Winesburg, Ohio: Paper Pills

by Sherwood Anderson
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The Book of the Grotesque, Hands, Paper Pills, Mother, The Philosopher, Nobody Knows, Godliness, A Man of Ideas, Adventure, Respectability, The Thinker, Tandy, The Strength of God, The Teacher, Loneliness, An Awakening, "Queer," The Untold Lie, Drink, Death, Sophistication, Departure
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  1. jaded
    exhausted
    Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg.
  2. fertile
    marked by great fruitfulness
    She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died.
  3. ceaseless
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed.
  4. frayed
    worn away or tattered along the edges
    It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows.
  5. confound
    be confusing or perplexing to
    "That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist," he cried, shaking with laughter.
  6. blather
    talk foolishly
    "That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist," he cried, shaking with laughter.
  7. gnarled
    old and twisted and covered in lines
    On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected.
  8. buggy
    a small lightweight carriage
    The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded white horse and went slowly along country roads.
  9. suitor
    a man who courts a woman
    The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of land that had come down to her had set a train of suitors on her heels.
  10. practitioner
    someone who carries out a learned profession
    Like all old-fashioned country practitioners, Doctor Reefy pulled teeth, and the woman who waited held a handkerchief to her teeth and groaned.
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