The Adventures of Augie March — Vocabulary
Saul Bellow
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Mama wasn't any longer right off the kitchen but established in almost an apartment with a Gulistan on the floor and drapes on the window.13 more

Here what had to be established was whether I was qualified in pocket to mix with the sons of established fathers.13 more

It's as follows: In the world of today your individual man has to be willing to illustrate a more and more narrow and restricted point of existence.7 more

Simon was a blond boy with big cheekbones and wide gray eyes and had the arms of a cricketer--I go by the illustrations; we never played anything but softball.7 more

To accept any help from Kayo she must, I thought, be in bad condition; and so she was, though talkative and of false alertness and sharpness—false because it didn't correspond to the expression of her eyes.†7 more

And the Old Man—he did correspondence courses in philosophy at a bunch of universities, it was his hobby, and was forever writing out assignments—he took to me too, though he didn't approve of my leniency.†7 more

But he was all the same a little dubious and haunted, his black eyes in the long joke-austerity of his head often very melancholy.†17 more

And he was very shrewd, his sister said.†15 more

And, moreover, though I was still in love with her, my attitude toward her wasn't what it had been.†9 more

Nevertheless he kept thinking how, in spite of the time, he could carry it off, and didn't merely brood, but discussed, obstinately, how it could be done.†13 more

Later, when I wised up and was debeatified, I was more sensual.†9 more

The spirit I found him in was the Chanticleer spirit, by which I refer to male piercingness, sharpness, knotted hard muscle and blood in the comb, jerky, flaunty, haughty and bright, with luxurious slither of feathers.†6 more

To develop from crippled girl into crippled woman, in the family, in the house, such staleness and hardship—that's what it makes for, darkness, saturninity, oversat grievance.†7 more

With the holder in her dark little gums between which all her guile, malice, and command issued, she had her best inspirations of strategy.†5 more

I took closer interest in his swindles than when I had been not much more than house-boy and the Einhorn business was too vast for me to understand.†11 more

I knew later I had been lucky with her, that she had tried not to be dry with me, or satirical, and done it mercifully.†6 more

I see I met those writers in the big book of utopias at a peculiar time.†3 more

I never repudiated her that much or tried to strike the old influence, such as it had become, out of her hands.†3 more

The only way I could conceive, in my blood-loaded, picturesque amorousness.†4 more

Grandma had arranged this with Sylvester's father, whom she knew from the old people's arbor in the park.4 more