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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: The Orchard Keeper, , , , , 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: 1724

25 83, 85 aiming 187 attendin 229 33 113 alienated 189 auger-holes 62 80 16 allaying 150 aureole 58, 199 129 31 alluding 13 aureoles 137 197 10 ambience 32 auricular 238 1913 11 amputees 82 austell 10 1919 13 anecdotes 23 autymobile 34 1929 11 angry-looking 107 awfully 104 1936 47 animation 99 axehelves 83 1937 95 anomic 222 back[-]water 161 'm 33 anonymity 12 backer 197 1906-1945 245 anticipation 22 backhouse 21 a-breathin 228 antiquated 56 backlanders 82 a-callin 210 anybody't 148 baffled 203 a-fixin 106, 229 appalachians 10 bagthroated 44 a-hollerin 148 appealed 208 bailin 136 a-standin 204 appendages 34 bakes 10 abandoned-looking 21 apple[-]half 46 balds 198 abiding 42 arabesque 81 ballerina 161 abject 75 arcanely 44 balloons 80 absorbed 237 archeological 48 baloom 141 abutting 61 areaway 166 bang-up 210 acceptance 21 areek 29 banjo 67 accipitral 77 armadillo 172 barbycued 141 acorns 64 armageddon 104 barnlike 22 adam's 116 arrestin 214 bartered 200 adhesive 8 arrogating 245 baseboard 230 adios 76 aryplane 105 bases 94, 97 adjustment 125 ash[-]gray 132 bat-droppings 139 administering 39 ashened 143 bathers 224 admonitions 65 aspired 15 batoned 80 adopting 238 aspires 214 bay's 166, 171 adults 83 assailant 178 baywindows 81 afflict 245 assertively 115 bb's 102 affluence 11 association 33, 162 beacons 176 agamemnon 245 astral 238 beadwork 171 agreeably 236 ather 144-145, 148-150, 153-154, beady 134 aholt 227 208, 224 beagles 135-136, 142 aimin 194 atrophy 29 beamed 100 bearlike 150 boog 135-137, 140 cafés 83 beat-up 192 boog's 140 caird 161 bed-lint 206 booked 210 calculating 24 bee-stung 213 boot-tread 113 calliope-like 82 beech 121 bootcrunch 202 calmly 77, 213 beech-nut 225 boozers 29 campin 236 beetle-like 164 bordello 82 camping 241 behavior 242 borers 63 candent 233 belfry 164 bottlebottoms 164 candypapers 8 bell-flared 225 bottleflies 183 cannonade 186 bell-like 137 bovine 45 cannonaded 20 belly-up 201 box-shaped 12 capping 68 bemusement 26, 164 boys' 139 carapaced 201 best'n 112 brainpan 239 carboniferous 11 betcher 23 braking 19 caress 223 bets 137 brand-new 9 caried 234 bettin 159 brandishing 82 carousels 189 bibledrummer 156 breakfastless 101 carpenter's 11 bides 27 briar 176 carplike 36 bile-sharp 168 brick-red 224 carryin-on 108 billowed 97 bridehood 184 carvings 82 binder 200 bridgewalk 183 casehardened 86 bird-droppings 33 brier 52 cashbox 47 bitch'll 211 brilliant 133 cashier's 79 bitterns 173 brilliantly 47 castor 56 blackoaks 65 brink 54 cat'd 227 blairsville 31 briskly 30 catacombic 13 blastin 151 briskness 105 cataleptic 230 blasting 29 brogan 163, 200 catapulted 100, 106 blasts 97 broken-line 208 catched 228 blending 189 broken[-]down 204 catcher 204 blistering 172 brown-looking 99 cave-men 140 blockaded 165 brown-slimed 182 cavorting 179 blockaders 214 buckeyes 79, 232 ceaselessly 131, 139 blockadin 214 bucksaws 83 cellar-like 58 blood-red 