Gender Flashcards
Old-fashioned
‘By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me’
Life shaped
‘She wanted her life shaped….this decision much be made by some force’
10 years
‘She’s been talking about it for 10 years’
Ghost
‘Walks through her husband as if he’s a ghost’
Wife’s man
‘He was his wife’s man’
Run around
‘They oughtn’t let her run around the country’
Avoided
‘Instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men’
Cadet
‘An erect carriage….like a young man’
Hard
‘Demands of her hard, jaunty body’
Code
‘Felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible’
Subterfuges
‘She had begun dealing with subterfuges’
Smouldering
‘As if the nerves of her body were constantly smouldering’
Thickish
‘Thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light’
Sensuously
‘Carries her flesh sensuously’
Breast
‘Her left breast was swinging loose’
Body
‘Enormous power of that body - he seems to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing’
Took
‘He too what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously - eventually he took Daisy’