Chapter 10 City of Bones E (180-188) Flashcards
Clary felt her mouth _____ a smile
twitch into
After a moment she followed, _____ \jace’s outstretched hand _____ as she went
knocking aside
She looked at the table, at the long row of silent figures _____ in their heavy robes
muffled
She ____ her teeth. She wanted to resist them, wanted to ______ those intrusive voices out of her head
gritted; pry
The ____ inside her mind ceased as suddenly as a record that had stopped spinning
din
something large and white loomed up on her left side like an iceberg off the _____ of the Titanic
bow
Her mother was hurrying her down a ______ street btween piles of _____and dirty snow
night-black; heaped
There are many levels to the Silent City, interjected Jeremiah. And not all the dead are buried here. There is another __________ in Idris
assuary
They inclined their heads toward Jace, a gesture of silent acknowledgement, before they ________ among the pillars and were gone
filed away
Her mind seemed to _________ on itself, like a rubber band, and she _____ soundlessly into a whirlwind of images cast against the insides of her closed eylids
snap in; reeled
He’s taken one of the green burning torches out of its ______ and was holding it at tey level. It ____ a pale green ____ ___ his skin
bracket; lent; cast to
Jace thrust the torch ahead of him, ______ the walls with shadows
streaking
The Brother who at in the center seat _____ his thin white fingers beneath his chin
templed
This was nothing more than the _____ of a past crime
excavation
As the three of them passed through the first arch, something large and white loomed up on her left side like an iceberg ____ the bow of the Titanic
the bow
In _____ they raised their hands and pushed their cowls back, _______ their scarred faces and the ____ of their empty eyes
unison; baring; pits
The silent word ____ in the darkness between them
hung
Though she had seen Brother Jeremiah’s uncovered face already, Clary’s stomach ______
knotted
Seated at the table was a row of Silent Brothers, each wrapped and _____ in the same parchment-colored robes as Jeremiah
cowled
No need to ________________, Brother Jeremiah, he drawled. Lead on. We’ll be right behind you
stand on ceremony
At the foot of the stairs was another tunnel, which widened out at the end into a square _______ , each corner of which was marked by a ____ of carved bones
pavilion; spire
All your dead? she said, half-wanting to ask him if his father was buried here, but he had already moved ahead, out of _________
earshot
An empty saquare _____ the earth, a plain coffin lowered into it
cut into
It’s a _______, said \jace, directing a ______ of torch light at it. Clary could see that a rune was carved in too the door, which was sealed shut with _________________. A tomb. We bury our dead here
mausoleum, flash; bolts of iron
The stairs ended in a _________; ahead of them stretched a tunnel, long and black, _____ with the curling roots of trees
shallow landing; ridged
Just in front of the table was a larger square, made of white marble and _____ with a parabolic design of silver stars.
embossed
but all were demanding, insistent, _____ the fragile barriers around her mind
pushing at
Remembering the stinging sensation when the stele had touched her wrist, she __________________, but all she felt as the glowing instrument glided lightly over her injury was a faint warm
braced herself
Two words _________ at her, burning into her eyes: Magnus Bane
leaped out
Then it was winter on the black street again and they were hurrying, ______ an umbrella
huddled
In the center of the pavilion was a long table of black _____ ____ in white
basalt veined
Clary saw that the floor was inscribed with the same runes that sometimes decorated Jace’s skin with lines and _____ and swirling patterns
whorls
He was waiting for her at the __________ of the steps
foot
She shrieked as the images fell away and she spun upward, _______ the surface of consciousness like a diver ________________ through a wave
breaking; breaking up
The stairs ended ___ a shallow landing; ahead of them ______ a tunnel
in; stretched
They had reached another staircase leading down into more ___________
twilight
A sudden pain ____ thrugh her right arm
lanced
He ___ his lower lip ______ his teeth and whistled
caught; between
The marble itself was a pure, ashy ivory, hard and polished-looking, ____ in places with narrow strips of ____, jasper, and jade.
inset; onyx
When he relreased her arm, she _______ the stairs after Jace, her heart pounding against her ____
skittered down; ribs
It was a block of white stone, smooth and square, with a sort of door ______ the front
inset into
She could see the _______ of his scarared face beneath the edge of his cowl
bony gleam
Just in front of the table was a larger square, made of white marble and embossed with a ______ design of silver stars
parabolic
