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

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empyrean

The other inescapable new presence is Barneys, a sleek store that displays, across two rather sparsely stocked floors, clothing, accessories and jewelry priced at such an empyrean level that I am challenged to appreciate the allure of, say, a $1,000 pair of sneakers, a $5,000 purse.

—p.133 You Are Here, You Are Not a Ghost (129) by Granta
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declivated

I was certain I would go sliding to my death, but I managed to curl my fingers into a declivity, and my feet found purchase on a small outcropping

—p.69 The Station (59) by Granta
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declivated

I was certain I would go sliding to my death, but I managed to curl my fingers into a declivity, and my feet found purchase on a small outcropping

—p.69 The Station (59) by Granta
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variegated

It was a C-shape, roughly, variegated gray along the shoreline, grass-green above that, then the moss and dung and black peak.

—p.60 The Station (59) by Granta
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winsome

She looked like the thick-waisted but winsome model who would appear in a magazine next to the words fabulous at any age.

this made me laugh

—p.40 Hold Your Fire (19) missing author
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