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The Drop Letter Proverb—
E..t. .e.s..s .a.e .h. .o.. ..i.e, is—Empty vessels make the most noise.
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The English word of five syllables, which has eight letters, five of them vowels—namely an a, an e, twice i, and y—is Ideality.
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TORMENT may be turned into RAPTURE, using four links, changing only one letter each time, and varying the order of the letters, thus: TORMENT, portent, protest, pratest, praters, RAPTURE.