George Eliot

Blank

The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness.

I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.

Blow

I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does.

Broken

The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken.

Citizen

That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs.

Close

The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very close thing -- not a faint hearsay.

Coach

Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach.

I coached him before he got his scholarship.

Daisied

The grass all deep and daisied.

Denationalize

An expatriated, denationalized race.

Egoistic

Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable.

Electrify

Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.

Escapement

An escapement for youthful high spirits.

Exhibitioner

A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital.

Fad

It is your favorite fad to draw plans.

Fetichistic

A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread.

Foreignness

A foreignness of complexion.

Greenth

The greenth of summer.

Incommunicative

His usual incommunicativeness.

Insurgence

A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome.

Intoxicate

Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells.

makeshift

I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift.

Mount

She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount.

Mushy

She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender.

Mutual

A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters.

One

Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can.

Ossianic

The compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic.

Out-of-door

Amongst out-of-door delights.

Paradisiac

The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty.

Part

His precious bag, which he would by no means part from.

Petrify

A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.

Philander

You can't go philandering after her again.

Potluck

A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on.

Rick

Golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows.

Sacrifice

The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum . . . for the sake of . . . making this boy his heir.

Seat

She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.

Staccato

Staccato and peremptory [literary criticism].

Steal

The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets in alms.

Swathe

The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes.

Toupee

Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.

Undercurrent

All the while there was a busy undercurrent in her.

Veto

This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

Vitiation

The vitiation that breeds evil acts.

Wake

He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.

Withy

The stream is brimful now, and lies high in this little withy plantation.

Yellowing

Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given.