Another Country — Vocabulary
James Baldwin
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There remained at the bottom of his mind, nevertheless, a numb speculation as to why this question should make him angry.†p.64.6alternate pages13 more

He paid the man and they got out and walked into the lobby, which was large and hideous, with mirrors and chairs.†p.12.2alternate pages17 more

But I don't really feel that—terror—and that anguish and that joy I've sometimes felt with—a few men.†p.336.9alternate pages14 more

And whatever stalked there saw, and spread the news of what it saw throughout the entire kingdom of whomever, though the eye itself might perish.†p.302.2alternate pages6 more

Everything seemed to be swollen, thrusting and shifting and changing, about to burst into music or into flame or revelation.p.143.4alternate pages8 more

Sometimes, unable to reach her and unable to reach the people in his novel, he stalked out and walked the summer streets alone.†p.321.6alternate pages5 more

But it was yet more strange and made for an unprecedented steadiness and freedom, that Eric loved him.†p.387.6alternate pages5 more

It was strangely and insistently double-edged, it was like making love in the midst of mirrors, or it was like death by drowning.†p.385.1alternate pages7 more

She thought, irrelevantly, I never should come to movies, I can't stand them, and then she began to cry.†p.283.3alternate pages3 more

And at such moments Belle watched him, too, sympathy struggling to overcome the relentless vacuity in her face.†p.306.4alternate pages5 more

She said the last with a wry, proud, grown-up exasperation, as one submitting to the penalties imposed by her brother's power, and glory.†p.138.2alternate pages5 more

She held a drink and a cigarette in one hand and looked at once like the rather weary matron she actually was and the mischievous girl she once had been.†p.73.9alternate pages5 more

She could break him: for, to match her will, he would be compelled to descend to stratagems far beneath him.†p.368.3alternate pages5 more

The film was one of those politics, sex, and vengeance dramas the French love to turn out, and it starred one of the great French actors, who had died when this film was completed.†p.328.8alternate pages3 more

He had used her in the hope of avoiding a confrontation with himself which he had, nevertheless, and with a vengeance, been forced to endure.†p.404.9alternate pages3 more

And laughter rang down the street behind this call, the suppressed, bawdy laughter of the Italians—for, after all, Vivaldo was one of them, and a male, and apparently, a gifted one—and the delighted, vindictive laughter of the Negroes.†p.299.7alternate pages3 more

Her sex, which afforded him his entry, would nevertheless remain strange to him, an incitement and an anguish, and an everlasting mystery.†p.385.7alternate pages2 more

The concerto was approaching its end.†p.216.2alternate pages3 more

She looked, covertly, at him again—her guilt began.†p.366.6alternate pages2 more

He had a diffident manner and a nervous giggle.†p.159.7alternate pages2 more