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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osculating

We must not spoil our fun with the small fry of osculatory contacts.

—p.264 A DASHING FELLOW (259) by Vladimir Nabokov
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stolid

The man whom she had loved for his mute omniscience, stolid coarseness, grim perseverance in work, had stolen away.…

—p.258 THE AURELIAN (248) by Vladimir Nabokov
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somnolent

Drowse, a tiny town in the north of England, looked, indeed, so somnolent that one suspected it might have been somehow mislaid among those misty, gentle-sloped fields where it had fallen asleep forever.

—p.240 THE POTATO ELF (228) by Vladimir Nabokov
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pallid

a novella he had excitedly and hopefully composed, whose publication the previous year had done nothing to enhance his secure but pallid reputation.

—p.222 THE CHRISTMAS STORY (222) by Vladimir Nabokov
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crepuscular

The identical newspaper seller uttered his hollow crepuscular cry.

—p.149 THE RETURN OF CHORB (147) by Vladimir Nabokov
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