Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 4

WOMAN. [A little reluctantly.] Well...sometimes I go to bed late at night.

I’m guilty of insomnia. Now what’s the penalty for insomnia?

CHARLIE. You sound real anxious to have that happen, Steve. I think we better keep our eye on you too!

Let’s pick out every idiosyncrasy of every man, woman, and child on the street.

How come you’re so dense all of a sudden?

The group stands there, fearful, apprehensive, mothers clutching children, men standing in front of wives.

Miss Saunders is as quiet as a tiger sneaking up on its supper.

I guess there ain’t no accounting for what folks see in their own mirrors.

We just listen to the clock tick. Shuffle our papers.

Then she explains how she was born with her face like that. How when she was little her parents had the preacher pray over it, the old folks work their roots on it, and her grandmother use some concoction to change the color of that blotch on her cheek so it matched the rest of her skin.

Then she explains how she was born with her face like that. How when she was little her parents had the preacher pray over it, the old folks work their roots on it, and her grandmother use some concoction to change the color of that blotch on her cheek so it matched the rest of her skin.