Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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parvenu

The semantic test confirmed this. In the Marxist language, your opponent was always a parvenu, an upstart, an adventurer, a politician was always cheap, and an opportunist vulgar

—p.260 Ghostly Father, I Confess (247) by Mary McCarthy
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distich

Lacedaemonians, shed a tear … Maestius lacrimis Simonideis. The distich of grief was not for her.

—p.259 Ghostly Father, I Confess (247) by Mary McCarthy
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salutary

In the apartment, he took her twice with a zeal that was somehow both business-like and insane, and then rolled over on his back and sighed deeply, like a man who has completed some disagreeable but salutary task

—p.207 FIVE Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man (165) by Mary McCarthy
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paterfamilias

the Jewish paterfamilias was not the only figure that kept hovering behind your host’s well-padded shoulder

—p.150 The Genial Host (135) by Mary McCarthy
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soubrette

She giggled like a soubrette. The giggle was quite out of character at the moment, but she had not been able to resist it.

—p.99 The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (79) by Mary McCarthy
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