March 2020 Word List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “emerald”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

1. Apple ~ “My dear fellow, he will guard it as the apple of his eye.”  [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]

2. Avocado ~

3. Bird ~ And after luncheon they visited the aquarium and the top of the Singer Building and took the subway uptown to spend an hour with the bird of America in their habitats.  [Dear Enemy]

4. Bottle ~ They brought up three rifles, and each man took the lead of a camp of Indians, and passed the afternoon in a bottle-shooting contest, with a prize for the winning camp.  [DE]

5. Bug ~

6. Cactus ~

7. Clothes ~

8. Cucumber ~

9. Dress ~ “The colonel’s renovations are solid work, of excellent quality,” William remarked to me when we were briefly alone before dressing for dinner.  [Enchantress of Numbers]

10. Emerald ~

11. Envy ~

12. Evergreen trees ~

13. Eyes ~ My only eyeball flashes from its pit/ Like a red snake trapped in a sunken snare– /I do not like my eye.  [Broken Hearts]

14. Forest ~ The blessed peace and solitude of our Somerset estate was a welcome remedy for my exhaustion and strain, and after I had enjoyed a good rest, I joined my husband and children in romps through the gardens, long walks along the seashore, and exhilarating horseback rides through the forest.  [EofN]

15. Frog ~ Did it always eat frogs, and had it hurt its other foot?  [DE]

16. Gem ~

17. Glasses ~

18. Grapes ~

19. Grass ~ I inhaled deeply, taking in grass and earth and late-summer blossoms, and I imagined my father here as a young man full of hope and impatience and ambition, breathing in and breathing out, grinning as he envisioned how magnificent the estate he had inherited would be after he restored it to its former glory.  [EofN]

20. Insects ~

21. Ireland ~ “Can’t you get hands from Ireland?”  [North and South]

22. Ivy ~ An open davenport stood in the window opposite the door; in the other there was a stand, with a tall white china vase, from which drooped wreaths of English ivy, pale-green birth, and copper-colored beech-leaves.  [N&S]

23. Jade ~ “The saucy jade!”  [N&S]

24. Jealousy ~ The moon’s abroad– /She is not jealous of my fountain love; /She sheds her gentle light upon our tryst /And decks my love with diamonds of her own!  [BH]

25. Jelly bean ~

26. Kelly ~

27. Kiwi ~

28. Leaf ~ Side by side the two trunks stretched upward to the sky, separate but unified, their branches growing, intertwining, to form a single leafy green canopy.  [EofN]

29. Lettuce ~

30. Lime ~

31. Markers ~

32. Mint ~

33. Money ~ My pittance of pin money could not even begin to pay off my losses, so I borrowed from my mother, claiming that I needed the funds for books and fine gowns for court.  [EofN]

34. Moss ~

35. Nature ~ Jesus’ full human nature means God has said YES! to the whole of His creation.  [Becoming Worldly Saints]

36. Olive ~ I don’t know what our poor doctor would prefer; olive green with a mansard roof appears to be his taste.  [DE]

37. Onion ~

38. Paint ~ They brought the prize with them– an atrocious head of an Indian painted on leather.  [DE]

39. Parrot ~ Tell Jervis to send us some more of those purple pine-trees from Honduras; likewise some green parrots from Guatemala.  [DE]

40. Pea ~

41. Pear ~

42. Pepper ~ Please pepper your letters with stamps, inside and out.  [DE]

43. Shamrock ~

44. Snake ~ *See Eyes

45. Tennis ball ~

46. Trees ~ He was known as “The Wicked Lord,” and “the Devil Byron,” two interesting sobriquets to find on one’s family tree, to say the least.  [EofN]

47. Turtle ~

48. Watermelon ~

49. Woods ~ This was called the Devil’s Wood, planted by the Wicked Lord and strewn with statues of fauns and satyrs.  [EofN]

50. Yarn ~ “Why,” said he, “the Americans are getting their yarns so into the general market, that our only chance is producing them at a lower rate.”  [N&S]

 

 

February 2020 Word List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “group”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

This month I found most of my words from the same book.  Even though the words had to do with auto racing, ironically the books I found most of them in took place pre-automobiles.

