Quadrivial Quandary: Logophiles, Rejoice! Each day we give you four unusual words. Can you fit them all in one illustrative sentence?

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After the durance of a long, dark winter, the sunshine of the lengthy summer days invited the small children to frolic around the wooden frame of the umiak and to refuse entry to any makebates wanting to join their games, which allowed their mothers to treat the hard work of flensing the walrus carcasses as a social gathering.

(by wordgirl)

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She had the durance to appear merry and frolicking in the face of the media literally flensing and eating her alive under the pretense that she was the makebate of some major scandal.

(by rochi)
The Quandary for Monday, June 25, 2012 consisted of: Challenge: use all four words together in one illustrative sentence.

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