Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It will be the first time in my life I ever
(to pay) money for copy I had already promised beforehand I won’t print
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They are sent to prevent men making the world worth while. It is a trick in Nature. Ugh! They are creeping, crawling, squirming things, they with their soft hands and blue eyes. The sight of a woman sickens me. Why I don’t kill every woman I see I don’t know.”
Wash Williams talked in low even tones that made his words seem the more _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The editor turned his car clumsily, grinding the gears, sawing and filing until it was back in the road facing town again. Then he sat for a .., his foot on the clutch.
‘Do you know what she asked me this morning, back there at the station?’ he said
Choose the right preposition: . In his youth Wash Williams had been called the best telegraph operator in the state, and in spite of his degradement ___________ the obscure office at Winesburg, he was still proud of his ability.
Wash Williams did not associate with the men of the town in which he lived. ‘I’ll have nothing to do with them,” he said, looking with bleary eyes at the men who walked along the station platform past the telegraph office
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: ‘Why, Til, you naughty girl! Ain’t you (to get) to be awful, Miss Slyboots! First thing I know you’ll be stealing some of my fellows. I must keep an eye on you, my lady.’
Another thing dawned upon Tildy’s recovering wits. In a moment she had advanced from a hopeless, lowly admirer to be an Eve-sister of the potent Aileen
Choose the right preposition: Wash Williams and George Willard arose from the pile of railroad ties and walked along the tracks towards town. The operator finished his tale quickly, breathlessly.
“Her mother sent for me,” he said. “She wrote me a letter and asked me to come to their house ___________ Dayton. When I got there it was evening about this time
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But deep below our freckles and hay-colored hair the unhandsomest of us dream of a prince or a princess, not vicarious, but coming to us alone.
There was a morning when Aileen tripped in to work with a slightly bruised eye; and Tildy’s solicitude (to be) almost enough to heal any optic
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After the war William Faulkner attended the university of Mississippi for a time
B) William Faulkner for several years did odd jobs of many kinds
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After the war William Faulkner attended the university of Mississippi for a time
B) William Faulkner was in fact never born
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After working in a pet store, O. Henry went to Vegas
B) William Faulkner ‘s books include Requiem for a Nun (1951), published in Penguins
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Gans Christian Anderson encouraged William Faulkner.
B) It was in 1999, the year of his marriage, that William Faulkner took a job as a coal-heaver on night-work at the local power station
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry was adopted from a French pharmacist mentioned in the US Dispensary
B) Porter started to write short stories under the pseudonym of O. Henry
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry’s collections of stories don’t include Options (1909), Roads of Destiny (1909) and others
B) William Faulkner ‘s books include Go Down, Moses (1942), Intruder in the Dust (1948) and so on
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) His schooling was advanced
B) After working in a pet store, O. Henry went to Vegas
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In 1196 O. Henry was indicted
B) O. Henry fled to Honduras
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It was in 1929, the year of his marriage, that William Faulkner took a job as a coal-heaver on night-work at the local power station
B) O. Henry was a journalist
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It was in 1929, the year of his marriage, that William Faulkner took a job as a coal-heaver on night-work at the local power station
B) It was in 1999, the year of his marriage, that William Faulkner took a job as a coal-heaver on night-work at the local power station
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Not long before his death in July 1992 William Faulkner moved his home to Charlottesville, Abhazia
B) O. Henry returned from Honduras three years after fleeing to be with his dying wife
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry (1862–1910) was born William Melbourn Porter
B) O. Henry was indicted for alleged embezzlement
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry (1862–1910) was born William Melburn Porter
B) O. Henry (1962–2010) was born in North Osetia
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry (1862–1910) was born William Sydney Porter
B) O. Henry (1862–1910) was born in North Carolina
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry (1962–2010) was born in North Osetia
B) In 1896 O. Henry was indicted
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry became a doctor for a time
B) William Faulkner intended Sanctuary to be sensational enough to attract sales, which had not been good on his earlier books
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry fled to Honduras
B) William Faulkner for several years did yoga
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry founded a comic weekly show
B) O. Henry founded a rock music magazine The Rolling Stone
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry founded a comic weekly show
B) William Faulkner had made little impression at school
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry founded a rock music magazine The Rolling Stone
B) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather was Colonel William Faulkner
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry Memorial Awards were established to be given annually for the best magazine stories
B) Some collections of stories by O. Henry were published after Porter’s death of a wasting disease in 1910
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry Memorial Awards were established to be given annually for the best music videos
B) O. Henry founded a weekly magazine The Rolling Stone
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry Memorial Awards were established to be given annually for the best music videos
B) Some collections of stories by O. Henry were published after Porter’s death in 2009
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry returned from Honduras three years after fleing to be with his dying wife
B) William Faulkner was born prematurely and died a once
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry spent three years in the federal penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio
B) Gans Christian Anderson encouraged William Faulkner
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry was a bank talker
B) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather had been one of the wild characters of the South
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry was a terrorist
B) William Faulkner ‘s books include Light in August (1932), The Wild Palms (1939) and so on
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry was arrested
B) William Faulkner ‘s books include Get Down Tonight, Moses (1942), Intruder in the Dust (1948) and so on
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry was executed for alleged embezzlement
B) O. Henry’s collections of stories don’t include The Four Million (1906), Heart of the West (1907) and so on
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry was executed for alleged embezzlement
B) O. Henry’s collections of stories include The Four Million (1906), Heart of the West (1907) and so on
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry went to Russia in 1882
B) O. Henry became a doctor for a time
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry went to Russia in 1882
B) William Faulkner was born in 1897
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry went to Texas in 1882; O. Henry became a rancher for a time.
