The American — Vocabulary
Henry James
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Bellegarde had been looking at him with quickened expectancy, and with the smile with which he had greeted Newman's allusion to his promised request.†11 more

He established himself in some rooms selected for him by Tom Tristram, in accordance with the latter's estimate of what he called his social position.5 more

Even say we firmly established by medical evidence the presumption of a mind disordered by fever, ...5 more

Moreover, many of the common traditions with regard to women were with him fresh personal impressions; he had never read a novel!†10 more

And the old man turned afresh, with a staring, wondering homage, to the audacious daub on the easel.†13 more

He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass.†15 more

He wore the same decently melancholy aspect as a few months before; a few months more or less of brushing could make little difference in the antique lustre of his coat and hat.†11 more

Inevitably, he had a vast deal to say about women, and he used frequently to indulge in sentimental and ironical apostrophes to these authors of his joys and woes.†9 more

The Count Valentin looked at our hero from head to foot with his peculiar smile, in which impudence and urbanity seemed perplexingly commingled.†10 more

I am not cultivated, I am not even educated; I know nothing about history, or art, or foreign tongues, or any other learned matters.†9 more

It is not supposable that he intended a satire upon Babcock's own asceticism, for this would have been a truly cynical stroke.†10 more

Damn his French impudence!†11 more

He left his vehicle at the tavern in the village street, and obeyed the simple instructions which were given him for finding the chateau.†13 more

Newman strolled lightly beside her; his head was thrown back and he was gazing at all the stars; he seemed to himself to be riding his vengeance along the Milky Way.†3 more

You are a man of the world with a vengeance!†3 more

Newman listened to him with his impartial smile, and was glad, for his own sake, that he had fine feelings; but he mentally repudiated the idea of a Frenchman having discovered any merit in the amiable sex which he himself did not suspect.†5 more

You have been odiously successful.†5 more

She saw M. de Cintre for the first time a month before the wedding, after everything, to the minutest detail, had been arranged.2 more

Every day, then, for the following three weeks, the minutely respectable figure of M. Nioche made its appearance, with a series of little inquiring and apologetic obeisances, among the aromatic fumes of Newman's morning beverage.2 more

The brevity of Newman's judgments very often shocked and discomposed him.†3 more