Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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bilious

Whew, the day certainly had a funny colour to it – a harp light, but livid, bilious, as if some knot of eco-scuzz still lingered in its lungs

—p.40 by Martin Amis
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desultory

She had wandered through these days desultorily, enjoying the odd mix of memories and emotions that playfully showed their shadows and vanished again.

—p.86 Connection (85) by Mary Gaitskill
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gambrel

Like Grover's house, the Big Houses of the estates also had faces, but without such plain, gambreled honesty

—p.158 The Secret Integration (139) by Thomas Pynchon
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adventitious

Hence, adventitious lectures about tale-telling and geometry.

—p.12 Introduction (1) by Thomas Pynchon
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exigent

What she’s saying is that manifestos, as a genre, aspire to an impossible kind of exigence. They conjure feelings of immediacy that cannot be borne out since, by nature, any published manifesto is doomed to make a delayed entrance

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—p.xviii Introduction (vii) by Sheila Liming
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