B) O. Henry was a bank teller
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry worked for Komsomolka
B) O. Henry founded a comic weekly magazine
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry worked for Komsomolka
B) O. Henry was employed by Komsomolka to write a humorous daily column about Luzhkov
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry wrote a horror column
B) In 1196 O. Henry was indicted
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry's schooling was advanced
B) O. Henry wrote a humorous column
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories don’t include Options (1909), Roads of Destiny (1909) and others
B)O. Henry was a terrorist
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories don’t include The Four Million (1906), Heart of the West (1907) and so on
B) O. Henry worked for the Houston Post
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories don’t include The Gentle Grafter (1908), The Voice of the City (1908) and so on
B) William Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldier’s Play in 1926
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories don’t include The Gentle Grafter (1908), The Voice of the City (1908) and so on
B) William Faulkner was born near Oxford, Mississippi
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories don’t include Whirligigs (1910) and Strictly Business (1910) and others
B) O. Henry was a bank talker
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories include The Gentle Grafter (1908), The Voice of the City (1908) and so on
B) US Dispensary was a reference book
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories include Whirligigs (1910) and Strictly Business (1910) and others
B) O. Henry’s collections of stories include Options (1909), Roads of Destiny (1909) and others
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s collections of stories were immediately popular
B) Porter came across US Dispensary in his work in the prison pharmacy
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) O. Henry’s schooling was rudimentary
B) After working in a drug store, O. Henry went to Texas
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Porter came across US Dispensary in his work in the prison pharmacy
B) William Faulkner wrote As I lay sleeping between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. during a space of six summer weeks
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Porter started to write short stories under the pseudonym of O. Henry
B) William Faulkner ‘s books include Requiem for a Monk (1951), published in Penguins
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Sherwood Anderson encouraged William Faulkner
B) William Faulkner never wrote Sanctuary
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Some collections of stories by O. Henry were published after Porter’s death in 2009
B) O. Henry was employed by the Houston Post to write a humorous daily column
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The pseudonym of O. Henry was adopted from a French pharmacist mentioned in the US Dispensary
B) After the war William Faulkner attended the university of Mississippi one time.
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) US Dispensary was a reference book
B) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather had been one of the wild characters of Chelyabinsk
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) While working in New Orleans William Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson
B) Sherwood Anderson encouraged William Faulkner
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) While working in New Orleans William Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson
B) William Faulkner never intended Sanctuary to be sensational enough to attract sales, which had not been good on his earlier books
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner for several years did odd jobs of many kinds
B) William Faulkner was rejected by the U.S. Navy when America entered into the First World War
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner for several years did yoga
B) While working in New Orleans William Faulkner met Gans Christian Anderson
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner had made little impression at school, but a great one in prison
B) William Faulkner was rejected by the U.S. Navy when America entered into the First World War
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner had made little impression at school
B) William Faulkner was rejected by the U.S. Army when America entered into the First World War
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner never intended Sanctuary to be sensational enough to attract sales, which had not been good on his earlier books
B) William Faulkner worked on scripts in Hollywood, simply for the girls
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner served in the Canadian Flying Corps
B) O. Henry’s collections of stories don’t include Whirligigs (1910) and Strictly Business (1910) and others
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner served in the Russian OMON
B) After the war William Faulkner attended the university of Mississippi one time
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was a pilot
B) O. Henry was employed by Komsomolka to write a humorous daily column about Luzhkov
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was a pilot
B) William Faulkner served in the Canadian Flying Corps
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was a sailor
B) William Faulkner ‘s books include Requiem for a Monk (1951), published in Penguins
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1949
B) William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Price for Phisics in 1949
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Price for Phisics in 1949
B) O. Henry was arrested
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was born near Oxford, Mississippi
B) William Faulkner was born in 1897
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was born, but died at once
B) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather was a notorious serial killer
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner was in fact never born
B) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather had been one of the wild characters of Chelyabinsk
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner worked on scripts in Hollywood, simply for the money
B) William Faulkner intended Sanctuary to be sensational enough to attract sales, which had not been good on his earlier books
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner worked on scripts in Hollywood, simply for the money
B) William Faulkner was a sailor
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner wrote As I lay dying between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. during a space of six summer weeks
B) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather was a notorious serial killer
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner wrote As I lay dying in1830
B) William Faulkner never wrote Sanctuary
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner wrote As I lay dying in1930
B) William Faulkner had made little impression at school, but a great one in prison
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner wrote As I lay dying in1930
B) William Faulkner wrote As I lay dying between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. during a space of six summer weeks
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldier’s Pay in 1926
B) William Faulkner wrote As I lay dying in1830
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner wrote his first novel
B) Soldier’s Pay in 1926
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner wrote Sanctuary
B) William Faulkner served in the Russian OMON
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner ‘s books include Get Down Tonight, Moses (1942), Intruder in the Dust (1948) and so on
B) William Faulkner wrote As I lay sleeping between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. during a space of six summer weeks
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner ‘s books include Go Down, Moses (1942), Intruder in the Dust (1948) and so on
B) Not long before his death in July 1962 William Faulkner moved his home to Charlottesville, Virginia
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner ‘s books include Heavy in June (1932), The Wild Palms (1939) and so on
B) Henry spent three years in the federal penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner ‘s books include Heavy in June (1932), The Wild Palms (1939) and so on
B) Not long before his death in July 1962 William Faulkner moved his home to Charlottesville, Virginia
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner ‘s books include Light in August (1932), The Wild Palms (1939) and so on
B) William Faulkner wrote Sanctuary
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather had been one of the wild characters of the South
B) William Faulkner’s great-grandfather was Colonel William Faulkner
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: This effort was framed and hung in the drug store ___________ by the side of the ear of corn with an uneven number of rows
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Not by the ___________ of Benvenuto Cellini! I guess I can sell papers or lay cobblestones, and bring in a dollar or two
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: All right,’ said Joe, reaching for the blue scalloped vegetable dish. ‘But I hate for you to be giving _________. It isn’t Art. But you’re a trump and a dear to do it
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And how are the semiquavers and the demi-... progressing?” he always asks
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And my advice to the rich young man would be – sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor – janitor for the privilege of living in a ___________ with your Art and your Delia
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And then Joe, with the air of a Monte Cristo, drew forth a ten, a five, a two and a ___________ – all legal tender notes – and laid them beside Delia’s earnings
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And then she always dresses entirely in _________, and that does get monotonous
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And Tinkle gave me permission to hang two of them in his _________. I may sell one if the right kind of a moneyed idiot sees them
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: At six he drew a picture of the ___________ pump with a prominent citizen passing it hastily
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: At ___________ he left for New York with a flowing necktie and a capital tied up somewhat closer
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But after awhile Art flagged. It sometimes does, even if some switchman doesn’t flag it. Everything going out and nothing coming in, as the _________. say
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But General Pinkney is the ___________ old man! I wish you could know him, Joe
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But the best, in my _________, was the home life in the little flat – the ardent, voluble chats after the day’s study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Delia came and hung about his _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Delia Caruthers did things in six octaves so promisingly in a pine-tree village in the South that her relatives chipped in enough in her chip hat for her to go ‘_______’ and ‘finish.’