65 buds 206 celled 245 blotches 91 bugles 135 centerpost 100 blubber 53 bull[-]bats 9 centipedal 139 blue-boy 164 bullbriers 89, 123, 224 ceremoniously 193 blue[-]black 16 bulletin 79 chain[-]work 31 blurred 41 bulletins 198 chamois 132 blushed 132 bullfrog 136 chancing 174 boast 13 buoyancy 122 channeled 11, 182 bobcat 31, 152, 208, 227 burgeoned 63 chatterings 101 bodily 44 burrow 217 cheerfully 107, 184 bogged 182 burrowed 172 cherrying 73 bone-end 179 bushy 20 chest-high 135 bone-worn 59 bustle 142 chicken-wire 56 boneless-looking 39 buttertub 193 chickenhawk 79 boneset 82 buttonholes 61 chieftains 36 boneshapes 61 cabe 14, 23, 25, 47 chilled 86, 142 china-blue 226 contort 10 cutter's 161 chirpings 97 convictions 209 cutwater 162 chocolate-dark 178 convivial 163 dabbled 222 choral 173 coombs 44, 187 daddy'd 66 chote 31 coon'd 146 daisyheads 223 chow's 16 coon's 122-123, 126 dazzling 133 christian'd 181 copper-dark 200 deacon 211 ciliate 90 coral-edged 190 dead-white 131, 166 ciphering 85 corduroys 120 dead'n 239 circulated 20 corolla 132 deadwatch 90 circumcised 94 corroboration 34 deadwhite 201 circumspectly 24 coruscant 55 decoratin 211 claimants 63 cosby 165 deep-green 244 clay-beds 173 cottonseed 153 deeport 210 claybank 171 couched 68 definitely 222 clayey 176 counterpoint 90 deflating 80 clinching 122 courting 29 deglutitive 29 cloistral 224 covens 31 deliberation 36, 142 cloying 33 cowshit 160 delinquency 214 clumb 26, 114 cramp 92 delozier 152 cobwebby 72 cramping 239 deltas 182 cobwebs 63 craters 93 demonstrative 195 cock-gaffs 94 creakily 236 den-hole 152 coconut 82 creek's 86 dens 86 coffecan 182 crestfallen 122 depicted 208 coffeecan 156, 236 cresting 55, 91 deposited 94 cohesiveness 234 crestline 202 deprecatory 193 cold-glinting 77 crewelwork 87 desperate-looking 80 cold-looking 56 cricked 116 desperately 25, 174 combatants 32, 122 critter 151 detectable 39 combine 26 crock 56 detention 218 combustions 17 croker 70 devious 208 comfortably 219 cross-hatching 151 devoted 12 commemorating 81 crosscut 3 dew-laden 55 commiseratingly 162 crowstepped 81 dewed 100 complacent 93, 151 cruising 8 diamonded 93 compounding 237 crumpling 48 digger 8 compromise 13 crustaceans 88 disability 72 conaster 30 crusting 126 disabled 72 conaster's 30 crystal's 83 disagreement 210 concavity 139 crystalline 157 discernible 138 concerted 25 crystals 136 discountenanced 36 cone-shaped 206 culvert-set 143 disinterest 202 confectionary 138 cupcakes 96 dislike 30 confederate 145 cupolas 201 dispensing 122, 136 congestion 24 curdcolored 139 distant-sounding 182 conjure 245 curious[-]looking 111 distended 177 constable's 236 curtain-fold 61 dittybag 236 constipation 11 curvet 48 diurnal 244 continuation 163 cusped 179 doc's 43 continuously 31 cussing 104, 209 dog-eared 207 dolphin 11 endeavor 73 fer 9-10, 18, 151, 191 dominated 121 engagements 99 fer's 10 dominion 16 epileptic 22 ferret 217 doomlike 181 equidistant 54 ferruling 31 dorme 167 equipoise 13 fertile 173 double-barred 61 eras 223 festered 180 dowels 62, 222 erotic 139 filmily 191 down[-]sifting 132 erupt 16, 