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(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background

10

The branches dapple him

—p.10 NICHOLAS HOEL (5) by Richard Powers
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The branches dapple him

—p.10 NICHOLAS HOEL (5) by Richard Powers
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(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration

11

John turns his camera on the Hoel Chestnut, his exact coeval

—p.11 NICHOLAS HOEL (5) by Richard Powers
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John turns his camera on the Hoel Chestnut, his exact coeval

—p.11 NICHOLAS HOEL (5) by Richard Powers
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(noun) cotton cloth imported from India / (noun) a plain white cotton fabric that is heavier than muslin / (noun) any of various cheap cotton fabrics with figured patterns / (noun) a blotched or spotted animal / (noun) one that is predominantly white with red and black patches / (noun) black crappie / (noun) mountain laurel

11

He photographs his wife in calico and a crumpled smile, poised over the new mechanical clothes mangle

—p.11 NICHOLAS HOEL (5) by Richard Powers
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He photographs his wife in calico and a crumpled smile, poised over the new mechanical clothes mangle

—p.11 NICHOLAS HOEL (5) by Richard Powers
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(noun) a condition of weariness or debility; fatigue / (noun) a condition of listlessness; languor

36

The shared lassitude of casting, the C of the line as it lengthens in the air, that four-stroke swelling rhythm with the stiff hand stopping at ten and two, the ripple of the dry fly as it alights on the water

—p.36 MIMI MA (24) by Richard Powers
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The shared lassitude of casting, the C of the line as it lengthens in the air, that four-stroke swelling rhythm with the stiff hand stopping at ten and two, the ripple of the dry fly as it alights on the water

—p.36 MIMI MA (24) by Richard Powers
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(noun) a eucharistic rite / (noun) a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship / (noun) a customary repertoire of ideas, phrases, or observances / (noun) the eucharistic rite of Eastern churches

43

They hold a silent liturgy of memory and shock

—p.43 MIMI MA (24) by Richard Powers
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They hold a silent liturgy of memory and shock

—p.43 MIMI MA (24) by Richard Powers
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eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

74

Around lights-out, Prisoner 1037 gets a little truculent at the overdone theatrics

—p.74 DOUGLAS PAVLICEK (73) by Richard Powers
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Around lights-out, Prisoner 1037 gets a little truculent at the overdone theatrics

—p.74 DOUGLAS PAVLICEK (73) by Richard Powers
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complicated; abstruse; curled inwards

81

a pollen-coated wasp crawled down the hole at the tip of a certain green fig and laid eggs all over the involute garden of flowers hidden inside

—p.81 DOUGLAS PAVLICEK (73) by Richard Powers
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a pollen-coated wasp crawled down the hole at the tip of a certain green fig and laid eggs all over the involute garden of flowers hidden inside

—p.81 DOUGLAS PAVLICEK (73) by Richard Powers
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(noun) ; a projecting beam or member supported at only one end / a bracket-shaped member supporting a balcony or a cornice / either of the two beams or trusses that project from piers toward each other and that when joined directly or by a suspended connecting member form a span of a cantilever bridge

101

From high up in this crazy cantilevered oak, looking down on the sidewalk

—p.101 NEELAY MEHTA (91) by Richard Powers
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From high up in this crazy cantilevered oak, looking down on the sidewalk

—p.101 NEELAY MEHTA (91) by Richard Powers
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(noun) a small group of trees, coppice, thicket

115

He drives them to a copse of spared hardwoods in the bottoms of a slow stream.

—p.115 PATRICIA WESTERFORD (112) by Richard Powers
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He drives them to a copse of spared hardwoods in the bottoms of a slow stream.

—p.115 PATRICIA WESTERFORD (112) by Richard Powers
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(adjective) sluggish groggy / (noun combining form) oral or written expression / (noun combining form) doctrine; theory; science

138

A duet ensues: the bright, pert, human come-on, followed by the logy but obliging bird, hidden in the trees.

—p.138 PATRICIA WESTERFORD (112) by Richard Powers
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A duet ensues: the bright, pert, human come-on, followed by the logy but obliging bird, hidden in the trees.

—p.138 PATRICIA WESTERFORD (112) by Richard Powers
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