Lonesome Dove

1 use

Often she was tempted just to walk into a saloon where there was a girl or two she could might have talked to, but instead she had given way to apathy, spending whole days sitting on the edge of her sleeping loft, doing nothing.

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He had brought along a sack of chilies, and he dumped them liberally into his beans, feeling free to augment the dish with pieces of whatever varmints strayed into his path—rattlesnakes mostly, with an occasional armadillo.

1 use

the Indians were not belligerent and it was apparent that Gus had merely struck the wrong bunch at the wrong time, in the wrong manner.

3 uses

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He carried the bodies up to the prairie, laid them in their shallow graves and helped July pile rocks on the graves, a pitiful expedient that wouldn't deter the varmints for long.

3 uses

Xavier himself had a near-monopoly on fastidiousness in Lonesome Dove.

2 uses

What he was doing—indeed, his whole life—now seemed to him completely futile.

8 uses

He had seen many men die of wounds, and had watched the turning of their spirits from active desire to live to indifference.

14 uses

The fact that the bartender had been a little slow and insolent hadn't necessarily been a reason to break his nose.

2 meanings, 3 uses

1 use

"Because people are slow learners, like your sister," Clara said, grinning at Betsey to mitigate the criticism.

2 uses

The deputy had nine children, and his death caused an uproar against whores and gamblers, so much so that Jake thought it prudent to leave town.

66 uses

Frog Lip reined in his horse and watched as both cows fell through the roof of the sod house.

2 meanings, 2 uses

3 uses

Jasper had never been reticent, but now it seemed he had to be talking every waking minute as a means of holding his own fears in balance.

2 uses

July took it as a criticism of his work, which he felt he had done scrupulously.

1 use

He scrutinized the address on the letter and then looked at July.

15 uses