1. Accelerate ~

2. Accident ~ I repeated what her friend had said about my looks, but not wanting to seem a tattletale, I said that she had spoken ‘by accident.’  [Enchantress of Numbers]

3. Ambitious

4. Bank ~ He had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1816 and upon the death of his father, a prosperous banker, he had inherited a substantial estate worth one hundred thousand pounds.  [EoN]

5. Brakes/Braking ~

6. Caution ~ “I have no intention of spending the entire season in London,” she had cautioned me before we had left Fordhook.  [EoN]

7. Collision ~ “Thought fights with thought;/ out springs a spark of truth/ From the collision of the sword and shield.”  [North and South]

8. Competition ~ “Then your father proposed a competition, challenging each of the company, himself included, to write a horror story of their own.” [EoN]

9. Crew ~ She considered him the worst of the “Piccadilly crew”, as she called my father’s loyal friends and drinking companions who had led him into insobriety and degradation, undermining his marriage, contributing in no small way to the separation.  [EoN]

10. Crowd ~He ordered an extravagant new carriage fashioned after one belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte, who the year before had escaped exile on the island of Elba and had been welcomed by cheering crowds in Paris only to face defeat three months later at the Battle of Waterloo.  [EoN]

11. Dangerous ~”The imagination is not a dangerous thing, Ada darling– but that is as close as I shall come to speaking ill of your mother to you.” [EoN]

12. Defend ~ The poem was brilliantly wicked, but it was an unwarranted attack on a woman utterly unable to defend herself, and a gentleman simply did not treat a loyal member of his household that way.  [EoN]

13. Develop ~ “She must be brought up with structure and discipline, with rigorous attention to developing her faculties for logic and reason.” [EoN]

14. Distance ~ A dozen or more men and women surrounded our carriage at a respectful distance, noting the coat of arms painted on the door, rising on tiptoe to peer through the windows, drawing back in disappointment when they spied no passengers within.  [EoN]

15. Fans ~

16. Finish ~ If I finished a lesson promptly and well, I might have five extra minutes to play with Puff afterward.  [EoN]

17. Fuel ~ I had not felt so full of energy since before I had the cholera, since before I was married, as if electricity surged through my body, fueling my thoughts, my intuitive leaps, my comprehension.  [EoN]

18. Grid ~

19. Helmet ~

20. Inspection ~ “Did Agnes tell you she is engaged to be married?” my mother had asked me on their first day with us, pausing by my room to inspect me as I dressed for dinner.  [EoN]

21. Lap ~ But I had overestimated the subtlety of my scheme, and after my mother had been gone two days, my grandmother drew me onto her lap, kissed me, and said, “I miss Mrs. Grimes too, and I am certain she misses you, but your mother has decided, and that is that, so you might as well stop terrorizing these poor nurses.”  [EoN]

22. Length ~ “What shall I do with it?” Merle asked, pinching the book between her thumb and forefinger and holding it at arm’s length as if she carried a dead rat.  [EoN]

23. Mechanic ~ My only saving grace was that I excelled in my lessons, especially mathematics and the study of anything mechanical– interests that another, less intellectual, less progressive family would have encouraged in a son but disapproved of in a daughter.  [EoN]

24. Noise ~ I became anxious and timid, jumping at sudden noises and cowering in my room during thunderstorms.  [EoN]

25. Oval ~ Mrs. Somerville had strong, pleasing features in an oval face, her eyes a clear hazel, her lips full with a tint of a smile.  [EoN]

26. Owner ~ So the owner of the ancestral lace became worthy of something more than the languid exertion to be agreeable to a visitor, by which Mrs. Hale’s efforts at conversation would have been otherwise bounded.  [N&S]

27. Pass ~ It was when we were returning to the cathedral proper, passing along the covered walkway from the Lady Chapel to the north aisle of the chancel, that I first became aware of the bold, curious stares of other visitors.  [EoN]

28. Points ~ What had the point of my education been if not to suppress the imagination and enhance the intellect?  [EoN]

29. Position ~ The bird held still once more, the dancer pirouetted and glided back to her starting position, and after a moment the mechanical dance began anew.  [EoN]

