Washington Black — Vocabulary
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As the days passed, however, I began to understand that he would not make blistering use of his fists, as the master would.†p.72.7alternate pages10 more

However did you manage it?†p.379.4alternate pages10 more

We began to go almost daily into the city together, to inspect new specimens or pieces of equipment.†p.323.3alternate pages25 more

He sat up, rubbing at his cheeks, and for a moment I glimpsed in him the anguish of the earlier evening.†p.132.1alternate pages19 more

"Ferrous," he murmured, and then peered up at me with an unfathomable look.†p.33.8alternate pages8 more

He was a wretched man, a pox, but I did not rejoice at the brutality of his end, however well deserved.†p.337.3alternate pages8 more

What a grotesque creature peered back at me.†p.79.9alternate pages7 more

It was clear to me that both were intelligent, kind people, but careless with each other's feelings, and poles apart in temperament.†p.240.9alternate pages6 more

And he has discovered much, it's true, but the one thing that has defied all his powers of inquiry is my mother's heart.†p.65.6alternate pages4 more

Goff gave a flustered grunt, shoving some boiled potatoes into his mouth, but I could see he was interested.†p.256.9alternate pages6 more

The older slave had suffered some horrific brutality upon her person; the bulb of her right shoulder had been crudely severed off, so that she seemed always to be shrugging.†p.85.6alternate pages6 more

A little melancholy, it must be said—well, very melancholy—but on the whole a rather sporting fellow.†p.64.5alternate pages4 more

It was a portrait of the boy, his eyes clear and dark-lashed, his right cheek distorted by poor fixatives.†p.369.8alternate pages3 more

When he had vanished entirely, all I could discern was a low orange glow rising from the earth Where he had gone.†p.163.5alternate pages4 more

The manservant had got the name wrong: it was the Abolitionist Society for the Betterment and Integration of Former Slaves.†p.310.1alternate pages5 more

And though we were in no mood for it, still we found ourselves dining, impossibly, that evening at Regent's Park.†p.327.1alternate pages3 more

Titch shoved his way between us, his necktie askew, his hat in his hand as he gestured angrily down at me.†p.147.1alternate pages2 more

And there I saw the eerie, otherworldly orb of the inflated Cloud-cutter, the long cables holding it fast, the great monstrosity of it hovering there.†p.83.1alternate pages2 more

White men were everywhere aggrieved, and they would sometimes rise up against us black devils, the miserable black scourge who would destroy their livelihood by labouring at cheaper rates.†p.210.5alternate pages2 more

We sat in a filthy establishment, drinking the dreck someone had likely brought in from an illicit distillery.†p.216.1alternate pages2 more