200 filtered 99, 173 downhill 34, 137 esotery 83 fingernails 58 downlidded 36 establishing 79 firelit 150 downpointed 167 estimate 220 first-class 206 downthrust 66 evil-looking 17, 136, 150 fishcrow 173 drafts 96 evocative 181 fitful 91 drag-marks 41 exaust 35 flagstem 81 drape 61 excape 204 flailings 40 drill[-]colth 80 excitedly 120 flamepoints 62 drooping 80, 110 exercising 92 flappped 37 druidical 120 exhaling 36 flat-looking 65 duodenum 96 exod 245 flatering 35 duplication 42 expedient 110 flecks 178 durned 42 expelled 33 fleshless 54 dusk-dark 149, 216 experimentally 29 fleshly 61 dustspurs 43 experts 24 flickery 36 dwarflike 132 explaining 136 flinched 19, 21 dwells 246 explosions 121 flitter 147 dynamics 236 explosive 99 flitting 123 dynamited 140 extensions 23 floatbowl 184 ea 85 extracted 97, 187 floorboarded 98 eardrums 146 exuded 78 floorward 236 earlobes 106 eye-level 116 floridy 34 eccentricities 13 eying 8, 25, 69, 73, 115, 134 flounder 124 eddies 178 face-upward 40 flower-print 110 ef 23-24, 95, 144 facings 81 flutings 48 effluvium 83 fancied 90 flux 222 eight-gauge 94 fanfall 32 flypaper 182 eighty-four 220 fantastic 81, 133, 178 fool'd 148 elbow-deep 195 fantastically 240 foot-rail 13 electricblue 163 fascination 23, 39 footgear 82 eller 26, 28, 77-78, 116-117, 142, fat'n 142 foothold 178 180-182, 217, 228, 235 fatigues 96 footworn 232 eller's 211 fatly 89 forewarned 177 elongation 75 favorites 29 forfeits 210 elum's 3 feathery 44, 133, 239 forged 138 elvish-looking 72 fecundity 11 forgit 67 emanating 122 feets 162 formation 223 emblazoned 200 feigned 11 forsake 66 emblematic 201 fellies 244 fortress 223 emblems 96 fence-corner 177, 229 fragment 3 emphasized 17 fence-wire 97 freezin 155 encircled 14 fenner 23, 180 fresh-looking 28 encysted 48 fens 173 friendly-looking 163 fringing 171 gongs 181 heelclack 210 frisking 135 good-sized 71 hellebore 59 frog-notes 80 gothically 59 helt 146 fronts 16, 141 govmint 72 hen'son 17 frown 111 graced 46, 173 hereby 85 frugally 23 graceless 189 hesitate 36, 97 full-growed 148 graft 13 hex-cane 199 fulminations 172 gramarye 184 hex-carvings 46 funneling 12 grandson 145 heyo 133, 145 fur's 206 grapplehookin 228 hickories 11, 88, 177 furling 80 grasping 172 hierophant 148 furrowing 135 gray-white 234 higgling 82 further'n 153 great[-]grandaddy 136 high-pitched 82 gabble 72 grindstone 112 high-shored 201 gainesville 36 grotesques 189 high-shouldered 65, 85 galluses 112 growlin 146 highbinders 14 garnished 83 gruffly 173 highbounders 14 garntee 199 guidons 80 higher'n 34, 149 gases 41, 79 gutturally 161 highlegged 31 gated 224 habituation 203 hind-end 146 gen'ly 134 haggard-looking 241 hindclaws 174 generating 48 hail-shattered 176 hinge 112 genial 98 hair-worn 193 hiram 145 geometrically 90 half-burned 47 hoary 86, 201, 226 gesticulant 223 half-circle 82 hoary-faced 135 geysers 171 half-darkness 90 hobie 23, 25, 96, 144, 226 ghostgray 104 half-familiar 243 hobie's 95 gibbeted 82 half-run 98 hobies 96 giddily 182 half-shod 244 hod 115 gif 116-117, 213 half-smile 195 hog-kettle 56 gifford 112-114, 116-117, 