The Turn of the Screw — Vocabulary
Henry James
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It literally made me bound forward.15 more

I seemed literally to be running a race with some confusion to which he was about to reduce me, but I felt that he had got in first when, before we had even entered the churchyard, he threw out— "I want my own sort!"15 more

I perceived an agitation of the window blind,10 more

NEVER, by a slip of the tongue, have they so much as alluded to either of their old friends,8 more

...she had passed a night of extreme unrest, a night agitated above all by fears that...8 more

I scarce know how to put my story into words...8 more

It was neither more nor less than the circumstance that for a period of several months Quint and the boy had been perpetually together.†6 more

It took little time to see that I could sound without forms of inquiry and without exciting remark any domestic complications.†6 more

For there again, against the glass, as if to blight his confession and stay his answer, was the hideous author of our woe—the white face of damnation.†9 more

There came to me thus a bewilderment of vision of which, after these years, there is no living view that I can hope to give.†7 more

The place, moreover, in the strangest way in the world, had, on the instant, and by the very fact of its appearance, become a solitude.†5 more

At the image of this possibility Mrs. Grose for a moment collapsed, yet presently to pull herself together again, as if from the positive force of the sense of what, should we yield an inch, there would really be to give way to.†4 more

I had had brothers myself, and it was no revelation to me that little girls could be slavish idolaters of little boys.6 more

Nonetheless, the rest of the day I watched for further occasion to approach my colleague, especially as, toward evening, I began to fancy she rather sought to avoid me.†5 more

They were all listening now, and of course there was somebody to be arch, or at any rate to draw the inference.†3 more

"While you," I concurred, "caught your death in the night air!"†3 more

The others resented postponement, but it was just his scruples that charmed me.†3 more

They were like the cherubs of the anecdote, who had—morally, at any rate—nothing to whack!†1 more

It was not, I am as sure today as I was sure then, my mere infernal imagination: it was absolutely traceable that they were aware of my predicament and that this strange relation made, in a manner, for a long time, the air in which we moved.†3 more

She passed that night, by the most tacit, and I should add, were not the word so grotesque a false note, the happiest of arrangements, with Mrs. Grose.†2 more