30. Pressure ~ I suppose the atmosphere was not conducive to friendship, as we were under such pressure to look our best and impress with our conversation and delight with our accomplishments, all while competing for the elusive prize of a good match.  [EoN]

31. Qualify ~ Obediently I finished my French lesson, and then music, and then geography, and then my kindhearted governess agreed that working out the proportions for my wings qualified as mathematics, so she allowed me to race back to work.  [EoN]

32. Race ~ *See Qualify

33. Repair ~ Our plans lay in ruins, my hopes shattered beyond repair.  [EoN]

34. Safety ~ My mother murmured urgently to the dean’s wife, who quickly ushered us past the onlookers down a side corridor to solitude and safety.  [EoN]

35. Schedule ~ “Mr. Turner, if you please,” she said primly, “may I have a moment to discuss your remittance and your schedule for the rest of the spring?”  [EoN]

36. Speed ~ Puff’s stealth and pouncing velocity must exceed the birds’  takeoff speed, I concluded, unless she had caught them while they were sleeping.  [EoN]

37. Sponsor ~ Guided by palace attendants, we merged into the parade of young ladies in white gowns and proud, watchful sponsors who were shown into a salon to await the announcement of our names.  [EoN]

38. Start ~ Over many millennia and through many fits and starts, it slowly evolved “up to the reptile, up to the mammal.”  [Becoming Worldly Saints]

39. Team ~ Down here we have Cleveland sports teams.  [BWS]

40. Technology ~  “I believe that there is no aspect of our lives which cannot be improved by the uplifting benefits of technology.”  [EoN]

41. Throttle ~

42. Tire ~ “Oh! I hardly know what he is like,” said Margaret, lazily; too tired to tax her powers of description much.  [N&S]

43. Traction ~ But even the ingenious steam locomotive faced the possibility of being surpassed by newer technology when the Samuda brothers introduced the “traction piping” railway based on the principle of atmospheric propulsion, employing a system of vacuums, tubes, pistons and pumps to propel rail carriages along the track at an astonishing twenty-five miles per hour.  [EoN]

44. Vehicle ~ But there the heavy lumbering vehicles seemed various in their purposes and intent; here every van, every waggon and truck, bore cotton, either in the raw shape in bags, or in the woven shape in bales of calico.  [N&S]

45. Victory ~ It was not until much later that I spotted her dancing with Mr. Knight, and although I irrationally regretted ceding victory to my rival, I felt no sorrow over losing the gentleman himself.  [EoN]

46. Wall ~ Her heart did not still its fluttering till she was safe in the drawing-room, with the windows fastened and bolted, and the familiar walls hemming her round, and shutting her in.  [N&S]

47. Windshield ~

48.Winner ~

49. Wreck ~

50. Yellow (flag) ~ The thick yellow November fogs had come on; and the view of the plain in the valley, made by the sweeping bend of the river, was all shut out when Mrs. Hale arrived at her new home.  [N&S]

 

 

 

January 2020 Word List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “group”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

It’s hard to believe I’ve played this game for a year now!  This month I found a great many of the scavenger words, but did not beat my game partner who found nearly all of them.  When comparing notes at the end of the month I had to laugh at how some of the sentences don’t make a whole lot of sense out of context. 😀

1) Birthday ~ “I think Phoebe doesn’t care for the drapes of this life so much as some women do and as this is for her birthday let’s have the flowers, sturdy ones with stiff stems and good head pieces.”  [Andrew the Glad]

2) Cake ~ “Shall I have buttered biscuits or cake for tea?”  [AtG]

3) Celebrate ~ “I will give you two hundred and fifty dollars and you can let it be known that no such celebration ever was as the one his colored friends are going to give in honor of the election of Judge David Kildare– his united colored friends, Jeff, high and low.”  [AtG]

4) Decorate ~ She evidently had only the moment to stay and she took in his decorative schemes with the utmost delight.  [AtG]

5) Drink ~ Finally his music lore yielded a point, “It’s about a girl drinking– only with her eyes you understand– and–”

6) Event ~ “Suppose you put up a little faith on the event– be something of a sporting character and back David to win.”  [AtG]

7) Family ~ “Her mother raised Phoebe by keeping boarders, but failed to raise the mortgage on the family home.”  [AtG]

8) Food ~ “Has he sent any more food?” asked Mrs. Matilda as they all laughed.

