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Words Unique to the Orchard Keeper Copyright © 2007 by Christopher Forbis, Wesley G. Morgan and John Sepich Rev: 4 January 2021 at www.JohnSepich.com Cormac McCarthy's Words Unique to The Orchard Keeper The data set used for this report include all the words in Cormac McCarthy's: The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Stonemason, The Crossing, The Gardener’s Son, The Sunset Limited, Cities of the Plain, No Country For Old Men, The Road, The Counselor. 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
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