Leader of the People — Vocabulary
John Steinbeck
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He paddled for a while and then paused to kick bursts of dirt out between his hind legs, and he dug with an earnestness which belied the knowledge he must have had that no dog had ever caught a squirrel by digging in a hole.†

He had been shaving in mid-week, for Billy held Grandfather in reverence, and Grandfather said that Billy was one of the few men of the new generation who had not gone soft.†

Jody lay in his bed and thought of the impossible world of Indians and buffaloes, a world that had ceased to be forever.†

Billy shook hands solemnly, grinning under his straw mustache.†

Grandfather's tone dropped into its narrative groove again.†

They had been immune from cats, from traps, from poison and from Jody.†

Those plump, sleek, arrogant mice were doomed.†

He could see the white town of Salinas far out in the flat and the flash of its windows under the waning sun.†

It was a terrible thing to him to retract a word, but to retract it in shame was infinitely worse.†

The dogs coaxed and whined about him, but he could not go.†

The stern blue eyes were detached.†

The puff-ball clouds, dropped by the falling wind, hung listlessly in the sky.†

Her lips pursed judiciously.†

Jody peered cautiously at her to see whether any rancor toward him remained.†

The little boy, Jody, emerged from the house eating a thick piece of buttered bread.†