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Delia was studying under Rosenstock – you know his repute as a disturber of the piano _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: During all of tie next week the Larrabees had an early _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Flat-dwellers shall endorse my dictum that theirs is the only true _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: For two or three days she went out canvassing for pupils. One ___________ she came home elated
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He comes in sometimes when I am with Clementina at the piano – he is a _________, you know – and stands there pulling his white goatee
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I wish you could see the wainscoting in that drawing-room, Joe! And those Astrakhan rug portieres. And Clementina has such a funny little _________.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: If a home is happy it cannot fit too close – let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the wash-stand to an upright _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was most times seven ___________ when he returned in the evening
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I’m sure you will,’ said Delia sweetly. ‘And now let’s be thankful for General Pinkney and this veal _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I’m to give three lessons a week; and, just think, Joe! _________5, a lesson. I don’t mind it a bit
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Joe and Delia became enamoured one of the other or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married – for (see above), when one loves one’s Art no service seem too _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and ___________ students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, Rembrandt’s works pictures, Waldteufel, wall-paper, Chopin, and Oolong
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Joe Larrabee came out of the post-oak flats of the Middle West pulsing with a genius for pictorial _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Joe was enthusiastic about some morning-effect sketches he was doing in Central _________, and Delia packed him off breakfasted, coddled, praised, and kissed at seven o’clock. Art is an engaging mistress
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Joe was painting in the class of the great Magister – you know his fame. His ___________ are high; his lessons are light – his high-lights have brought him renown
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Joe was to become capable very soon of turning out pictures that old ___________ with thin side-whiskers and thick pocket-books would sandbag one another in his studio for the privilege of buying
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Joe, dear, you are _________. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Magister praised the ___________ in that sketch I made in the park,’ said Joe
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: My pupil is his daughter Clementina. I ___________ love her already
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Now, smooth out that wrinkle between your _________, dear, and let’s have a nice supper
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Oh, I really am getting attached to her, she is so gentle and high bred. General Pinkney’s brother was ___________ Minister to Bolivia
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She’s a delicate thing – dresses always in white; and the sweetest, simplest manners! Only eighteen ___________ old
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sometimes,’ she said, a little wearily, ‘Clementina tries me. I’m afraid she doesn’t practice enough, and I have to tell her the same things so _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That is our _________This story shall draw a conclusion from it, and show at the same time that the premise is incorrect
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That will be a new thing in logic, and a feat in story-telling somewhat older than the Great Wall of _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That’s all right for you, Dele,’ said Joe, attacking a can of peas with a carving knife and a _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: They could not see her, but that is our _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: They were mighty happy as long as their money lasted. So is every – but I will not be _________. Their aims were very clear and defined
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When one loves one’s Art no service seems too _________. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to keep the chafing dish bubbling
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When ___________ loves one’s Art no service seems too hard,’ said Delia
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: While I teach I learn. I am always with my _________. And we can live as happily as millionaires on $15 a week. You mustn’t think of leaving Mr. Magister
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___________ was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Herr Rosenstock their prices
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel:I hope she is ___________ than she looks
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel:Mr. and Mrs. Larrabee began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome flat – something like the A sharp way down at the left-hand end of the keyboard. And they were _________; for they had their Art and they had each other
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: George Willard and the telegraph operator came into the main street of Winesburg. The lights from the store windows lay bright and shining on the sidewalks. People moved about laughing and _________. The young reporter felt ill and weak. In imagination, he also became old and shapeless. “I didn’t get her mother killed,” said Wash Williams, staring up and down the street
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: George Willard went one evening to walk with Belle Carpenter, a trimmer of women’s hats who worked in a millinery shop kept by Mrs. Kate McHugh. The young man was not in love with the woman, who, in fact, had a suitor who worked as bartender in Ed Griffith’s saloon, but as they walked about under the trees they ___________ embraced
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Half frightened and yet fascinated by the light burning in the eyes of the ___________ old man, George Willard listened, afire with curiosity. Darkness came on and he leaned forward trying to see the face of the man who talked. When, in the gathering darkness, he could no longer see the purple, bloated face and the burning eyes, a curious fancy came to him
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had ___________ Wash into the obscure office at Winesburg to avoid discharging him, and he meant to keep him there. When he received the letter of complaint from the banker’s wife, he tore it up and laughed unpleasantly. For some reason he thought of his own wife as he tore up the letter
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I tell you, all women are dead, my mother, your mother, that tall dark woman who works in the millinery store and with whom I saw you walking about yesterday – all of them, they are all dead. I tell you there is something rotten about them. I was married, _________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In all of Winesburg there was but one person who knew the story of the thing that had made ugly the person and the character of Wash Williams. He once told the story to George Willard and the telling of the tale came about in this _________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the darkness the young reporter found himself imagining that he sat on the railroad ties beside a comely young man with black hair and black shining eyes. There was something ___________ beautiful in the voice of Wash Williams, the hideous, telling his story of hate
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In Winesburg no attention was paid to Wash Williams and his hatred to his fellows. Once Mrs. White, the banker’s wife, complained to the telegraph company, saying that the office in Winesburg was ___________ and smelled abominably, but nothing came of her complaint. Here and there a man respected the operator
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent. When Wash walked through the streets such a one had an instinct to pay him _________, to raise his hat or to bow before him. The superintendent who had supervision over the telegraph operators on the railroad that went through Winesburg felt that way
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: My wife was dead before she married me, she was a foul thing come out of a woman more foul. She was a thing sent to make life ___________ to me. I was a fool, do you see, as you are now, and so I married this woman. I would like to see men a little begin to understand women
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: On the next evening the operator and George Willard walked out together. Down the railroad they went and sat on a pile of decaying railroad ties ___________ the tracks. It was then that the operator told the young reporter his story of hate
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Perhaps a dozen times George Willard and the strange, shapeless man who lived at his father’s hotel had been on the point of _________. The young man looked at the hideous, leering face staring about the hotel dining room and was consumed with curiosity
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Something he saw ___________ in the staring eyes told him that the man who had nothing to say to others had nevertheless something to say to him. On the pile of railroad ties on the summer evening, he waited expectantly
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The night and their own thoughts had _________something in them. As they were returning to Main Street they passed the little lawn beside the railroad station and saw Wash Williams apparently asleep on the grass beneath a tree
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams did not associate with the men of the town in which he lived. ‘I’ll have nothing to do with them,” he said, looking with bleary eyes at the men who walked along the station platform past the telegraph office. Up along Main Street he went in the evening to Ed Griffith’s saloon, and after drinking unbelievable quantities of beer staggered off to his ___________ in the New Willard House and to his bed for the night
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams once had a wife. When he was still a young man he married a woman at Dayton, Ohio. The woman was tall and ___________ and had blue eyes and yellow hair. Wash was himself a comely youth. He loved the woman with a love as absorbing as the hatred he later felt for all women
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams spat forth a succession of vile oaths. “Yes, she is dead,” he agreed. “She is dead as all women are dead. She is a living-dead thing, walking in the sight of men and making the earth foul by her presence.” Staring into the boy’s eyes, the man became purple with _________. “Don’t have fool notions in your head,” he commanded
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams was a man of _________. A thing had happened to him that made him hate life, and he hated it whole-heartedly, with the abandon of a poet. First of all, he hated women. “Bitches,” he called them. His feeling toward men was somewhat different. He pitied them. “Does not every man let his life be managed for him by some bitch or another?” he asked
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When the operator remained silent and seemed to have changed his mind about talking, he tried to make conversation. “Where you ever married, Mr Williams?” he _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: An old nigger woman named Mollie Beauchamp,’ Stevens said. ‘She and her husband live on the Edmond’s place. It’s her grandson. You remember him – Butch Beauchamp, about five or six years ago, who spent a year in town, mostly in _________, until they finally caught him breaking into Rouncewell’s store one night? Well, he’s in worth trouble than that now
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And by Jupiter, if I had and if she had known what we know even, I ___________ she would have said yes. But I didn’t say it. I just said, “Why, you couldn’t read it, Aunty.” And she said, “Miss Belle will show me where to look and I can look at hit. You put hit in de paper. All of hit.”’
