Year of Wonders — Vocabulary
Geraldine Brooks
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I had been at my father's croft when Anys had come with a salve for the sticky-eye, which all the young ones were catching at the time.†14 more

Perhaps wrath could rouse him where charity had not.†11 more

I had no idea what it was that Mr. Mompellionwas trying to convey to the old man.†6 more

The nettle beer, however, was new to me.†2 more

However little you know, it's more than I do, who never has labored myself nor even birthed any livestock.2 more

I feared that this agitation would kill him in his weakened state, and so I picked up the ruined bedding and left him.†6 more

Mr. Mompellion, too, was there, directing Mr. Milne, and when he deemed the holes sufficiently deep he filled each with vinegar and placed the coins inside.†9 more

And surely the poor man looked mortified the next day, afraid that he had irrevocably offended me.†8 more

Those who must move through the poorer parishes cover their faces in herb-stuffed masks contrived like the beaks of great birds.†8 more

Where Mr. Viccars's sore had erupted near his neck, Jamie's rose in his armpit, and he cried piteously from the agony of it, holding his slender little arm far out to his side so as not to hurt himself by the pressure of his own flesh.†7 more

But he was smiling his big open smile, and he looked down deferentially when he grasped my mortified state.†4 more

For all of you who love your children know that affliction, too, can be a means of evidencing your care for them.†6 more

It was this habit, I suppose, that led me into the account I made her then, a bawdy confession of my own lust, which I had the right to confide to her, and then that which I did not: the news I'd just learned of Anys's sport with my lodger.†4 more

For if one speaks 'religiously,' then one must recall that God has the power to keep you safe in peril, or to bring peril to overtake you, no matter how far or fast you run.†5 more

Since then, he had never let pass an opportunity to disparage her connections or slight her understanding.†2 more

Here, we poor souls of this village may emulate Our Blessed Lord.†2 more

Anyone who had placed a deposit on work from Mr. Viccars would want whatever of that work he had accomplished, and notwithstanding Mr. Mompellion's injunction, I had no right to withhold it from them.†1 more

You know that many backs broke to wrest that soil from clutching root and stubborn stump; you know that hands bled, dragging forth the rocks that sit arrayed now as the fencesthat mark out worked land from wilderness.†2 more

Colonel Bradford turned to him with a raised eyebrow, as if to censure rudeness.†1 more

So how could he have been touched by the city's pestilence?†3 more