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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 4 of Beyond Five Aprils.
Read each sentence or phrase and see if you can determine the definition by the context in which it is used in the sentence, if you do not already know the meaning of the word.
- There might be another adjustment of his collar, another gift for Shad, more admonitions about his “comp’ny manners,” but, finally, they would let him go
- Jethro did not understand the allusion
- “You look half frozen, Jeth,” he said, and taking the boy’s hand ran with him up to the log annex
- the fighting, especially at Donelson, had been bitter
- This victory has clinched Kentucky to the Union side
- a dread that all the cheers over Fort Henry and Donelson couldn’t dispel
- Jethro was seeing in his mind’s eye gray-clad men standing side by side, forming a single line across miles of fields, hills, and rivers; grim, forbidding men except for one familiar face
- the dreams of men in my generation are as insignificant as that
- The end of war is in sight for the optimists
- A bright red and gold paisley cloth covered his homemade table
- Ed looked pinched with cold after his long drive
- He would remember the rebuke to the end of his days
- savored the flavor of the food
- and Tom helped to give the Confederates a big setback
- and carried buckets of corn from the crib in preparation for the evening feeding of the stock
- The abolitionists hate him as much as the sympathizers of the South do
- I’m setting her the task of reading a lot of them too
- I think he’s being tyrannical and
- but it had a pleasing melody which wailed over some secret that lay under the unintelligible patter of words
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