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And on the next bright hot day but one of the hearse and the two cars were waiting when the southbound train _________. There were more than a dozen cars, but it was not until the train came in that Stevens and the editor began to notice the number of people, Negroes and whites both
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And that’s who I am to find, save, Stevens thought. Because he did not for a moment doubt the old Negress’s _________. If she had also been able to divine where the boy was and what his trouble was, he would not have been surprised, and it was only later that he thought to be surprised at how quickly he did find where the boy was and what was wrong
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Because at nineteen he had quit the country and come to town and spent a year in and out of jail for gambling and fighting, to come at last under serious indictment for breaking and entering a _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Because he did not for a moment doubt the old Negress’s instinct And not the sheriff, the police, he thought. Something broader, quicker in scope… He rose and took his old fine worn panama and descended the outside stairs and crossed the empty square in the hot suspension of noon’s beginning, to the _________of the county newspaper
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Caught red-handed, whereupon he had struck with a piece of iron pipe at the officer who surprised him and then lay on the ground where the officer had felled him with a pistol-butt, ___________ through his broken mouth, his teeth fixed into something like furious laughter through the blood
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Children stopping before the cage are fascinated, men turn away with an air of disgust, and women ___________ for a moment, trying perhaps to remember which one of their male acquaintances the thing in some faint was resembles
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Five minutes later Stevens was crossing again the empty square in which noon’s hot suspension was that much nearer. He had thought that he was going home to his boarding-house for the noon meal, but he found that he was not. ‘Besides, I didn’t ___________ my office door,’ he thought
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Had you been in the earlier years of your life a citizen of the village of Winesburg, Ohio, there would have been for you no ___________ in regard to the beast in his cage
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He sat in the hot motion which was not breeze and listened to her toiling slowly down the steep outside stairs, remembering the grandson. The papers of that business had passed across the desk before going to the District Attorney five or six years ago – Butch Beauchamp, as the youth had been known during the single year he had spent in and out of the city _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He ___________ now that it was Edmonds who had actually sent the boy to Jefferson in the first place: he had caught the boy breaking into his commissary store and had ordered him off the place and had forbidden him ever to return. And that’s who I am to find, save, Stevens thought
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His first thought was to telephone Carothers Edmonds, on whose farm the old Negress’s husband had been a ___________ for years. But then, according to her, Edmonds had already refused to have anything to do with it. Then he sat perfectly still while the hot wind blew in his wild white mane. Now he comprehended what the old Negress had meant
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I go too fast. Not everything about Wash was unclean. He took care of his hands. His fingers were _________, but there was something sensitive and shapely in the hand that lay on the table by the instrument in the telegraph office
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner of his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, _________, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In his youth Wash Williams had been called the best telegraph operator in the state, and in spite of his degradement to the obscure ___________ at Winesburg, he was still proud of his ability
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Only, how under the sun she could have got to town from those seventeen miles. She may even have walked. ‘So it seems I didn’t mean what I said I hoped,’ he said aloud, mounting the outside stairs again, out of the hazy and now windless sunglare, and entered his _________. He stopped
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She wanted that casket and those flowers and the hearse and she wanted to ride through town behind it in a car. ‘Come on’ he said. ‘Let’s _________back to town. I haven’t seen my desk in two days.’
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Stevens reached over and cut the switch, so that the editor’s _________coasted, slowing as he began to brake it, the hearse and the other car drawing rapidly away now as though in flight, the light and unrained summer dust spurting from beneath the fleeing wheels; soon they were gone
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The editor was in – an older man but with hair less white than Stevens’s, in a black string tie and an old-fashioned boiled shirt and tremendously _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then two nights later he broke out of jail and was seen no more – a youth not yet twenty-one, with something in him from the father who begot and deserted him and who was now in the State ___________ for mans laughter – some seed not only violent but dangerous and bad
