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).

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

Highlighted phrases

stolid



trying to pass as just another stolid example of Upper West Side apartment house

—p.27 by Thomas Pynchon
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3 years, 5 months ago

HORST CAN’T FIND the ice-cream flavor he really needs today and is showing signs of gathering impatience, alarming in one usually so stolid.

—p.131 by Thomas Pynchon
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3 years, 5 months ago

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors


this outstanding reproduction of a hotel, stolid in its blockbound prewar glory, truly the architectural embodiment of everything the city surrounding it has always aspired to

—p.493 by Joshua Cohen
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3 years, 2 months ago


up to 75,000 people took part in the uprising, mostly from the stolid Black working class

Watts

—p.268 The Hammer and the Rock (237) by Mike Davis
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1 year, 6 months ago


who comes to attend you and supply your want, stolidly, pleasantly, or with an independent air

—p.35 Eugénie Grandet (33) by Honoré de Balzac
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2 years, 5 months ago


the chairman's legendary walrus mustache: its tremendous stolidity

—p.16 by Philipp Schonthaler
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3 years, 8 months ago


why they had allowed him to accept failure so stolidly at an age when most men are still struggling

—p.79 The Age of Innocence (1) by Edith Wharton
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6 months ago


the stolid enablers who shelter rapists and provide cover to sexual abusers

—p.134 Tripped Up (116) missing author
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4 years ago


As the stolid rugby players do not, these victims seem to be looking at us

—p.22 W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (16) by James Wood
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6 years, 3 months ago


his more stolid brother

—p.24 Why? (1) by James Wood
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6 years, 2 months ago


Mr. Inononu stood a stolid five feet and four inches from the ground

—p.648 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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1 year ago


Literature, which had set itself up in order to bring theory to the unwashed undergraduates, in contradistinction to the English department, which was standing stolidly for reading the texts

cute. Caleb Crain

—p.62 Panel 2 (59) missing author
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4 years, 10 months ago