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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 5 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.
- Ellen was appalled at the expense
- Then she slapped Milton on the shoulder and added amiably, “I allus said you ought to hev bin a fam’ly man, Red.”
- “You’re a very astute woman, Lily
- The team trotted briskly out of town
- and he had to shake himself briskly and to talk aloud for awhile when the monotony became overpowering
- “Then there’s my oldest brother, John; he jest enlisted last month.”
- he felt proud and exhilarated by his freedom and sense of adventure
- His father, of course, would never consider spending good money for the extravagance of eating in a restaurant
- There was no sound but the creaking of the wagon as it floundered through the sour-smelling mud and over mammoth tree roots
- That’s your forte, you know; get in on any killing you can drum up, so long as your own hide is safe
- they pranced a little during the first two miles, heartened by an extra-good breakfast and perhaps conscious of a light hand on the reins
- his body hunched together as if in an effort to make himself as inconspicuous as possible
- He was panting as he approached the little house set back in a clearing of the woods, indistinct among the shadows and the veils of fog that enveloped it
- the sun’s rays barely got through the great bare branches that overlapped and intertwined above the narrow road
- Jethro laughed a little at the irony
- but they were too much interested to guess that he was holding back some news of keener interest
- as he prepared for the ordeal of mudholes and jutting tree stumps in the road ahead
- She closed her eyes as the beginning pangs of her ordeal pounded at her temples
- They carried his parcels down to the wagon and stored them in the wagon bed
- “Jeth, we need coffee and a passel of other things from town”
- “No, but there was a passel of Reb generals there”
- he wanted desperately to be beyond earshot of the old man’s plaintive questioning
- and the wagon with its load tilted precariously
- His voice was less rough this time, and it held a resonance of anger and sadness that made Jethro remember the stories he had heard of mad old John Brown
- Two dogs rushed out toward Jethro’s team, barking shrilly and snapping at the heels of the horses
- His thoughts skirted the danger that had threatened him
- Jenny was sober as she went about her work
- Jethro maintained the stoic calm of the farm-bred boy as the wagon swayed
- The wind of the night before had subsided, and, though the cold was still sharp, it was more endurable
- He did not dare look at Burdow, but he remembered the sullen, piglike eyes that had stared at him in the store that morning
- Both man and boy seemed to be in tacit agreement that the attack at the bridge was a closed incident
- seconds later the tethered horse at the roadside broke away and galloped off into the darkness ahead of the wagon
- but the dinner with Ross Milton, the kindness of Mrs. Hiles, the gift of a book actually written by the editor himself -- these were the tidbits with which the traveler could reward his family’s hours of waiting for his return
- It had been a wonderful experience, and he looked at the place wistfully as he passed
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