The Grass is Singing — Vocabulary
Doris Lessing
(Auto-generated)

His wife treated him with a cold indifference.†p.30.4alternate pages20 more

From Charlie's point of view, the adaptability redeemed them.†p.11.6alternate pages8 more

Mary could hear them panting softly, or whining with exasperation because of the flies.†p.74.4alternate pages8 more

Yet outside the office and the club her life was entirely dependent upon men, though she would have most indignantly repudiated the accusation.†p.36.1alternate pages7 more

Once she was roused by a noise, and realized it was herself, talking out loud in the living room in a low angry voice.†p.170.3alternate pages8 more

She liked things to happen safely one after another in a pattern, and she liked, particularly, the friendly impersonality of it.†p.32.1alternate pages7 more

But she knew she could not easily ask, and bring that heavy tormented look on his face.†p.69.8alternate pages7 more

And he stormed against the natives themselves, who refused to work properly, who were insolent—and so on.†p.157.4alternate pages6 more

For he clung obstinately to the belief, in spite of Slatter and the Sergeant, that the causes of the murder must be looked for a long way back, and that it was they which were important.†p.24.1alternate pages6 more

And above all, he loathed the cinema.†p.44.8alternate pages5 more

She thought it would be pleasant to live peacefully for a change; she had not realized how exhausted she was, after those years of living geared to a perpetual demand for the next thing.†p.51.6alternate pages4 more

Between the huts were irregular patches of ill-cultivated mealies, and pumpkin vines trailed everywhere through plants and bushes and up over the walls and roofs, with the big amber-colored pumpkins scattered among the leaves.†p.122.2alternate pages4 more

It had been a drug, a soporific, in the past, reading them; now, as she turned them over listlessly, she wondered why they had lost their flavor.†p.65.9alternate pages4 more

She was thinking uneasily of that note of contempt in the man's voice, which contradicted all her previous ideas of Dick.†p.92.4alternate pages2 more

During this time, in spite of the hard work and her hatred of the natives, all her apathy and discontent had been pushed into the background.†p.130.3alternate pages4 more

To hide it, he began talking about the house, with diffidence because of his poverty, never taking his eyes off her face.†p.55.4alternate pages4 more

He was weak, too, with repugnance against this ugly little house which seemed to hold within its walls, even in its very brick and cement, the fears and horror of the murder.†p.23.6alternate pages3 more

His own face was curious: it showed a kind of triumph, a guarded vindictiveness, and fear.†p.9.5alternate pages3 more

Mrs. Slatter would have had to be a most extraordinary woman to remain perfectly impartial and fair to Mary, after having been snubbed so many times.†p.193.1alternate pages2 more

And they parted cordially enough, although Dick could not bring himself to match Charlie's bluff good-humor.†p.88.5alternate pages2 more