Love Medicine — Vocabulary
Louise Erdrich
1984 Version
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She fought Old Lady Blue at the mission bundle sales to acquire a Stetson practically new except for a burnt hole through the crown.†p.304.2alternate pages6 more

In a dazed, immediate, unhappy bewilderment he sat on the doily-bedecked couch opening and closing his hands in his lap.†p.115.6alternate pages3 more

Now she wore moccasins, let her braids grow long, traveled into town on foot, scorned the nuns as they scorned her, visited the priest.†p.98.9alternate pages

Lynette leaned back to me with a bleary confiding look.†p.298.1alternate pages1 more

Her legs felt springy and lean, her body taut like a girl's.†p.219.6alternate pages2 more

Right now, she eyed the Lamartine's pert flowery dress with such a look it despaired me.†p.234.1alternate pages1 more

It was miles and miles before he roused himself to ask if I would take the next right-hand turn I came to and drive until I hit Canada.†p.329.1alternate pages3 more

He put his hand out and shook manfully like his older brothers, which pleased Bev, although he had trouble containing a moment of confusion at the utter indifference in the boy's eyes.†p.109.4alternate pages1 more

Yet even in his mounting exasperation, he did not lose control and stoop to discussing what had happened after Henry's wake, when they both went outside to get some air.†p.112.4alternate pages1 more

The strip had diminished under the town's urban-renewal project: asphalt plains and swooping concrete interchanges shouldered the remaining bars into an intricate huddle, lit for action at this hour.†p.166.1alternate pages1 more

A horned man radiating wavering lines of power was beaded onto the other end.†p.255.7alternate pages1 more

Grandpa was the one who stripped off my delusions in this matter, for it was he who busted right through what Father calls the sacred serenity of the place.†p.231.4alternate pages1 more

And then, even though I was the one on the bottom, she beat my britches with uncommon vigor.†p.308.9alternate pages2 more

I told him how she'd even testified for Chippewa claims and that people were starting to talk, now, about her knowledge as an old-time traditional.†p.329.7alternate pages2 more

King was slumped morosely in the front seat of the car, a beer clenched between his thighs.†p.26.2alternate pages1 more

Her salary only fluctuated by pennies from firm to firm, but her importance and value as a knower-of-ropes swelled.†p.107.6alternate pages

She always used the royal we, to multiply the censure of what she said by invisible others.†p.7.9alternate pages

Monetary settlement.†p.281.1alternate pages

I found there was discrepancies between then and now.†p.232.2alternate pages

Still in her belly and tensed in its fluids coiled the child of their union, the child we were waiting for, the child whose name we were making a strenuous and lengthy search for in a cramped and littered bar at the very edge of that Dakota town.†p.190.5alternate pages