160, 163, half-step 102 hogjowls 210 167, 185, 207, 210-214, 235-236, 240 half-ton 164 hoglots 10 gifford's 207, 214, 236 hallucinated 245 holes-in-the-wall 82 giffords 212 hand-squared 62 hollow-eyed 12, 32 giggle 68 hand-stitched 92 hollowed 143, 234 gimlet 173 handbrake 75, 183 hollowing 79 glassless 187, 243 handout 73 homey 35, 193 glassrim 22 handsign 181 homing 244 glassware 150 handtools 83 hooch 164 glean 173 handwriting 85 hooktoothed 82 glittering 137 hant 155 hoot-owl 148 glob-like 89 happenstantial 11 hootnanny 221 gloop 163 harassed 20 hopefully 75, 224 gluey 167 hard-looking 37 hoppin 222 gluily 29 hard-pressed 29, 175 horrific 98 goat-hide 14 harridans 173 horseshoe 177 goat-horn 46 hawkbill 207 horsetails 187 goatskull 239 headaches 164 hot-toe-mitty 105 gobbled 239 headliner 101 hound-calls 72 godfearin 66 headway 38 house-high 72 goldenseal 197 hedgerow 246 hover 16 huddling 99 inn-goers 12 kneeboots 86, 108 hues 109 innumerable 67 knobby-kneed 52 huffaker 196-199, 201 inquiringly 79 knowledgeable 12 huge-eyed 52 inquisitive 92 knox 145, 218 humane 116, 240 inquisitively 200 labyrinths 217 humility 193 inquisitiveness 175 lace-tatter 176 hummock 119, 175 insecticide 52 laconical 209 humph 236 insistent 121 lamely 89 hunderd 149 installation 89, 96 lamenting 46 hunerd 220 instinctively 242 lamming 98 hya 204 intensely 19 lampglow 94, 150 hysteria 45 interment 63 land-shapes 91 icefog 136, 163 interminably 80 land's 189 ikon 36, 93 intern 230 lanterneyed 31 ill-assembled 115 intershuffled 219 lashing 177 ill-kept 164 intervals 120 late[-]returning 217 ill-proportioned 207 invaded 115, 173 lazy 134 ill-shapen 29 inventing 9 leaching 57 illumining 150 inviolate 222 leaf-pool 184 illustrated 208 invisibly 137 leaf-scuttle 44 illustration 208 irony 41 leafless 29, 172 im 123 jackolanterns 48 leafwater 201 imaginations 139 jan 85 leaky-assed 211 immediate 34 jangle 181 leanhipped 104 impecunious 218 jays 54, 65 leant 21 inarticulate 102 jean-leg 107 leastwise 153 inaudible 167 jedge 240 leech 71 incalculable 68 jeffo 167 leg-weary 157 inched 38 jerrybuilt 11 legended 81 inchoate 25, 222 jest 9-10, 14, 18, 23, 27, 42-43, 69-70, legwater 113-114, 116-117, 160, 236- inclines 182 103, 105-106, 108-109, 113-114, 119, 238, 240 incoherently 82 126, 134-136, 143-144, 147-150, 152- lemme 125 incongruous 16 155, 157, 160, 191-196, 204, 212- lickin 135 inconsequence 114 214, 220-221, 225-226, 229, 231, 235 licoriced 115 increase 11 jimenez 162 lifelessly 175 incredibility 199 jimenez's 162 light-shivered 89 incredulity 21, 148 jog-trot 120 lightbox 245 incredulous 213, 241 joggling 183 lightning[-]wrecked 188 increment 222 johnny's 135 limbless-looking 137 indefinable 240 jowled 105 lime-silver 57 indescribable 13 june's 18 limecolored 89 indistinct 73, 188 keenly 201 liniment 17 indistinguishable 83 keer 164, 180, 192-193, 203 linkages 184 indomitable 202 kennel 204 lion's 166 inescapable 35 kept-grass 66 lionheaded 217 inexhaustible 98 kerchiefed 115 lisle 29 inexorable 75 kestrel 87 lisping 68 inextricably 245 kettles 72 lizard's 115 infernal 11, 142 