitrotoluene, buckminsterfullerene, * polytetrafluoroethylene
15.27 cleaned, fiend, gleaned, preened, screened, weaned, * unscreened, unweaned, machined, etc.
15.28 umpteenth, eighteenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, nineteenth, fourteenth, * seventeenth
15.29 beans, Dean’s, greens, jeans, Jean’s, Keynes, means, queens, Queens, scenes, screens, teens, * latrines, sardines, baked beans, Justine’s, * Grenadines, clementines, Milton Keynes, smithereens, limousines, Philippines, aubergines, full of beans, New Orleans, * amphetamines, * antihistamines, etc.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
ROBERT FROST
15.30 beep, bleep, cheap, cheep, creep, deep, heap, Jeep®, keep, leap, neap, neep, peep, reap, seep, sheep, sleep, steep, Streep, sweep, veep, weep, * asleep, équipe, knee-deep, bo-peep, * scrapheap, slagheap, upkeep, upsweep, * chimney sweep, oversleep, * Uriah Heep
15.31 beeps, bleeps, creeps, heaps, neaps, neeps, Pepys, sweeps, weeps, etc.
15.32 cease, crease, fils, fleece, geese, grease, Greece, lease, Nice, niece, peace, piece, Rees, Rhys, * apiece, Matisse, police, sublease, cerise, caprice, Dumfries, De Vries, Denise, MacNeice, pastis, cassis, pelisse, Bernice, surcease, degrease, release, decrease, increase, decease, obese, Cochise, coulisse, * hairpiece, Makepeace, tailpiece, neckpiece, headpiece, set piece, chesspiece, workpiece, earpiece, Greenpeace, eyepiece, timepiece, codpiece, crosspiece, showpiece, mouthpiece, * mantelpiece, ambergris, masterpiece, centrepiece, chersonese, verdigris, re-release, predecease, chimneypiece, altarpiece, War and Peace, frontispiece, * Peloponnese, archdiocese
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.
LEIGH HUNT
15.33 beast, ceased, creased, east, feast, Geest, greased, least, piste, priest, yeast, * uncreased, batiste, artiste, Far East, archpriest, Near East, released, decreased, increased, deceased, northeast, southeast, modiste, * beanfeast, * arriviste, hartebeest, re-released, wildebeest, unreleased, etc.
15.34 fiche, leash, niche, quiche, * unleash, pastiche, Dalglish, rime riche, schottische, postiche, corniche, * hashish, baksheesh, * microfiche, nouveau riche
15.35 beat, beet, bleat, cheat, cleat, Crete, eat, feat, feet, fleet, Fleet, gîte, gleet, greet, heat, leat, leet, lied, meat, meet, mete, neat, peat, Pete, pleat, seat, sheet, skeet, sleet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat, * compete, petite, complete, accrete, conceit, unseat, flat feet, Magritte, maltreat, en suite, dead beat, preheat, reheat, reseat, repeat, defeat, effete, delete, elite, deplete, replete, secrete, discreet, discrete, excrete, retreat, ill-treat, entreat, mistreat, deceit, receipt, gamete, crabmeat, factsheet, heartbeat, mainsheet, deadbeat, Benfleet, helpmeet, spreadsheet, worksheet, aesthete, sweetmeat, freesheet, pigmeat, mincemeat, bystreet, high street, time sheet, offbeat, Longleat, concrete, forefeet, Northfleet, forcemeat, horsemeat, broadsheet, browbeat, downbeat, groundsheet, wholewheat, upbeat, drumbeat, buckwheat, dustsheet, bushmeat, * pentathlete, decathlete, * parakeet, Paraclete, Masorete, marguerite, Marguerite, Harley Street, exegete, meadowsweet, incomplete, bittersweet, indiscreet, indiscrete, trick-or-treat, window seat, spirochaete, driver’s seat, obsolete, polychaete, lorikeet, Downing Street, overeat, overheat, sugar beet, superheat, * Carnaby Street, oligochaete
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgement Seat.
RUDYARD KIPLING
15.36 beats, cheats, eats, Keats, Pete’s, pleats, seats, sheets, streets, sweets, * athletes, backstreets, heartbeats, sweetmeats, etc.
15.37 heath, Heath, Keith, Leith, Meath, ’neath, Reith, sheath, teeth, wreath, * bequeath, beneath, Monteith, * milk teeth, eyeteeth, buckteeth, * Bexleyheath, Cowdenbeath, underneath, * B’nai B’rith
15.38 breathe, Meath, seethe, sheathe, teethe, wreathe, * unsheathe, enwreath, inbreathe, bequeath, * Pontypridd
15.39 breve, cleave, eve, Eve, greave, grieve, heave, leave, Neave, Niamh, peeve, reeve, reive, sheave, sleeve, Steve, thieve, vive, we’ve, weave, Yves, * upheave, aggrieve, perceive, conceive, achieve, Rajiv, French leave, qui vive, khedive, believe, relieve, bereave, reprieve, retrieve, inweave, deceive, receive, naive, * wayleave, shirtsleeve, sick leave, Congreve, * apperceive, make-believe, Tel Aviv, Genevieve, semibreve, preconceive, interleave, interweave, misconceive, disbelieve, oversleeve, undeceive, * recitative, overachieve, underachieve
O what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT
15.40 grieved, heaved, peeved, thieved, * aggrieved, perceived, conceived, achieved, believed, relieved, bereaved, reprieved, deceived, received, long-sleeved, broad-leaved, short-sleeved, * preconceived, interleaved, misconceived, disbelieved, unrelieved, undeceived, etc.
15.41 beeves, eaves, Eve’s, Greaves, grieves, heaves, Jeeves, leaves, Reeves, sheaves, sleeves, thieves, * achieves, believes, deceives, receives, * Hargreaves, shirtsleeves, sneak thieves, tea leaves, Greensleeves, wheatsheaves, fig leaves, flyleaves, * Anne of Cleves, Genevieve’s, semibreves, etc.
15.42 bees, bise, breeze, cheese, Cleese,