Unit 1: Vocabulary from Readings 2

Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadows, forty thousand men, exhausted by nervous expectation, unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily askew in their uniforms.

A mile yet farther on, another army was strewn helter-skelter, turning slow, basting themselves with the thought of what they would do when the time came: a leap, a yell, a blind plunge their strategy, raw youth their protection and benediction.

For with the careless bones of the young men harvested by night and bindled around campfires were the similarly strewn steel bones of their rifles, with bayonets fixed like eternal lightning lost in the orchard grass.

“Run off from home or joined legitimately, boy?”

Move the blood up the body and make the head proud and the spine stiff and the jaw resolute.

There was a time when her desire to return to China was a sensation in her belly, like hunger.

Hang Fong thinks maybe Manager Lady left her window open. But then the sound becomes erratic and sharp.

Manager Lady opened her mouth wide, as her hand fluttered toward the window.

You Thin told everyone on the Square that the pot belonged to a hard-working old-timer who died alone. Hang Fong said that it was a good omen that they were chosen to house this valuable object.

Hang Fong watches it. She hears the big engines of the garbage trucks churning up the hill.