Chapter 10 City of Bones D (172-180) Flashcards
then the carriage lurched upward as the horses sprang lightly to the top of the cab. She _______________
choked off a gasp
The carriage, rather than _____________ the ground, _________ the horses
dragging along; sailed behind
The carraige, rather than dragging aalong the ground, sailed up behind the horses, _____ lightly and soundlessly up and over the cab’s roof and down the other side
rolling
Clary glanced backward as the carriage hit the pavement again _____________________–the cab driver was smoking and staring ahead, utterly oblivious
with a jolt
The smile turned less ____
dry
I suppose you don’t have much time for enjoying music, _________________
in your line of work
From this ______ point she could see the upper floors of the old apartment buildings that ____________, elaborately carved with ______________ and ornamental ___________
vantage; line the avenue; gargoyles; cornices
He sounds strict, your fataher.
Not at all. He _____ me
indulged
Clary thought as the carriage _________________ the pavement
thunked back kdown to the pavement
The ring she had noticed earlier ______ on his finger
flashed
They were rolling through Astor Place now, narrowly dodging a purple \new York University ______ as it cut through traffic
tram
Clary saw a girl about her own age with a smoothly shaved bald head leaning against a brown-skinned boy with _________________, his face adorned with a dozen piercings
dreadlocks
They ____ a place to ashes and when it’s dead, they move on to the next one
drain
as if he meant to indicate everything in the city from the skyscrapers uptown to the _____ of traffic on Houston Street–is the Nephilim
clog
But only demons can travel between them. Because they’re mostly ________________
noncorporeal
Nothing from EArth can pass through the _______________ between the worlds
wardings
She felt the cool _____ of his ring like a silver of ice against her sweaty skin
impress
Clary pulled away from him, her face _____ in hte darkness, and turned to look out the window
burning
They wree rolling toward a heavy ______ gate, _____ with dark vines
wrought iron; trellised
We are here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the ______________
jounce of cobblestones
His arm was lightly muscled and ______ gold hairs fine as ______
downed with; pollen
The carriage had ____________________ on a wide square of green grass surroinded by mossy marble walls
drawn to a stop
The carriage had drawn to a stop on a wide square of green grass surrounded by __________ marble walls
mossy
He jumped down from the carriag.e Clray _____ to the edge of her seat; ____ her legs
slid; dangling
It w as a __________ the cobblestones. She jumped. The impact _____ her feet, but she didn’t fall
a long drop to; stung
Brother Jeremiah was descending from his _____ behind the horses in a ______________________. He cast no shadow on the ________ grass
silent fall of robes; sun-baked grass
The grass was dry and ______ underfoot, the marble walls to either side smooth and ______
crackling; pearly
It took Clary a moment to realize that they were ____________
grave markers
A chill _____ her spine Where were the bodies? In the walls, buried ______ as if they’d been ________ alive
scraped up; upright; walled in
When she collided with something unmistakably alive, she _____ out loud; it was Jace. Don’t ______ like that. You’ll wake the dead
yelped; screech
a statue just slightly taller than he was, its base overgrown with _____
moss
There was a date _____ on the base, 1234
inscribed
with the tip he ____ the pattern of a rune on the statue’s base
traced
The mouth of the stone angel suddenlly ____ wide in a silent scream; and a _____ black hole opened in the grassy _______ at Jeremiah’s feet
gaped; yawning; grassy turf
Slowly Clary approached the dge of it and peered inside. ____________________ led down into the hole
a set of granite steps
A set of granite steps ________ the hole
led down into
—- were _____ the steps at intervals, ______ hot green and icy blue
torches; set along; flaring
