June Recital — Vocabulary
Eudora Welty
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They went on Mondays and Thursdays at 3:30 and 4:00 and after school was out and up until the recital, at 9:30 and 10:00 in the morning.†20 more

Yet in the shade of the vacant house, though all looked still, there was agitation.†3 more

At last he sighed, stretched his toes—so clean he despised the very sight of his feet—and brought himself up on his elbow to the window.†3 more

So punctual and so formidable was Miss Eckhart that all the little girls passed, one going and one coming, through the beaded curtains mincing like strangers.†1 more

Ladies waved and beckoned with their fans, conversation opened up.1 more

It ran perfectly through her head, vanishing as it went, one line yielding to the next, like a torch race.more

You could see torment in her regard of the fly.†1 more

Then there was only the quartet, and with the last chord—sudden disintegration itself—laughter and teasing broke loose.†1 more

The quartet, with four dresses in view at one time and in close conjunction, pushing one another, made Miss Eckhart especially apprehensive.†

When he saw the door prized open—the stretched screen billowing from being too freely leaned against—and let the people in, Loch felt the old indignation rise up.†

When she came in she took her seat and put her foot earnestly up on Mr. Sissum's stool like any other lady in Morgana and he spoke to her very nicely.†

Miss Eckhart tried all those things and was strict to the last in the way she gave all her love to Virgie Rainey and none to anybody else, the way she was strict in music; and for Miss Eckhart love was just as arbitrary and one-sided as music teaching.†

But with Fir Elise the third time, her uncritical self of the crucial present, this Wednesday afternoon, slowly came forward—as if called on.†

Virgie, her face hardening under the progress of her advancing piece, could manage the most oblivious look of all, though Miss Eckhart might strike harder and harder at the persistent flies.†

But he could not tell what it was—a small brown wooden box, shaped like the Obelisk.†6 more

It sounded worse than the infernal regions.†2 more

That was the conceited thing girls and women would try.†1 more

She showed no repentance, such as Cassie felt, for her inconsistencies.†

Before some caprice of Virgie's, her spirit drooped its head.†

Miss Eckhart had made an exception of Virgie Rainey; she had first respected Virgie Rainey, and now fell humble before her impudence.†