"she noted that even in his delerium he took good aim."
pg.183harper perenial modern classicsanother form of
delerious
"'Mis' Janie,'' Hezekiah began sullenly next day, ''you oughtn't 'low dat Tea
Cake tuh de house wid yuh.'"
"Mah britches is just as long as his."
"Ah means tuh put mah hands tuh de plow heah, and strain every nerve tuh
make dis out town de metropolis uh de state."
"They tried hard to hold it in, but enough indredulous laughter burst our
of their eyes and leaked from the corners of their mouths to inform anyone of
their thoughts."
" At the newel post Janie whirled around and for the space of a thought she was lit up like a transfiguation."
"When Ah come round de lake 'bout noontime mah wife and some others had ' inn flat on de ground usin' his sides fuh uh wash board."
"There was the matter of the spittoons."
"The younger boys had to rig up the saw-horses with boards..."
"...Ah'd rathur be shot wid tacks..."
"...pies and cakes and sweet p'tater pones."
"...he took off with ponderous flight..."
"...none of them had the temerity to challenge him."
"Wait till you see de new blue satin Tea Cake done picked out for me tuh stand up wid him in."p. 115
"Better than the jook and the pool-room unless some special band was playing for a dance."p. 131
"He saw a cow swimming slowly towards the fill in an oblique line."p. 165
"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her."p. 11
"All night now the jooks clanged and clamored."p. 131
" It happened over one of those dinners that chasten all women sometimes."
"It was a contest in hyperbole and carried on for no other reason."
Us got plenty syrup in de barn. Ribbon-cane syrup.Modern Classics
You figger Ah'm uh rounder and uh pimp and you done wasted too much time talkin' wid me.Modern Classics
Thought y'all might lak uh lil music this evenin' so Ah brought long mah box.Modern Classics
He cautioned her about about the catches on the windows and doors and swaggered off to Winter Park.Modern Classics
She almost apologized to the tenants the first time she collected the rents. Felt like a usurper.Modern Classics
"They came to the store and ostentatiously looked over whatever things like"Mr. Starks need somebody tuh sorta look out for 'im till he kin git on his feet again and look for hisself."
"Just g'wan back home and set down on you' royal diasticutis and say nothin."
"Ah ruther be shot with tacks that tuh hear dat 'bout mahself," Lig Moss commiserated."
"Aw 'tain't no sich a varmint nowhere dat kin eat no house!"
"Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playingFlorida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there."
" The minister grew comparatively calm".
"where, asked he, with a look askance at them".
" Thus Roger Chillingworth scrutinized his patient carefully".
" But it was a remarkable attribute of this garb, and indeed of the childs whole
appearance".
" I have striven with my young brother here, under whose preaching of the word
you have been privelaged to sit".
Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of
the water.
Bantam Classic
Pg. 152
i beleive this means to ask or suggest.
"Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosityBantam Classic
to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath
him and show the wavering track of his footsteps..."
"The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no."
Bantam Classic
pg.170
I am assuming that because it sounds like "hill" this word is similar to it.
Maybe it is a mound of dirt or some kind of formation like that.
"Or might it suffice him that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deletorious and malignant at his touch?"
"So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as
real."Bantam Classic
pg.192
I believe this is a vision or something to hope for, a goal.
"Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee
in this strange fashion?"
"Under the appelation of Roger Chillingworth, the reader will remember, was
hidden another name, which its former wearer had resolved should never more be
spoken."
"Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was
a grassy plot..."
"it might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to
the lack of demonstration in her manners."
".. it truly seemed that this sagacious, experienced, benevolent old physician,
with his concord of paternal and reverntial love for the young pastor, was the
very man of all mankind to be constantly within reach of his voice."
" her only really comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep."
"it now writhed in convulsions of pain, and was a frocible type, in its little
frame.."
"Indeed hath he, answered the magistrate, and hath adduced such arguments that we will even leave the matter as it now stands."Bantam Classic
"As the light drew nearer, he beheld, within its illuminated circle, his brother clergyman, the Reverend Mr. Wilson; who as Mr. Dimmesdale now conjectured, had been praying at the bedside of some dying man. "Bantam Classic
"Her only real comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep."Bantam Classic
"The moment that he did so there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own, pouring like a torrent into his heart and hurrying through all his veins..."
"As a physician, with the minister's physical and spiritual infirmities,that
theses bad opportunities had been turned to a cruel puspose."
Bantman Classic
Chp 15 Page 174
Infirmities has to to with being sick. A synonym for illness or sickness. I have heard this word used in other books, and also a infirmiry is a place you go when you are sick.
"In allowing the minister to be thrown into a position where so much evil was to
be foreboded, and nothing auspicious to be hoped."
"with a strange remoteness and intangibility; it was as if she were hovering
in the air and might vanish."
Batman Classic
chp5 page 84
I think intangibility may mean something that really cant be grasped or preceived. At Dictionary.com it is an adjective that could mean incapable of being perceived by the senses.
"Save by a flush of crimson that rose irrepressibly over her pale cheek, and
again subsided into the depths of her bosom."
"What little bird of scarlet plummage may this be"?
"Ah, but, interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart."
"Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet
depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old
man,
which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal
had
ever
wreaked upon an enemy."
"Mother and daughter stood together in the same circle of seclusion from human society; and in the nature of the child seemed to be perpetuated those unquiet elements that had distracted Hester Prynne before Pearls birth."
"Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy"
"to find yourself, at length, in a land where iniquity is searched out"
"But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this
kind could not so indubitably be drawn."
Bantam Classic
Ch 2 pg 47
I think this word means unquestionable.
"Baby-linen- for babies then wore robes of state- afforded still another
possibility of toil and emolument."
"As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by
rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailor, thought fit to
introduce a physician."
"Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter
be engraved upon her
tombstone."
"It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at
least, stand on the scaffold by her side."
