Brian's Winter — Vocabulary
Gary Paulsen
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He knew some things migrated but he wasn't sure which things or if even rabbits came out—maybe they stayed inside brushpiles or caves all winter and slept.†p.24.4alternate pages1 more

He had one fleeting image of a wall of brown hair with the feathers of the arrow sticking out of the middle and he went down.†p.78.9alternate pages1 more

Inside of four days a routine was established.†p.55.6alternate pages

Back in the hood the air was kept from moving and his face grew warmer and the fact that his head was warm seemed to warm his whole body and once he became accustomed to the cold he could look around and appreciate the world around him.†p.99.6alternate pages1 more

He had stretched the wolfkilled doe as far as he could, trying to ration it and eat smaller amounts, but he'd have to hunt within four or five days.†p.67.9alternate pages1 more

The hide was still wet from being on the moose, hadn't had time to dry, but the fire and heat in the shelter worked fast and within a few days it had dried sufficiently to work.†p.88.4alternate pages

He now took twenty steps and saw seven, all at varying ranges, none close enough to shoot, all standing out like sore thumbs because they were brown against the white snow.†p.74.2alternate pages

And there was a physics to it, a basic fact, almost a law: For a wolf to live, something else had to die.†p.10.5alternate pages1 more

He thought it must be a good distance—the sounds were faint—and he would probably find some plausible reason for the sound.†p.125.2alternate pages

But in reality, the bear was not his primary adversary.†p.21.5alternate pages

He set the shaft aside and went back to the fire rock—he was already thinking of it as the arrow stone—and scrutinized it once more.†p.41.1alternate pages

Brian couldn't estimate temperature but he thought it must be near zero, but quiet—the wind had stopped completely—and his clothes kept him as warm as if he'd been in the shelter.†p.89.9alternate pages

If he used the same principle as with the arrows ….p.62.4alternate pages

He had stopped to study them and he had thought then that it was a beautiful collection of intricately carved points, all laid out on red velvet, and he did not then or later think of what they really were: tools for hunting.†p.27.3alternate pages

It was unusual for him to go there without getting several good shots and though he still often missed he had worked out a ratio of five to one: He seemed to get one rabbit for about every five shots on rabbits.†p.29.3alternate pages1 more

He had the hide loose where it counted, in the armpits and elbows and the hood, but much of the rest of it was only half supple, stiff enough so that he felt as if he were wearing a coat of armor and still stiff though he worked on it for hours when at last the storm ended.p.89.5alternate pages1 more

A kind of lethargy came over him and he just wanted to sit in the sun and try to forget the last week.†p.35.5alternate pages

The Smallhorn family were scrupulously polite and because they had lived in the bush and didn't have television, they knew nothing of Brian's disaster.†p.131.7alternate pages

Epilogue†p.131.1alternate pages

Wonderful—I've got a roommate with a terminal hygiene problem ...†p.55.6alternate pages