tremulous names in book!?

[professor]

ok i was reading a book yesterday(ill leave it nameless) and there is a fugitive that goes on the run. he runs into a group of other bad ppl(they werent that bad, they were reading books which was illegal in the time) and one of them was named granger!  i <3 grangers, so now that is my favorite book lol  lol end of story

[mooseberry]

omg aw-sum 




 

[Survivor]

there's a series of 7 books with a Granger in it...

[mooseberry]

lemme guess, do they use magical wands?

[kozak6]

http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=4987.0

Lately I've been reading HP Lovecraft, and "tremulous" is an adjective he likes to use.

I need visual evidence

"The Whisperer in the Darkness"

The unknown things, Akeley wrote in a script grown pitifully tremulous, had begun to close in on him with a wholly new degree of determination.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nec/hpl/hpl38.htm


"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"

The book was open at about its middle, and one paragraph displayed such thick and tremulous pen-strokes beneath the lines of mystic black-letter that the visitor could not resist scanning it through.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nec/hpl/hpl63.htm


"From Beyond"

It is not pleasant to see a stout man suddenly grown thin, and it is even worse when the baggy skin becomes yellowed or grayed, the eyes sunken, circled, and uncannily glowing, the forehead veined and corrugated, and the hands tremulous and twitching.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nec/hpl/hpl45.htm


"The Dunwich Horror"

He was living in one of the sheds, and Sawyer thought he seemed unusually worried and tremulous.

'Yes, Mis' Corey,' came Sally's tremulous voice over the party wire, 'Cha'ncey he just come back a-postin', and couldn't half talk fer bein' scairt!

The whippoorwills in the glen had screamed with such unusual persistence that many could not sleep, and about 3 A.M. all the party telephones rang tremulously.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nec/hpl/hpl32.htm


"Poetry and the Gods"

Woods and fields are tremulous at twilight with the shimmering of white saltant forms, and immemorial Ocean yields up curious sights beneath thin moons.

http://www.noveltynet.org/content/books/lovecraft/collab/html/poetry.html


Cthulhu fhtagn!

[khalsa]

Good part of that book proffesor is when Granger uses the scent of the bobcat \o/


Khalsa

[professor]

haha thats great...
hmmm i really <3 grangers... i would so totally buy one if i could...

[your face]

I would buy a tyrant to help take over the world.

[Death On Ice]

haha thats great...
hmmm i really <3 grangers... i would so totally buy one if i could...

MG was gonna do granger plushies for a while, dunno what happened. (not enough demand?)

[professor]

idk how that could be! he would make a fortune! like everyone from trem would buy some!

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idk how that could be! he would make a fortune! like everyone from trem would buy some!

as many as the ones who buys tremulous itself :-)

[Kaleo]

TYRANT!

[player1]

dretch

granger

basilisk

marauder

dragoon

tyrant

This is the New Type 17: I Just Discovered that Tremulous contains Actual Words!

[Kaleo]

dretch

granger

basilisk

marauder

dragoon

tyrant

This is the New Type 17: I Just Discovered that Tremulous contains Actual Words!

If only I had the same diligence and love for BBCode that you do, P1...

[player1]

http://rauldesaldanha.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-words.html

Dretch: an obsolete word meaning both ‘to trouble in sleep’ and ‘to be troubled in sleep’. It’s from an Old English word and is unknown in other Germanic languages. A citation from Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur reads “We alle … were soo dretched that somee of vs lepte oute of oure beddes naked.”

http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/women/

If trot “old hag” is akin to trudan ~ treten ~ tread, the history of the obscure English word dratchel or drotchel “an untidy woman; slut” may appear in a new light. At present, this word is remembered only in the midland dialects of Great Britain (rather, it was current there a hundred or so years ago; I have no way of ascertaining its longevity and would be grateful for more information from someone who lives in that part of the world). The last letters of dratchel are a diminutive suffix, a variant of -l, as in girl. This suffix betrays the word’s German (probably northern, that is, Low German) origin. In all probability, girl is also a borrowing from Low German; its earliest meaning was “a young creature of either sex; a creature considered worthless.” Dratchel has an amazing number of relatives in German dialects, both northern and southern. Here are three of them: trutscherl “a sturdy girl or child,” drutschl “a fat peasant woman,” and even trutsch “idiot.” These words were confused with the derivatives of Middle High German trut “dear,” so that their near homonyms often mean “sweetheart.” But Engl. dratchel is a term of disparagement, an apparent congener (related form) of Trude ~ Drude, not of the northern verb dretch “to afflict, torment,” as has been suggested, unless “afflict” has developed from the activity of some incubus of the Trude family. There is also dretch “to delay, linger,” perhaps the same word. Regardless of whether names like Gertrude are part of the picture, we must be dealing with a dangerous female creature that trod heavily, sat on the sleeper’s breast, and became famous in folk belief. Later the name of a monster turned into a mild swear word. (Someone may wonder why people waste their time investigating the origin of a word that hardly anyone knows. We will explain to this benighted person that our perception of the universe is shaped by the language we use. Therefore, the more we learn bout etymology, the better we understand ourselves. It matters little whether the word is alive or dead, for as human beings we are the same as we were millennia ago. Words, we will add, rule the world, and etymologists, by having some control over words, are the most powerful people in creation. Isn’t this reason enough to think deeply about the history of dratchel?)

A Dictionary of English Etymology

To Dretch. To vex, harass, trouble, esp. to trouble with dreams. also to trouble the sight, to deceive.

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

To go heavily or reluctantly, to linger, to delay. (see dratch)