Winesburg, Ohio — Vocabulary
Sherwood Anderson
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Some were amusing, some almost beautiful, and one, a woman all drawn out of shape, hurt the old man by her grotesqueness.†26 more

Without looking back, the old man had hurried down the hillside and across a meadow, leaving George Willard perplexed and frightened upon the grassy slope.†6 more

It was the indefinable hunger within that made his eyes waver and that kept him always more and more silent before people.†5 more

As his hard knuckles beat down into the frightened face of the school-master, his wrath became more and more terrible.†6 more

This indifference would not have surprised him; it certainly should not surprise anyone who reads his book.†4 more

In the woods an intense silence seemed to lie over everything and suddenly out of the silence came the old man's harsh and insistent voice.†6 more

Hesitantly, fearfully, or with a sputtering incoherent rage, they approach him, pleading that he listen to their stories in the hope that perhaps they can find some sort of renewal in his youthful voice.†3 more

He always wore a dirty white waistcoat out of the pockets of which protruded a number of the kind of black cigars known as stogies.†4 more

In the path at the side of the road they were compelled to walk one behind the other.†3 more

By the window sat the sick woman, perfectly still, listless.†2 more

In the city where he is living men are perpetually young.†1 more

He began to think of the people in the town where he had always lived with something like reverence.†1 more

Strange, hideous accusations fell from his loosehung lips.†3 more

When after two years of that life I found she had managed to acquire three other lovers who came regularly to our house when I was away at work, I didn't want to touch them or her.†1 more

A kind of crude and animal-like poetic fervor took possession of them.†5 more

Anderson soon adopted the posture of a free, liberated spirit, and like many writers of the time, he presented himself as a sardonic critic of American provincialism and materialism.†1 more

The reproofs she committed to memory, going about the garden and saying them aloud like an actor memorizing his part.†2 more

The minister almost wept with joy at this deliverance from the carnal desire to "peep" and went back to his own house praising God.†2 more

When his way homeward led him again into the street of frame houses he could not bear the sight and began to run, wanting to get quickly out of the neighborhood that now seemed to him utterly squalid and commonplace.†1 more

Hours passed and a fever assailed his body.†1 more