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

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(verb) to invoke evil on; curse / (verb) to utter curses

32

Driscoll’s imprecations were all that the worst could desire; and Leith already looked to a future in which he might forget them.

—p.32 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago

Driscoll’s imprecations were all that the worst could desire; and Leith already looked to a future in which he might forget them.

—p.32 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago

a speech disorder marked by distortions of sounds or substitution of letters

59

Spreading a double page of Japanese characters, he uttered a stream of mad, paralaliac sounds, his comic rendering of Japanese.

—p.59 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago

Spreading a double page of Japanese characters, he uttered a stream of mad, paralaliac sounds, his comic rendering of Japanese.

—p.59 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago

(noun) a plant (as a fruit tree) trained to grow flat against a support (as a wall) / (noun) a railing or trellis on which fruit trees or shrubs are trained to grow flat / (verb) to train as an espalier / (verb) to furnish with an espalier

72

We’d never seen espaliered trees, and thought they must be blitzed or dead.

—p.72 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago

We’d never seen espaliered trees, and thought they must be blitzed or dead.

—p.72 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago

(adjective) born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn / (adjective) cold and steady in mood; slow to act or change / (adjective) of a gloomy or surly disposition / (adjective) having a sardonic aspect

253

The mixture of sandy and saturnine, and a stalwart couple with Maori blood

—p.253 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago

The mixture of sandy and saturnine, and a stalwart couple with Maori blood

—p.253 by Shirley Hazzard
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1 year, 1 month ago