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then, with Miss Worsham and the old Negress in Stevens’s car with the driver he had ___________ and himself and the editor in the editor’s, they followed the hearse as it swung into the long hill up from the station, going fast in a whining lower gear until it reached the crest, going pretty fast still but with an unctuous, an almost bishoplike purr until it slowed into the square
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then, with the idle white men and youths and small boys and probably half a hundred Negroes, men and women too, watching quietly, the Negro undertaker’s men lifted the grey-and-silver casket from the train and ___________ it to the hearse and snatched the wreaths and floral symbols of man’s ultimate and inevitable end briskly out and slid the casket in and flung the flowers back and clapped-to the door
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: This monkey is a true monster. In the completeness of his ugliness he achieved a kind of ___________ beauty
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Wash Williams, the telegraph operator of Winesburg, was the ugliest thing in town. His girth was immense, his neck thin, his legs feeble. He was _________. Everything about him was unclean. Even the whites of his eyes looked soiled
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When they reached the edge of town the hearse was going quite fast. Now they flashed past the metal sigh which said Jefferson. Corporate limit, and the pavement vanished, slanting away into another long _________, becoming gravel
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: ‘Oh,’ Stevens said. Yes, he thought. It doesn’t matter to her now. Since it had to be and she couldn’t ___________ it, and now that it’s all over and done and finished, she doesn’t care how he died. She just wanted him home, but she wanted him to come home right
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: ‘That’s what I said,’ the editor said. ‘ And she said it again: “Is you gonter put hit in de paper? I wants hit all in de paper. All of hit.” And I wanted to say, “If I should happen to know how he really died, do you want that in _________”
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: “It is like Wash Williams,” you would have said. “As he sits in the corner there, the beast is exactly like the old Wash sitting on the ___________ in the station yard on a summer evening after he has closed his office for the night.”
Choose the right preposition: . I hated the men I thought had wronged her. I was sick of being alone and wanted her back. The longer I waited the more raw and tender I became. I thought that if she came in and just touched me ___________ her hand I would perhaps faint away. I ached to forgive and forget
Choose the right preposition: . Up along Main Street he went in the evening to Ed Griffith’s saloon, and after drinking unbelievable quantities of beer staggered off to his room in the New Willard House and ___________ his bed for the night
Choose the right preposition: And if you belong ___________ the half to whom waiters’ checks are things of moment, you should know Bogle’s, for there you get your money’s worth – in quantity, at least
Choose the right preposition: Another one known as ‘Freshy’, who rode ___________ the Traction Company’s repair wagon, was going to give her a poodle as soon as his brother got the hauling contract in the Ninth. And the man who always ate spareribs and spinach and said he was a stockbroker asked her to go to ‘Parsifal’ with him
Choose the right preposition: At least twice a week someone took her ___________ a theatre or to a dance. One stout gentleman whom she and Tildy had privately christened ‘The Hog’ presented her with a turquoise ring
Choose the right preposition: At the cashier’s desk sits Bogle, cold, sordid, slow, smouldering, and takes your money. Behind a mountain of toothpicks he makes your change, files your check, and ejects ___________ you, like a toad, a word about the weather. Beyond a corroboration of his meteorological statement you would better not venture
Choose the right preposition: Bogle’s is situated ___________ that highway of bourgeoisie, that boulevard of Brown- Jones-and-Robinson, Eighth Avenue. There are two rows of tables in the room, six in each row. On each table is a castor-stand, containing cruets of condiments and seasons
Choose the right preposition: For a moment there was a catch in the voice of the man talking in the darkness. “I loved her,” he said. “I don’t claim not to be a fool. I love her yet . There ___________ the dusk in the spring evening I crawled along the black ground to her feet and groveled before her. I kissed her shoes and the ankles above her shoes
Choose the right preposition: From the pepper cruet you may shake a cloud of something tasteless and melancholy, like volcanic dust. From the salt cruet you may expect nothing. Though a man should extract a sanguinary stream from the pallid turnip, yet will his prowess be balked when he comes to wrest salt ___________ Bogle’s cruets
Choose the right preposition: George Willard went one evening to walk with Belle Carpenter, a trimmer of women’s hats who worked in a millinery shop kept ___________ Mrs. Kate McHugh. The young man was not in love with the woman, who, in fact, had a suitor who worked as bartender in Ed Griffith’s saloon, but as they walked about under the trees they occasionally embraced
Choose the right preposition: Had you been in the earlier years of your life a citizen of the village of Winesburg, Ohio, there would have been for you no mystery in regard to the beast in his cage. “It is like Wash Williams,” you would have said. “As he sits _________the corner there, the beast is exactly like the old Wash sitting on the grass in the station yard on a summer evening after he has closed his office for the night.”
