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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quiddity

Biarritz still retained its quiddity

—p.607 FIRST LOVE (604) by Vladimir Nabokov
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lachrymose

My mother died when I was still an infant, so that I can only recall her as a vague patch of delicious lachrymal warmth just beyond the limit of iconographic memory.

—p.582 TIME AND EBB (580) by Vladimir Nabokov
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adumbrate

heavily adumbrated, diamond-bright eye squinting like that of a timorous steed.

like literally outlined? like creased?

—p.575 A FORGOTTEN POET (569) by Vladimir Nabokov
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meretricious

it is with something of a shudder that I recall the meretricious imitation she gave of reaching her vocal climax

—p.553 THE ASSISTANT PRODUCER (546) by Vladimir Nabokov
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contralto

When nowadays in some Russian household the gramophone is put on, and I hear her canned contralto

—p.553 THE ASSISTANT PRODUCER (546) by Vladimir Nabokov
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