keyjangle 210 loaned 23 inflaming 132 killy 87 loant 165, 207, 212 inkstands 79 kits 207 lockin 20 locomotor 33 mewlin 152 murrhined 48 long-ago 63 mewlings 112 muscadine 11 lop-ass-sided 18 microcataclysm 11 musical 65 lord'll 66 mightn't 233 muskrats 86 lovejoys 161 milfoil 59 muskydine 150 lubricated 29 milk-blue 202 musty-sweet 20 luckless 63 milkcase 28, 236 muzzleblast 242 ludicrously 80 milkcases 13, 114 muzzleloader 153 lulled 183 milkweeds 176 mysteriously 24, 151 lustrous 32 millends 61 myth 246 luxuriously 36 millrace 112 mythical 95, 189 macabre 123 minners 70 nailless 28, 111 machine-oil 83 minnesota 12 nastiest-lookin 180 mackinaw 99, 106, 110, 125 miscalculated 37 near-darkness 172 mad-scared 154 mischievous 151 near-senseless 203 madly 12 miserably 162 near-sounding 20 mail-ordered 12 mislocated 177 neck[-]cords 61 mailboxes 12 misunderstood 34 neck[-]flesh 38 mainly 156 mizzle 173 needled 21, 30 malefactor 66 mizzling 246 negated 20 malodorous 30, 79 moats 82 nehi 200 mangrove 161 mocking 139 nestled 17 many's 147 mockingbirds 57 newness 62 marble-dust 158 moiling 52 nicest 21, 163 marchers' 80 molded 38 nightfurled 199 mario 162 moldery 45 nightwraith 103 marion 11-12, 14, 18, 20, 28, 96, 98, momentary 91, 99 nineteen-thirteen 220 105-108, 110-111, 122, 163, 168, monk's 31 nob 91 179, 208, 226 monuments 80 noble 223 maryville 23, 33-35, 62, 197 moonpie 198 noontimes 29 mast 172 moonpies 96 notecase 217 masted 189 moonwash 93 notified 218 matchflare 91 mosquito 238 novae 244 matchheads 153 mountain'll 221 numbing 143 materialize 58 mountain's 52, 200 obediently 164 materializing 242 mourned 91 obliterated 12 mccall's 173 mournful 175 obscenelooking 134 mccary 165 mowers 223, 225, 231 occasionally 115 mead's 29, 193 mucously 17 occupying 114 meaner'n 144 mud-choked 174 off-counterpoint 80 meanest 193 mud-dobber 62 off-wheel 100 measureless 89 mud-slavered 178 offhand 196 meditated 36 mudbanks 98 official 79, 96, 98, 238 medusas 195 mudclods 138 oiltuns 29 mellungeons 12 muds[-]plattered 108 old-fashioned 207 mendicant-voiced 184 muffler 42 old-timer 204 merged 245 mule-slippers 174 older'n 145, 152 mesmerized 39 mule[-]hooves 244 olive-painted 96 mesozoic 173 multicolored 81 oliver's 114 metal-gray 56 munching 9 onlooker 24 meteors 20 munroe 151 oof 209 opacity 177 pinwheeling 57 provider 73 ornery 222 pipesmoke 122 providin 220 othern's 85 pirouetting 161 puffballs 200 out[-]riders 135 pistons 18 pulliam 133, 142, 145, 180, 227 outgoing 10 pitchblende 90 pulliam's 145 overborne 51 pitiful[-]lookin 197 pulse-drum 158 overflowed 57 pla 19 punctured 38 overheats 20 placidly 195 pungent 157 overreaching 217 plankings 57 pupiled 174 owlhead 94 plankton 54 puppy 112 owlishly 40 platmium 72 purl 86 ownby 20-21, 185, 187, 202-203, 218- platymum 237 purling 190 221, 235 pleistocene 46 purlins 12 ownby's 172, 202, 221 plopping 133 purportedly 13 owning 154 plowshare 217 purposeful 142 oxidation 207 plummeted 178 pushed-in 112 painter 147-149, 151-152, 157, 190 pneumony 106 puzzleder'n 148 painters 147-150, 157 pocketbooks 26 quadratic 244 palm-downward 