admixture - a mixture, typically a main ingredient with a second minor ingredient

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Leigh Brackett's The Secret of Sinharat. Kynon sprinkles in Anglo-Saxon profanities in with his Martian swearing as a sandstorm approaches suddenly from the north.

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skirl - a shrill, wailing sound, especially that of bagpipes

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Leigh Brackett's The Secret of Sinharat. Eric John Stark watches as Kynon of Shun's caravan approaches the city of Valkis.

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Virgil Finlay back cover illustration for the Leigh Brackett story, "The Road to Sinharat" from the May 1963 issue of Amazing Stories.

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