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Cormac McCarthy's Words Unique to

The data set used for this report include all the words in Cormac McCarthy's: , , Child of God, , , All the Pretty Horses, , The Crossing, The Gardener’s Son, , Cities of the Plain, , , . Title pages, chapter numbers and page numbers have been removed.

Total unique words: 471

99 166 bison 188 celtic 4 1885 162, 166 blacker'n 21 centipedes 189 1965 193 blacksnake 16 cents' 126 adam 81 blalock 147 cerebella 26 adipocere 196 blanketful 155 chamberpot 177 apertures 188 blanketload 107, 155 charles's 94 appealin 167 bluebills 165 chaser 28 appletrees 3 bluedot 27 cheatin 62 askance 32 bluer 40 checkered 95 assessing 100 bluetailed 65 cheeping 23 aswamp 156 blurted 98 chickennecked 117 attaching 166 bonehard 189 chores 26 autioneer's 5 bonged 3 chuck 136 backoared 160 borry 29 church-bench 55 ballard 9-16, 18-20, 22-26, 28-34, 37- borry'd 35 churchbus 190 39, 42-43, 46-47, 50-56, 61-66, 69-71, boxin 58 churchgoin 38 73-74, 76-80, 85-91, 93-94, 96-100, boy'd 58 cigarstub 73 102-105, 107-119, 121-141, 149-152, bra 99 clawful 189 154-157, 169, 172-176, 178-184, 186- brassiere 87 clayshards 159 188, 190 brethren 31 coalpile 118 ballard's 42, 52, 54, 64, 109, 117-118, bridgeblowers 65 cocke 114 126, 134, 149, 152, 154, 158-159, bristled 4 commiting 155 177-179, 182, 185 broomstraw 3 comply 56 balsams 41 brownish 76 compositions 8 bannister 54 bruce 161, 164 condensing 78 bares 180 buoy 156 condom 88 barker 64 busynosed 63 constipated 46 barnloft 66 cadaver's 196 convertibles 27 barnslats 4 calcite 134 cornpicker 40 batwings 155 callie 27 cottoncandy 61 bedpan 177 canals 160 could'nt 26, 64 bellshaped 135 candyapple 65 cowards 165 benastied 77 canis 65 crabapple 118 berryeyed 120 cappin 167 cramming 66 berrystains 138 cardoors 180 crateful 58 birdcall 87 carmine 140 crawlway 107 birdhunters 58 carparts 26 crazy-looking 104 birdhuntin 49 catlett 166 creep 27 births 27 cavemud 141 cubby 137 custard 175 forepaw 26 homeplace 109, 138 darfuzzle 46 formalin 194 hornets 14 deader'n 87 foxhounds 23 house's 109 deermice 127 foxtails 27 husbanding 40 delineated 194 freshness 191 ill[-]shaven 7 democrat 166 frightwig 172 illfit 140 dictionary 26 froggy 150 impatient 62 disarray 86 frostflowers 158 imprimatur 140 disassemble 157 gaggle 104 improvin 6 dish-shaped 77 galaxy 65 inculpate 189 dissected 194 ghastliness 174 intaglio 138 dissolute 27 gibson's 48, 196 invocation 155 doilies 139 gingery 159 ironrust 190 dovelike 140 glassfanged 128 jailed 51 downsun 33 glassine 89 jellybean 28 drawins 5 gleaned 26 jellybeans 38 drizzled 161 glycerine 65 jess 5 drumlike 24 goatbone 46 jigsaw 95 dumpkeeper 26, 37, 110 god-damn 119 jimson 13 dunked 74 goddamnedest 161 jobber 131 dustwebbed 137 goldfish 61 kewpie 61 effortless 73 gong 172 kneelength 168 eggin 58 gorilla 58 lacings 101 elk 188 grainger 9 lanky 27 embracing 20 greer 9, 22, 109, 113, 137, 139-140, lateen 77 emery 74 172 legislature 166 enmeshed 69 greer's 136, 172 leisure 51 eustis 162 gresham 22 leland 80 eviscerated 194 grievous 189 lester 7-11, 14, 17-18, 22, 29-30, 37- explored 187 guywire 25 38, 46, 81, 110-111, 114, 117-118, eyes' 42 gymnast 88 172, 177 facile 41 hairnets 130 lightcord 76 fairs 58 half-eaten 130 lingerie 97 falter 173 halfdollar's 29 lipstick 