116 pockety 35 quadrupeds 63 palpitant 77 polecat 146 quarryhole 189 panicky 101, 178 poll 155 quarter-darkness 102 paper-gray 55 pompean 81 quarter-moon 66 paper-thin 224 pooched 147 quarter[-]angle 84 parabola 123 popgun 146 quaver 82 parabolas 244 poplars 11 questing 173, 223 paroxysms 45 poplin 104 quiff 172 parthenogenesis 155 pork-ribs 174 racehorse 16 patrolman 209 pornographic 83 rackety 24 pattered 182 posthole 8 rafter 85 peavines 10 postwood 157 raggedy-assed 43 pebbly 162 potions 72 rainfall 184 peening 163 praise 26 rainless 176 pendulously 105 pre-storic 140 rakish 61 pennoned 246 precariousness 13 ranging 218 pennyroyal 29 preciate 10, 35 rankly 63 perceived 101 precipitately 182 rather'n 194 perching 23 precipitously 15 rational 33 perpendicular 242 precluded 29 rattner 10, 15, 22-23, 26-27, 61, 174, perpetration 81 predicting 17 235, 244 persevering 73 prelate 115 rattner's 174 pert 210 preliterate 95 re-echoing 46 petal-burst 201 presentiment 33, 158 re-entered 138 petree 30 previous 209 re-hung 180 pharaoh 173 primordial 11 rearranging 8 pheasants 200 proceeded 218 reassured 199 phenomenon 48 process 95 rebent 208 pilin 147 proclaiming 81 rebounding 139 pillowed 132 prodigal 23 recession 11 pine[-]shadows 88 producing 131 recklessly 100 ping 139 prolificness 12 recoined 201 pinked 79 pronouncement 115 reconciled 41 reconsummated 67 rubies 174 shelved 244 recumbent 189 ruffle 41 shin 15, 71 reddens 172 rugs 111 shipping 30 redfaced 80 ruminated 93 shipping-room 30 reefer 23 rumoring 138 sho 3 refastened 98 runner's 16 sholy 3 regimental 201 runningboard 40-41, 44, 78, 203 shortening 231 regiments 200 rustcolored 91 shortlegged 135 reiteration 137 sabbatical 16 shotguns 142 remarking 75, 201 sabers 26 should've 43 reminding 39 saddle-bowed 192 shouldn't 34 remonstrances 182 saddle-roofed 144 shrew 217 repainted 114 sahary 16 shrink 214 repassing 162, 182 satyric 147 shriveling 40 repocketing 36 saunders' 68, 72, 86, 173 shuckin 109 reproductions 90 savagely 175 sickly-sweet 101 resistin 203 scalpel 207 side-hole 146 resolutely 45 scaly-skinned 92 sidehill 21, 152 resorting 25 scarlike 14 sidekick 236 resplendent 14 scatttered 199 sidemeat 197 restless-looking 16 schist 199 sidepath 55 restlessly 65 scintillant 163 sidestepping 200 restoring 95 scootin 146 siftin 237 restroom 9 scotch 83 significations 59 resumed 24 scrabble-marks 86 silvergray 174 resupplying 111 scratchings 132 simulated 109 retching 45 screech 149 single-barrel 153 retire 181 screechin 148 singlemindedness 17 reverent 90 scrolled 61 singletree 21 revving 99, 161 scruff 152 six-pointed 195 ribboning 178 searchlight 162 sixes 142 ricocheted 120 sech 152, 207, 228, 235 sixty-five 220 rifle-balls 207 seclusion 195 skate 136 ring-plate 96, 98 secont 153 skeered 123, 148 rioted 17 sedulously 96 skinfolds 147 riposted 187 sef 26, 136, 147 skirling 17 ripples 48 seine 68, 70, 72 skirmishing 79 ritualistic 61 seining 70 skitting 112 river-bridge 78 semi-elliptic 113 skulking 185 roadbank 31 senses 35 skunk 135, 139, 142-143, 145 rock-battered 200 setters 223 slacken 57 rocketed 92, 