Choose the right preposition: He had put Wash into the obscure office ___________ Winesburg to avoid discharging him, and he meant to keep him there. When he received the letter of complaint from the banker’s wife, he tore it up and laughed unpleasantly. For some reason he thought of his own wife as he tore up the letter
Choose the right preposition: I go too fast. Not everything about Wash was unclean. He took care ___________ his hands. His fingers were fat, but there was something sensitive and shapely in the hand that lay on the table by the instrument in the telegraph office
Choose the right preposition: I was married, sure. My wife was dead before she married me, she was a foul thing come out ___________ a woman more foul. She was a thing sent to make life unbearable to me. I was a fool, do you see, as you are now, and so I married this woman
Choose the right preposition: I would like to see men a little begin to understand women. They are sent to prevent men making the world worth while. It is a trick in Nature. Ugh! They are creeping, crawling, squirming things, they ___________ their soft hands and blue
Choose the right preposition: If the transients were entranced by the fascinating Aileen, the regulars were her adorers. There was much rivalry ___________ many of the steady customers. Aileen could have had an engagement every evening
Choose the right preposition: If you do not know Bogle’s Chop house and Family Restaurant it is your loss. For if you are one _________the fortunate ones who dine expensively you should be interested to know how the other half consumes provisions
Choose the right preposition: If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner _________ his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, sagging, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody
Choose the right preposition: In all of Winesburg there was but one person who knew the story of the thing that had made ugly the person and the character of Wash Williams. He once told the story ___________ George Willard and the telling of the tale came about in this way
Choose the right preposition: In Winesburg no attention was paid to Wash Williams and his hatred to his fellows. Once Mrs. White, the banker’s wife, complained ___________ the telegraph company, saying that the office in Winesburg was dirty and smelled abominably, but nothing came of her complaint. Here and there a man respected the operator
Choose the right preposition: Instinctively the man felt ___________ him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent. When Wash walked through the streets such a one had an instinct to pay him homage, to raise his hat or to bow before him. The superintendent who had supervision over the telegraph operators on the railroad that went through Winesburg felt that way
Choose the right preposition: On the next evening the operator and George Willard walked out together. Down the railroad they went and sat ___________ a pile of decaying railroad ties beside the tracks. It was then that the operator told the young reporter his story of hate
Choose the right preposition: On the pile of railroad ties ___________ the summer evening, he waited expectantly. When the operator remained silent and seemed to have changed his mind about talking, he tried to make conversation
Choose the right preposition: Perhaps a dozen times George Willard and the strange, shapeless man who lived _________his father’s hotel had been on the point of talking. The young man looked at the hideous, leering face staring about the hotel dining room and was consumed with curiosity
Choose the right preposition: Something he saw lurking in the staring eyes told him that the man who had nothing to say to others had nevertheless something to say ___________ him.. “Where you ever married, Mr Williams?” he began
Choose the right preposition: Stevens reached over and cut the switch, so that the editor’s car coasted, slowing as he began to brake it, the hearse and the other car drawing rapidly away now as though in flight, the light and unrained summer dust spurting ___________ beneath the fleeing wheels; soon they were gone
Choose the right preposition: The customers at Bogle’s were her slaves. Six tables full she could wait upon at once. They who were in a hurry restrained their impatience ___________ the joy of merely gazing upon her swiftly moving, graceful figure
Choose the right preposition: The editor turned his car clumsily, grinding the gears, sawing and filing until it was back in the road facing town again. Then he sat ___________ a moment, his foot on the clutch
Choose the right preposition: The girl was ashamed and stood perfectly still staring ___________ the floor. The mother didn’t come into the room. When she had pushed the girl in through the door she stood in the hallway waiting, hoping we would – well, you see – waiting
Choose the right preposition: The name ___________ the other waitress was Tildy. Why do you suggest Matilda? Please listen this name – Tildy – Tildy. Tildy was dumpy, plain-faced, and too anxious to please to please. Repeat the last clause to yourself once or twice, and make the acquaintance of the duplicate infinite
Choose the right preposition: The needs of Bogle’s customers were supplied by two waitresses and a Voice. One of the waitresses was named Aileen. She was tall, beautiful, lively, gracious and learned in persiflage. Her other name? There was no more necessity for the other name at Bogle’s than there was ___________ finger-bowls
Choose the right preposition: The night and their own thoughts had aroused something ___________ them. As they were returning to Main Street they passed the little lawn beside the railroad station and saw Wash Williams apparently asleep on the grass beneath a tree
Choose the right preposition: The Voice at Bogle’s was invisible. It came from the kitchen, and did not shine in the way of originality. It was a heathen Voice, and contented itself ___________ vain repetitions of exclamations emitted by the waitresses concerning food
Choose the right preposition: Then, with Miss Worsham and the old Negress in Stevens’s car with the driver he had hired and himself and the editor _________the editor’s, they followed the hearse as it swung into the long hill up from the station, going fast in a whining lower gear until it reached the crest
Choose the right preposition: Then, with the idle white men and youths and small boys and probably half a hundred Negroes, men and women too, watching quietly, the Negro undertaker’s men lifted the grey-and-silver casket from the train and carried it ___________ the hearse and snatched the wreaths and floral symbols of man’s ultimate and inevitable end briskly out and slid the casket in and flung the flowers back and clapped-to the door
Choose the right preposition: There was nothing to say. I had four hundred dollars in the bank and I gave her that. I didn’t ask her reasons. I didn’t say anything. When she had gone I cried like a silly boy. Pretty soon I had a chance to sell the house and I sent that money ___________ her