90, 102 fatback 52 halfpound 99 liquefied 151 featherdrill 38 halfsole 80 lncludin 125 feedroom 137 halltree 52 lobed 189 fencer 134 hardy 73 longest 44 fiddlepeg 3 haruspices 194 losses 126 figurin 126 hattiesburg 81 loudspeaker 4 filmcutter's 173 hawkwinged 61 lugwrench 146 finney 17 heaters 39 lyons 194 firecrackers 58 heatin 72 machinegunned 38 firedog 14 helton's 35 mainstream 160 fishers 61 hen's 137 master's 86 flatshanked 28 hernia 26 mausoleum 196 flddlebacked 4 hernie 38 meaner 168 flimsy 97 hindfender 19 millard 166 floorsill 24 hiploose 115 mingled 190 footwork 59 hogback 136 misters 58 foreboding 25 holograph 69 misunderstandin 51 mizzes 111 plainspoken 44 shredding 119 moldcrept 158 playpretty 77 sicked 166 more's 116 pneumonia 193 sickish 115 mortarclay 14 poleaxed 58 singe 105 mosquitoes 16 popskull 28 sixmile 22, 31 motherfucker's 53 porchboards 173 skids 183 motorcars 70 porchpost 50 slumpshouldered 95 muddied 78 postoffice 55 snare 182 mudslide 188 prater 6 snowclogged 66 multiple 5 premonition 104 snowfall 136, 139 mutations 13 prevalence 55 snowfilled 107 naps 187 primate 77 softball 17 narroweyed 28 prizes 61-62, 64 softlooking 135 niggerized 27 probation 114 soprano 23 nightdress 41 provinces 23 sortie 97 nightduty 192 pumphouse 172 sounder 6 nightgown 46, 95, 178 pupae 14 soundest 6 nightshift 180 puppeteers 196 sousemeat 124 nine-teen 125 puttied 191 spald 189 nineteen-five 6 quarterpint 175 sparring 185 ninety-four 126 quench 74 speedin 161 noticin 49 quenchbucket 74 spiring 158 nub 175 raped 53 sprig 150 nubbin 15 rebalanced 155 sprocketing 179 nubs 79 redoak 57 spruces 136 observations 72 regardless 170 spungg 188 occlusion 170 relaying 39 spying 42 ogle 195 relent 157 sqinted 28 olden 191 rescued 186 squatter 41 onearmed 192 reubel 37 squawks 4 onetime 138 reveals 138 squirrelhunter 86 oooh 28 rimshard 41 stashed 155 organized 165 rives 104 steamboat 166 orvis 130 roadfork 91 stippling 110 otis 180 robin 75, 77 stobby 71 outerwear 140 rupture 105 store's 129 outstrip 81 sackfuls 40 straddlelegged 4 oxes 36 sailmakers 189 stratified 190 pare 125 salesgirl 97 strobic 4 parker 161 savins 165 students 194 parsons 49 scallops 196 stumpwood 103 parton 112 scratchpad 100, 125 stygian 158 passible 148 scruggs 161 suzie 49 payout 126 seduction 19 suzie's 49 pebble[-]grain 51 sentinels 26 swains 26 perenially 77 seventy-four 31 swathings 175 pete's 44 sharpenin 70 taillamps 27 piebald 24 sheathing 188 teasin 117 pitchlight 65 shinny 184 teddybear 64 pitchmen 63 shirtcollar 75 tempers 74 piteous 24 showcase 162 tendering 130 thaws 138 windowcorner 20 thesens 131 windowpane 103 thrash 156 womanchild 65 threatless 20 woodpecker 32 threes 76 wristwatches 130 tiger 64-65, 67, 105 wynn 166 tinged 15 yodelers 68 tirechains 128 titties 29, 118 toenailed 116 tonged 73 tormentors 182 tottertoy 79 tracts 5 trantham 36 treedogs 41 trolleyed 64 trousercuff 15 trousercuffs 158 tuyer 72 unbuttomed 20 unleaned 50, 97 unmeated 189 unreeling 145 unscramble 51 upsetting 52 upswept 169 urethra 26 vault's 133 vindication 62 vitriolic 155 voters 81 wagonseat 170 waldrop 35, 112 waldrop's 34 wallward 4 watchbuyer 131 weedlot 104 weedshaped 192 weem 196 weirs 141 wellhouse 109 whaley 57 whaleys 166 wheelhorse 165 whelps 189 whishing 65 widows 165 willy 196 wimpling 33 windfelled 127