205, 237 settler's 55 slategray 198 rollings 101 severe 63 slatterns 29 romines 135-137, 139-142, 235 shade-dappled 52 sledge's 190 rondelays 46 shaky 71 sleekly 16 roof-shakes 57 shard 46 sleepy-eyed 37 roofshakes 243 she-painter 152, 157 slewing 179 rooftree 47 shellpink 101 slimebrown 172 rooted 172 shellrim 46 slimegreen 224 rotund 120 shelly 201 slipper 69 rough-cut 62 sheltering 90, 184 slishing 35 slithering 166 splits 11 summons 184 slithery 8 spodomantic 240 sun-washed 202 slopped 153 sporran 202 sunburn 14 slow-rising 193 spotty 175 sunward 65 slowness 36 spraddle-legged 174 suppurant 45, 182 sluices 182 spray-pit 52-53, 89 surprised-like 148 sluicing 65, 74, 100, 109 sprite 172 surreptitious 89 slurp 122 spurt 36 suspender 110 smarter'n 227 squadron 9 suspendered 160 smelly 173 squealt 153 swaggering 241 smoke-white 122 squeamish 79 swamped 175, 179 smokeblue 61, 224 squeamishly 172 swamping 161 smokies 55 squirming 124 sware 160 smooth-worn 51 squishing 72, 103, 106 sweat-crinkled 78 smoothness 84 stake-point 155 sweetmold 29 snarls 121 starred 238 sweetsour 66 sneaking 163, 194 stealthly 97 swellings 210 snicker 163 steely 86 swipes 147 snow-dusted 135 steep-pitched 178 swooping 25, 175 snow-wetted 142 steeped 72 sylder 11-12, 14, 16-22, 28, 31-44, snugly 203 stemmed 87 74-75, 96-98, 108, 110, 122-127, 136, soar 89 stern-boards 68 159-160, 163-166, 179-183, 207-214, soared 134 stickrimmed 46 226, 232 soft-hissing 217 stiefel's 66 sylder's 19, 22, 33-34, 36, 38-39, 183, solidarity 13 stifling 209 208, 210 solidity 7 still-fishing 67 t'wards 9, 33, 135, 151, 192-193, 197 somnambulant 38 stilts 48 taciturn 201 somnolence 80 stit 134, 136, 141, 148-149, 151, 154, talker 34 soon's 42 221-222, 228 tall-hatted 80 sorrowful 183 stonecolored 200 talons 143 soupbone 23 stoplights 164 tangy 72 southbound 23 storekeep 8 tannic 90 spance 224 storekeeper's 196 taping 193 spang 186 stormed 188 tapless 132 sparrowhawk 77 straddle-legged 178 tax-kept 210 spastically 23 straight-armed 35 taxed 210 spatter 58, 139 straining 80, 120, 208, 237 teargas 188 spavined 243 strains 80 temporarily 17 specials 29 strawcolored 190 tenderloin 111 spect 231 streak 29 tenoned 201 sped 85, 246 streaky 239 testifyin 160 speechless 39 streamers 80 testifying 177 spiderstick 55 streetcars 81 texture 201 spiderwebbing 100 streets's 18 that-there'd 191 spiel 38 striated 82 thatches 173 spindle 116 strides 241 thawing 106 spiraling 47 strung-out 119 thick-coated 234 spired 59 studiously 151 thickness 167 spirited 211 subflooring 116 thigh-deep 123 splatted 57 suffusion 38 thing'n 115 splint 3 summary 22 things'r 42 thinness 116 truculently 134 unseeing 182 third'n 152 tuba 80 unshakable 33 thirteenth 220 tubas 80 unsheathing 38 thirty-cent 29 tuckaleechee 59 unsifted 240 thirty-dollar 12 turkey-walked 32 unspinning 244 thistles 206 turnt 152, 157 unstrap 219 thoop 162 twicet 148, 197 unstuck 167 thows 213 two-by-fours 23 unswallowed 116 thrashings 26 two-by-six 25 unswole 211 three-fourths 41 ubiquitous 200 untangle 25 thrice 14 uh-huh 3 untaxed 210 throatcords 22 ulcer 171 untrimmed 