All 27 Uses of
displace
in
A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
- The Displaced Person The peacock was following Mrs. Shortley up the road to the hill where she meant to stand.†
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- Then the front door opened and out stepped the man, the Displaced Person.†
Story 10.
- Her look first grazed the tops of the displaced people s heads and then revolved downwards slowly, the way a buzzard glides and drops in the air until it alights on the carcass.†
Story 10.
- The peacock stepped off toward the mulberry tree where the two Negroes were hiding and the priest turned his absorbed face away and got in the car and drove the displaced people down to the shack they were to occupy.†
Story 10.
- They're what is called Displaced Persons.†
Story 10.
- "Displaced Persons," he said.†
Story 10.
- She says it's ten million more like them, Displaced Persons, she says that there priest can get her all she wants.†
Story 10.
- That man there," and she pointed where the Displaced Person had disappeared, "he has to work!†
Story 10.
- With the coming of these displaced people, she was obliged to give new thought to a good many things.†
Story 10.
- And before it was a Displaced Person, it could be a nigger.†
Story 10.
- Mrs. McIntyre had changed since the Displaced Person had been working for her and Mrs. Shortley had observed the change very closely: she had begun to act like somebody who was getting rich secretly and she didn't confide in Mrs. Shortley the way she used to.†
Story 10.
- She knew something the Displaced Person was doing that would floor Mrs. McIntyre.†
Story 10.
- She had found out what the Displaced Person was up to through the old man, Astor, and she had not told anybody but Mr. Shortley.†
Story 10.
- They didn't know that she had had a great experience or ever been displaced in the world from all that belonged to her.†
Story 10.
- Of all the families she had had, the Shortleys were the best if she didn't count the Displaced Person.†
Story 10.
- Through the far end of the stall she could see down the road to where the Displaced Person was standing in the open barn door with the green hose in his hand.†
Story 10.
- She stood slightly reared back with her arms folded under her smock and a satisfied expression on her face as she watched the Displaced Person turn off the hose and disappear inside the barn.†
Story 10.
- By nightfall, the Displaced Person would have worked his way around and around until there would be nothing on either side of the two hills but the stubble, and down in the center, risen like a little island, the graveyard where the Judge lay grinning under his desecrated monument.†
Story 10.
- She had never known a priest until she had gone to see this one on the business of getting her the Displaced Person.†
Story 10.
- She told him she was going to give thirty days' notice to the Displaced Person at the end of the month and that then he could have his job back in the dairy.†
Story 10.
- The Displaced Person had expected them to work as hard as he worked himself, whereas Mr. Shortley recognized their limitations.†
Story 10.
- He had said there was no legal obligation for her to keep the Displaced Person if he was not satisfactory, but then he had brought up the moral one.†
Story 10.
- She felt she must have this out with the priest before she fired the Displaced Person.†
Story 10.
- The old priest kept away as if he had been frightened by his last visit but finally, seeing that the Displaced Person had not been fired, he ventured to call again to take up giving Mrs. McIntyre instructions where he remembered leaving them off.†
Story 10.
- She made up her mind now that on the first of the month, she would give the Displaced Person his thirty days' notice and she told Mr. Shortley so.†
Story 10.
- She didn't sleep at night or when she did she dreamed about the Displaced Person.†
Story 10.
- Later she remembered that she had seen the Negro jump silently out of the way as if a spring in the earth had released him and that she had seen Mr. Shortley turn his head with incredible slowness and stare silently over his shoulder and that she had started to shout to the Displaced Person but that she had not.†
Story 10.
Definition:
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(displace) force to move; or to take the place of