User:CarrieBerg/Senses

The serene breeze wended between the slender trees. Elder, yew, elm, beech fleches bent deep then scended, reeled defenseless, when the gentle tempest blew. Tree tethered creepers, well fleshed yet pendent, trembled when the breeze pestered them. Sweet herbs scented the breeze, the fresh essences blew well elsewhere, yet when remembered, tempt the senses. The fleet creek, reckless, heedless, free, veered left then swept west, nestled between terrene trenches. Where the effervescent creek ended, the fens emerged. The fens teemed green where cresses grew. The fens sheltered geese, egrets, grebes, wrens, these tweeted treble, cheeped, screeched, then slept when the eve fell. Dense hedges defended the verge where the desert meets the fens. Few deer, elk crept where the deterrent hedges screened the severe desert. The herds preferred preserved glens, deep settled dells. Wretched sere sedges, nettles, weeds whelmed the desert veld. Deep secret egresses speckled the sheer, steep steppes. The steppes resembled perfect depressed shelves. Vepser descends. The resplendent bejeweled celeste spheres wheel delft, ember red, merle, then endless seed strewn jet velvet. The erd sleeps, rests. Except the ferrets, sleepless, clever, crept free refreshed... wreck the serene scene.

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This one is fairly obvious - but not as easy as it seems. I took two pages worth of notes, going through two different dictionaries and writing down all the words with the only vowel being "e". I already had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to write about, and so I made extensive use of a thesaurus to find alternative "e"-ful words. It's a shame that there are so few synonyms for "dark, black or night," that have "e's" in them.

What? You don't think some of my words are real? Hah! Little do you know. If it is still in the dictionary, it can still be used! Here are some descriptions of the little known words I used:

Delft: noun: earthenware having an opaque white glaze with an overglaze decoration, usually in blue, or any pottery resembling this. Delft blue is a color, and since I couldn't find many synonyms for blue without "e"s, I chose this word.

Celeste: Latin for heavenly.

Erd: noun: the earth, land, country; in Old English.

Fleches: noun: a slender spire, especially one on a church above the intersection of the nave and transepts. I used it to describe treetops in the forest.

Pendent: adjective: hanging or suspended.

Merle: noun: European blackbird; or as I used it: a bluish gray color mottled with black. Exactly the color the sky turns before ebony takes the heavens.

Scend: verb: to heave or swell.

Terrene: adjective: earthy, worldly; as a noun: the earth; in Middle English.

Vesper: noun: evening; Archaic, Middle English. I couldn't find any other "e"-ful word for night.