166 throatily 151 unbelieving 217 unvisited 223 thrusts 233 unbent 199 urgently 52 thunderously 25, 173 unblinking 40, 134 usherance 210 tidelands 173 unbolted 96 utopia 29 tightening 67 unburdened 138 v-eight 9 tinfoil 239 unburried 91 v's 72 tinkling 137 unchurched 197 valkyrie 172 tiptoes 178 unclothed 25 vanquish 16 tipton's 20, 133, 163, 174 uncomprehending 39 vanquished 26 tired-looking 83 unconcern 134 vegetation 10 tiretreads 81 uncongealing 39 vehement 34 titters 238 unconsciousness 44 veiling 131 toadstools 11 uncovering 138 velvety 207 toe-standing 80 uncurled 195 venomously 183 toenail 87, 174 uncurling 176, 201 vermiculated 200 toenails 58 uncushioned 42 vermin 187 tol 17 under-region 142 vespertine 120 tonnage 24 under-wings 188 vestibules 82 tonsiled 139 undersigned 85 vibrations 99 topping 164 undetermined 13 victor 85 topton 42 undulant 178, 217 violet-blue 62 torturous 38 undulated 57 viperously 139 tougue 17 undulations 25 viscosity 116 townward-walking 16 unencumbered 12 visibility 90 towtruck 117 ungainly 7 visor 21 tract 26 ungiving 77, 134 vistige 246 trafficking 82 ungraceful 25 vole 217 trail-call 44, 120 unharmed 93 vulturous 115 trainfare 26 unhurried 68 vulva 139 transformer 141 unidentifiable 82 wadn't 18, 30, 114, 147-149, 151-153, translucence 150 unleaning 236 156-157, 159, 204, 211, 214, 222, treed 46, 119, 194 unlock 198 225, 233, 236, 240 treedog 112 unmistakable 37 wafers 131 tremble 67 unneighborly 55 waged 26 trembly 57 unofficial 98 waist-deep 184 trenches 201 unprotesting 32 wale 41 trichinella-ridden 82 unreasonable 244 walkin-around 152 troglodytes 150 unrelieved 224 walland 194 trucking 190 unresisting 108 wallers 27 waltzed 12 whooeee 22 wampus 59-60, 148 whorl 217 warlocks 66 whup 193 warmin 116, 225 wide-flung 233 warn's 150, 207 wielded 12 warshtub 160 wiggled 103, 187 waspnest 55 wiggling 99 water-creature 100 wildlife 17 water-sound 91 willowy 74 water-sounds 99 wind-riffles 173 water-voiced 55 winderscreen 236 water-wrought 68 window-glass 100, 132, 186 waterballs 171 windpipe 40 waterbeads 184 windwing 36 waterbird 243 wingblades 174 waterbuckets 56 wingset 244 waterdark 108 winkle 62, 171 waterless 88 winnowed 200 wavering 80 wisped 176 wearying 122 wisping 131 weather-checks 192 woggled 17 weather-curled 200 wonderingly 167 weaved 57, 150 wood-beetles 216 weed-deep 173 wood-dust 63, 246 weed-stems 217 woodhen 195 weftwork 201 woodrot 173 welcoming 19 woodworms 63 well-wishers 23 wooly 153 well[-]wished 85 worm-riddled 234 wesley 68, 105, 107, 115, 133, 136, wracked 178 140-141, 146, 183 wraithlike 14 wesley's 105 wretha 29 wetness 37, 71 x's 79 what-all 208 yearwood 245 wheelruts 172, 242 yellowgray 22 wheening 60, 161 yellowhammer 188 where-all 140, 192, 196 yellowly 66 which'd 140 yesm 64, 68, 79, 109, 232 whimper 53 yessa 3 whip-end 14 yins 9, 192, 219 whirlpool 15 you-all 18, 135, 150, 192-193, 232 whirred 161 you's 204 whirring 217 youngern's 106 whish 55 yuletide 138 whiskey-making 95 zinc-colored 55 white-cap 140 zip-zip 120 white-spotted 82 white[-]stubbled 105 whitney 154 who-all 235 whooee 32