A Farewell To Arms: Chapters 33–41

by Ernest Hemingway
Caught up in the brutality of World War I, an American ambulance driver on the Italian front falls in love with an English nurse.

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  1. proprietor
    someone who owns a business
    The proprietor was behind the bar.
  2. civilian
    a nonmilitary citizen
    Would you go out and buy me an outfit of civilian clothes?
  3. scornful
    expressing extreme contempt
    They avoided looking at me and were very scornful of a civilian my age.
  4. luxurious
    rich and superior in quality
    The hotel was very luxurious.
  5. truant
    one who is absent from school without permission
    I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant.
  6. diplomatic
    marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people
    He had been in the diplomatic service of both Austria and Italy and his birthday parties were the great social event of Milan.
  7. troll
    fish with a hook and line drawn through the water
    We went down and got a boat and I rowed while the barman sat in the stern and let out the line with a spinner and a heavy sinker on the end to troll
  8. notch
    a small cut
    I pulled in the line and wrapped it on a stick notched at each end.
  9. discipline
    develop behavior by instruction and practice
    I discipline myself but I find when I am tired that it is so much easier to talk Italian.
  10. stimulant
    a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process
    Then to me, “We will take a little stimulant.”
  11. devout
    deeply religious
    “I had expected to become more devout as I grow older but somehow I haven’t,” he said.
  12. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
    “No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men.
  13. apt
    at risk of or subject to experiencing something
    “They are apt to for a time.”
  14. invigorating
    imparting strength and vitality
    But we did not mind the hardness of the road because we had nails in the soles and heels of our boots and the heel nails bit on the frozen ruts and with nailed boots it was good walking on the road and invigorating.
  15. chateau
    an impressive country house (or castle) in France
    Then along the road we passed an old square-built stone chateau on a ledge on the side of the mountain-side with the terraced fields of vines, each vine tied to a stick to hold it up, the vines dry and brown and the earth ready for the snow and the lake down below flat and gray as steel.
  16. almanac
    an annual publication arranged according to the calendar
    “In the New York World Almanac in the library.”
  17. contented
    satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are
    I’m having a child and that makes me contented not to do anything.
  18. nuisance
    a bothersome annoying person
    It’s an awful nuisance in the bed at night.”
  19. quarrel
    have a disagreement over something
    “I did, but we quarrelled so much it wore itself out.”
  20. torrent
    a violently fast stream of water or other liquid
    The road was a torrent of muddy snow-water.
  21. ungainly
    lacking grace in movement or posture
    “I’m just something very ungainly that you’ve married.”
  22. arcade
    a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side
    I went to a gymnasium in the arcade to box for exercise.
  23. protracted
    relatively long in duration
    “The first labor is usually protracted,” the nurse said.
  24. interval
    a definite length of time marked off by two instants
    “What is the interval now?”
  25. welt
    a raised or strengthened seam
    I do not think I could have watched them cut, but I watched the wound closed into a high welted ridge with quick skillful-looking stitches like a cobbler's, and was glad.
  26. incision
    the cutting of or into body tissues or organs
    The incision looked very long."
  27. pucker
    gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    “He looks like a skinned rabbit with a puckered-up old-man’s face.”
  28. suppose
    expect or believe
    They supposed he would come around and start breathing probably.
  29. swarm
    move in large numbers
    As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the centre where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end.
  30. messiah
    any expected deliverer
    I remember thinking at the time that it was the end of the world and a splendid chance to be a messiah and lift the log off the fire and throw it out where the ants could get off onto the ground.
Created on Tue Aug 13 12:43:06 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Aug 08 16:48:25 EDT 2018)

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