Choose the right preposition: They who had finished eating ate more that they might continue ___________ the light of her smiles. Every man there – and they were mostly men – tried to make his impression upon her
Choose the right preposition: This monkey is a true monster. In the completeness of his ugliness he achieved a kind of perverted beauty. Children stopping before the cage are fascinated, men turn away with an air of disgust, and women linger ___________ a moment, trying perhaps to remember which one of their male acquaintances the thing in some faint was resembles
Choose the right preposition: Wash Williams once had a wife. When he was still a young man he married a woman at Dayton, Ohio. The woman was tall and slender and had blue eyes and yellow hair. Wash was himself a comely youth. He loved the woman with a love as absorbing as the hatred he later felt ___________ all women
Choose the right preposition: Wash Williams spat forth a succession of vile oaths. “Yes, she is dead,” he agreed. “She is dead as all women are dead. She is a living-dead thing, walking in the sight of men and making the earth foul ___________ her presence.” Staring into the boy’s eyes, the man became purple with rage
Choose the right preposition: Wash Williams stopped and stood staring at George Willard. The boy’s body shook as ___________ a chill. Again the man’s voice became soft and low. “She came into the room naked,” he went on. “Her mother did that.
Choose the right preposition: Wash Williams was a man of courage. A thing had happened to him that made him hate life, and he hated it whole-heartedly, with the abandon of a poet. First of all, he hated women. “Bitches,” he called them. His feeling toward men was somewhat different. He pitied them. “Does not every man let his life be managed ___________ him by some bitch or another?” he asked
Choose the right preposition: Wash Williams, the telegraph operator of Winesburg, was the ugliest thing in town. His girth was immense, his neck thin, his legs feeble. He was dirty. Everything ___________ him was unclean. Even the whites of his eyes looked soiled
Choose the right preposition: Wash Williams’ voice rose to half scream. “I sat in the parlor of that house two hours. Her mother took me in there and left me. Their house was stylish. They were what is called respectable people. There were plush chairs and a couch ___________ the room. I was trembling all over
Choose the right preposition: When the hem of her garment touched my face I trembled. When after two years of that life I found she had managed to acquire three other lovers who came regularly to our house when I was away at work, I didn’t want to touch them or her. I just sent her home ___________ her mother and said nothing
Choose the right preposition: When they reached the edge of town the hearse was going quite fast. Now they flashed past the metal sigh which said Jefferson. Corporate limit, and the pavement vanished, slanting away ___________ another long hill, becoming gravel
Choose the right preposition: While I sat there she was taking the girl’s clothes off, perhaps coaxing her to do it. First I heard voices ___________ the door that led into a little hallway and then it opened softly
Choose the right preposition: Will it tire you to be told again that Aileen was beautiful? Had she donned a few hundred dollars’ worth ___________ clothes and joined the Easter parade, and had you seen her, you would have hastened to say so yourself
Choose the right preposition: You are not Bogle’s friend; you are a fed, transient customer, and you and he may not meet again until the blowing of Gabriel’s dinner horn. So take your change and go – ___________ the devil if you like. There you have Bogle’s sentiments
Choose the right preposition: “Don’t have fool notions in your head,” he commanded. “My wife, she is dead; yes, surely. I tell you, all women are dead, my mother, your mother, that tall dark woman who works in the millinery store and with whom I saw you walking about yesterday – all of them, they are all dead. I tell you there is something rotten ___________ them
Choose the right preposition: Aileen could successfully exchange repartee against a dozen... once. And every smile that she sent forth lodged, like pellets from a scatter-gun, in as many hearts
Choose the right preposition: And all this while she would be performing astounding feats with orders of pork and beans, pot roasts, ham-and, sausage-and-the-wheats, and any quantity of things ___________ the iron and in the pan and straight up and on the side
Choose the right preposition: With all this feasting and flirting and merry exchange of wit Bogle’s came mighty being a salon, with Aileen ___________ its Madame Recamier
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Put the verb in brackets in the right form: . If she had also been able to divine where the boy was and what his trouble was, he would not (to have) been surprised, and it was only later that he thought to be surprised at how quickly he did find where the boy was and what was wrong
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And during the remainder of that hot and now windless afternoon, while officials from the city hall, and justices of the peace and bailiffs (to come) fifteen and twenty miles from the ends of the country
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And he (will) come in on Number Four the day after tomorrow and we will meet it, Miss Worsham and his grandmother, the old nigger, in my car and you and me in yours
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And maybe fifty around the square. But the rest of it is you and me, because she insisted on (to leave) twenty-five with me, which is just twice what I tried to persuade her it would cost and just exactly four times what she can afford to pay
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And that night after supper he walked through the breathless and star-(to fill) darkness to Miss Worsham’s house on the edge of town and knocked on the paintless front door
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And that’s who I am to find, save, Stevens thought. Because he did not for a moment (to doubt) the old Negress’s instinct
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And Tildy was content to be the unwooed drudge if Aileen could receive the flattery and the hommage. The blunt nose was loyal to the short Grecian. She was Aileen’s friend; and she was glad to see her rule hearts and (to wean) the attention of men from smoking pot-pie and lemon meringue
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Because he did not for a moment doubt the old Negress’s instinct And not the sheriff, the police, he (to think). Something broader, quicker in scope
