All 50 Uses of
forte
in
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- Part I — FORTE'S CHILDREN†
p. 7.3
- Named him Forte.†
p. 76.3
- Claude talked about how strong Forte was, how quick, how the only bad thing about him was how he liked to fight, and how his grandfather made Forte his father's responsibility, because, Claude said, "that dog was so much like Gar."†
p. 76.5
- Claude talked about how strong Forte was, how quick, how the only bad thing about him was how he liked to fight, and how his grandfather made Forte his father's responsibility, because, Claude said, "that dog was so much like Gar."†
p. 76.6
- They'd go into Park Falls and your father would let Forte fight somebody else's dog and of course Forte would win, and as often as not the other guy'd pick an argument, and there they'd be, man and dog fighting side by side.†
p. 76.8
- They'd go into Park Falls and your father would let Forte fight somebody else's dog and of course Forte would win, and as often as not the other guy'd pick an argument, and there they'd be, man and dog fighting side by side.†
p. 76.8
- One night he grabs me and Forte and we drive to The Hollow.†
p. 77.1
- He downs a fair number of beers and pretty soon some guy says he's heard of Forte and next thing I know, we're bouncing along a back road in the dust of this guy's truck.†
p. 77.2
- Your father pushes open the passenger-side door, but Forte's seen this monster and thinks he's got no chance, so all of a sudden he's sitting in your father's lap.†
p. 77.4
- He throws Forte out of the truck.†
p. 77.8
- Well, your dad finally gives up on Forte and falls out of the driver's-side door, which would have been funny in any other situation, but right then I'm screaming for help.†
p. 77.9
- Your father goes to the truck and pulls Forte out.†
p. 78.3
- You have to understand how angry he was at Forte for cowering in there.†
p. 78.4
- But instead of punching the guy and pitching his gun into the weeds, he calls Forte out and shoots him himself.†
p. 78.5
- I put Forte in the back of the truck and drove us out of there.†
p. 78.6
- Then I told your grandfather that Forte ran away, because your father was too sick from the drinking to come downstairs, much less explain what happened.†
p. 78.6
- As if the original Forte had come back.†
p. 85.8
- Downwind of them, Forte crouched, stock still, and Claude, in turn, stood downwind of Forte near the wind-lashed tree line.†
p. 86.4
- Downwind of them, Forte crouched, stock still, and Claude, in turn, stood downwind of Forte near the wind-lashed tree line.†
p. 86.4
- As soon as they moved, Forte trotted forward, hips low, but instead of charging the deer, he slunk into the woods and disappeared.†
p. 86.5
- Thirty yards farther, just inside the forest's edge, stood Forte.†
p. 86.8
- This time Claude turned and grasped the front of his shirt and Edgar found himself sprawling backward into the dry leaves and undergrowth, fighting for balance and then hoping he might make enough racket to get Forte's attention.†
p. 87.2
- This time Forte couldn't mistake the sounds behind him for wind.†
p. 88.0
- Claude walked over to meet them Forte had finally downed a deer, he said.†
p. 89.1
- He expected Claude to return to the old argument, insist they bait Forte and shoot him, or poison him.†
p. 89.3
- Instead, he suggested they forget Forte.†
p. 89.4
- All his talk of scaring off Forte had just been making the terms of the deal clear.†
p. 89.7
- Claude never again suggested they try to find or kill Forte and Edgar never told his father the truth about the deer.†
p. 89.9
- It was empty by morning, though whether licked clean by Forte or plundered by the squirrels he couldn't tell.†
p. 89.9
- One evening, as Edgar was crossing the lawn, in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light, he saw Forte watching from the far side of the garden and he stopped, hoping the dog would finally trot into the yard.†
p. 90.1
- There, Forte ate the kibble from Edgar's hand, trembling.†
p. 90.5
- Always, before Edgar had finished, Forte would begin to pant and then he would turn and walk away and bed down at the forest's edge, where the lights of the house glittered in his eyes.†
p. 90.8
- Forte, he thought.†
p. 99.8
- Looking as well for signs of Forte, who hadn't appeared since late September.†
p. 112.4
- It occurred to him that the dogs might have seen Forte, and that idea cheered him.†
p. 230.7
- Or that he would hear Forte's howl.†
p. 230.8
- On the back, in his father's draftsman-like handwriting, a caption read: Claude and Forte, July 1948.†
p. 275.6 *
- AFTERWARD, HE HERDED HIS LITTER into the workshop and up the narrow steps, stopping only to retrieve the photograph of Claude and Forte from its hiding place, tucked into the envelope with the Hachiko letter.†
p. 281.2
- While the dogs lounged in the loose straw, Edgar took out the photograph of Claude and Forte.†
p. 282.1
- When he was too tired to run the dogs, he sat and peered at the photograph of Claude and Forte.†
p. 284.8
- Edgar slipped the picture of Claude and Forte into his back pocket and pedaled away to the north, retracing the route he and Claude had traveled along that thin gravel line cut through the Chequamegon Forest.†
p. 301.2
- From his back pocket he drew out the photograph of Claude and Forte and set it on the scored wood between them.†
p. 305.8
- Then, before he quite understood what was happening, Ida's other hand had pressed the photograph of Claude and Forte against his free palm and she'd somehow curled his fingers closed and locked that hand shut as well.†
p. 306.1
- But Claude and Forte were still unmistakably the subjects.†
p. 308.5
- Forte stepped out of the shadows.†
p. 455.2
- Essay rumbled a warning in her throat and Forte retreated into the dark.†
p. 455.5
- Forte appeared again late that evening and this time Essay trotted forward to meet him and scented his flanks while he stood rigidly waiting.†
p. 455.8
- When Forte left, much later, the pile of fish Edgar had set aside was gone.†
p. 455.9
- He knew for certain that Forte was following as he'd hoped only on the second night.†
p. 456.4
- Perhaps every bear in the region knew where they were by now, but so would Forte, and he was right about that.†
p. 456.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(forte as in: it is her forte) strengths (strong abilities)
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(2)
(forte as in: forte mezzo) an instruction in music: to be played relatively loudly
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)