FryGuy's O Pioneers! Vocabulary

"His sister was a tall, strong girl, and she walked rapidly and resolutely, as if she knew exactly where she was going and what she was going to do next." (10)

"Carl stopped the horses and looked dubiously up at the black sky." (16)

"The record of the plow was insignificant, like the feeble scratches on stone left by prehistoric races, so indeterminate that they may, after all, be only the markings of glaciers, and not a record of human strivings." (17)

"But this land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces." (18)

"Mrs. Bergson was a fair-skinned, corpulent woman, heavy and placid like her son, Oscar..." (21)

"She made a yellow jam of the insipid ground-cherries that grew on the prairie..." (22)

"She disapproved of all her neighbors because of their slovenly housekeeping..." (22)

"...Oscar brandished his whip over the broad backs of the horses." (24)

"But he was as indolent of mind as he was unsparing of his body." (35)

"'Free-thinkers,' replied the young woman laconically." (47)

"The table was set for company in the dining-room, where highly varnished wood and colored glass and useless pieces of china were conspicuous enough to satisfy the standards of the new prosperity." (56)

"All we have ever managed to do is to pay our rent, the exorbitant rent that one has to pay for a few square feet of space near the heart of things." (69)

"He glanced at Alexandra sullenly, blinked as if he had come from a dark place, and one eyebrow twitched continually. (161-162)