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But it don’t look like I can (to help) myself. By Jupiter,’ he said ‘even if I could help myself, the novelty will be almost worth it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Caught red-handed, whereupon he had (to strike) with a piece of iron pipe at the officer who surprised him and then lay on the ground where the officer had felled him with a pistol-butt, cursing through his broken mouth, his teeth fixed into something like furious laughter through the blood
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For a few moments Tildy stood petrified. Then she was aware of Aileen (to shake) at her an arch fore finger, and saying
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Hamp Worsham admitted him – an old man, belly-bloated from the vegetables on which he and his wife and Miss Worsham all three mostly (to live), with blurred old eyes and a fridge of white hair about the head and face of a Roman general
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He had caught the boy (to break) into his commissary store and had ordered him off the place and had forbidden him ever to return. And that’s who I am to find, save, Stevens thought
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He rose and took his old fine worn panama and descended the outside stairs and (to cross) the empty square in the hot suspension of noon’s beginning, to the office of the county newspaper
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: His first thought was to telephone Carothers Edmonds, on whose farm the old Negress’s husband had (to be) a tenant for years. But then, according to her, Edmonds had already refused to have anything to do with it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I don’t know yet. It will cost about two hundred. I’m not (to count) the telephones; I’ll take care of them myself
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In steaming, (to chatter), cabbage-scented Bogle’s there was almost a heart tragedy. Tildy with the blunt nose, the hay-coloured hair, the freckled skin, the bag-o’-meal figure had never had an admirer
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I’ll get something out of Carothers Edmonds the first time I (to catch) him; I don’t know how much, but something
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Miss Worsham and the old woman will take him back home, back where he (to be) born. Or where the old woman raised him
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: None of them loudly ‘jollied’ her of mornings as they did Aileen, (to accuse) her, when the eggs were slow in coming, of late hours in the company of envied swains. No one had ever given her a turquoise ring or invited her upon a voyage to mysterious distant ‘Parsifal’
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Not a man followed her with his eyes when she went to and fro in the restaurant save now and then when they glared with the beast-hunger for food. None of them (to banter) her gaily to coquettish interchanges of wit
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: One day when Mr. Seeders came in to dinner he had (to be) drinking beer. There were only two or three customers in the restaurant
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: She herself was now a man-charmer, a mark for Cupid, a Sabine who must (to be) coy when the Romans were at their banquet boards. Man had found her waist achievable and her lips desirable
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The editor (to be) in – an older man but with hair less white than Stevens’s, in a black string tie and an old-fashioned boiled shirt and tremendously fat
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The freckles on Tildy’s cheeks merged into a rosy flush. Now both Circe and Psyche peeped from her brightened eyes. Not even Aileen herself had been publicly (to kiss) in the restaurant
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The sudden and amatory Seeders had, as it were, (to perform) for her a miraculous piece of one-day laundry work. He had taken the sackcloth of her uncomeliness, had washed, dried starched and ironed it, and returned it to her sheer embroidered lawn – the robe of Venus herself
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Then he sat perfectly still while the hot wind blew in his wild white mane. Now he comprehended what the old Negress (to have) meant. He remembered now that it was Edmonds who had actually sent the boy to Jefferson in the first place
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Then two nights later he broke out of jail and was seen no more – a youth not yet twenty-one, with something in him from the father who begot and (to desert) him and who was now in the State Penitentiary for mans laughter – some seed not only violent but dangerous and bad
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They (to writhe) in their chairs to gaze around and over the impending form of Tildy, that Aileen’s pulchritude might season and make ambrosia of their bacon and eggs
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Tildy could not keep the delightful secret. When trade was slack she went and stood at Bogle’s desk. Her eyes were (to shine); she tried not to let her words sound proud and boastful
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Tildy listened to the adventure with breathless admiration. No man had ever tried to follow her. She was safe abroad at any hour of the twenty-four. What bliss it must have been to have (to have) a man follow one and black one’s eye for love
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Tildy was a good waitress, and the men (to tolerate) her. They who sat at her tables spoke to her briefly with quotations from the bill of fare; and then raised their voices in honeyed and otherwise-flavoured accents, eloquently addressed to the fair Aileen
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When Mr. Seeders had finished his weakfish he (to get) up, put his arm around Tildy’s waist, kissed her loudly and impudently, walked out upon the street, snapped his fingers in the direction of the laundry, and hied himself to play pennies in the slot machines at the Amusement Arcade
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: ‘Fresh guy,’ explained Aileen, ‘last night as I (to be) going home at Twenty-third and Sixth. Sashayed up, so he did, and made a break. I turned him down, cold, and he made a sneak, but followed me down to Eighteenth, and tried his hot air again. Gee! but I slapped him a good one, side of the face. Than he give me that eye
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: ‘Have already (to promise) beforehand you will not print,’ Stevens said
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: ‘We’re bringing him home,’ he (to say). ‘Miss Worsham and you and me and some others
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Never (to mind) about a paper to sign: just give me a dollar. Or half a dollar then. Or a quarter then