9) Fun ~ “I’m tired, anyway, of having fun made of all the sacred things in life.”  [AtG]

10) Games ~ And as he walked slowly across the street and into the Buchanan home, Fate took up the hand of Andrew Sevier and ranged his trumps for a new game.  [AtG]

11) Gather ~ Mrs. Peyton Kendrick was there and the card-tables were deserted as the players, matrons, and maids, gathered around her and discussed excitedly the result of her “ways and means for the reunion” mission to the city council, the judge’s insult, and David Kildare’s reply.  [AtG]

12) Gifts ~ And after the confusion, the distress and joy of the afternoon out in the park when she and her gift had been accepted and acclaimed, there came days full of deep and perfect peace to Caroline Darrah Brown.  [AtG]

13) Glitter ~ She leant back and shut her eyes, and the tears welled forth, and hung glittering for an instant on the shadowing eye-lashes before rolling slowly down her cheeks, and dropping, unheeded, on her dress.  [North and South]

14) Group ~ The start for the Cliffs was to be made from the fork of the River Road, where cars, horses, traps and hampers were to be left with the servants, who by half past nine were already in an excited group around a blazing, dry oak fire, over which two score plump birds were ready to be roasted, attended by the autocratic Tempie.  [AtG]

15) Happy ~ “And she must never know, Major, never,” said David with distress in his happy eyes; “we must see to that.”  [AtG]  …Huh?

16) Home ~ *See Family

17) Kids ~ “I see it now– a lot of magazine stuff jogging the women up about the kids and all– and here Milly is a hero and we– the jolly fun-pokers.”  [AtG]

18) Jokes ~ “Protection at long distance is no joke.”  [AtG]

19) Joy ~ “They are wide-mouthed with joy; but it sliced two days to do it, which I might have spent on the grocery wagon.”  [AtG]

20) Laughter ~ She raised her eyes to his with laughter in their depths.  [AtG]

21) Love ~ “We loved him and let ourselves be laughed into his schemes.”  [AtG]

22) Memories ~ “Major,” said Caroline in a brave voice, “it killed him, the memory of it and not being able to bring me back to her people.”  [AtG]

23) Music ~ “…Major, last night his eyes fairly danced when I plagued Caroline into asking him to whom he wrote that serenade which I have set to music and sing for her so often.”  [AtG]

24) Party ~ An hour later a gay party was gathered around the table in the drawing-room.  [AtG]

25) Photos ~

26) Picnic ~

27) Presents ~ “Isn’t it lovely the way people are making them presents?”  [AtG]

28) Prizes ~

29) Punch ~ He had fought and punched and scuffled in the dawn for his bundle of papers; and he had fought and scuffled for all he had got of life for many years.  [AtG]

30) Quality ~ The determination in her voice matched that in his, and her eyes met his with a glance in which lay a new expression– not the old tolerant affection nor the guarded defense, but one with a quality of comradeship that steadied every nerve in his body.  [AtG]

31) Queen ~ “Why?” and this from Phoebe who had always granted interviews like a queen gives jewels!  [AtG]

32) Quick ~ “No,” answered Kildare quickly, covering his emotion with a laugh as he refused to meet Caroline Darrah’s eyes which wistfully asked the same question that Phoebe had voiced, “he is writing a poem– about– about,” his eyes roamed the room wildly for he had got into it, and his stock of original poem-subjects was very short.  [AtG]

33) Quiet ~ “David,” said the major quietly as he looked into the fire with his shaggy brows bent over his keen eyes, “the combination of a man heart and a woman heart makes a dangerous explosive at the best, but here are things that make it fatal.”  [AtG]

34) Refreshments ~

35) Relatives ~ But maybe a clue into God’s handling of Saul and David and their individual acts of disobedience can be found in their relative willingness and unwillingness to acknowledge their sin as sin.  [Teach Us to Want]

36) Relax ~ But it was not in the nature of David Kildare to be held against the grindstone of serious endeavor too long at a time, and in the midst of the turmoil he proceeded to plot for a brief and exciting relaxation for himself and his strenuous friends, and he chose Saturday for the accomplishment thereof.  [AtG])

37) Restaurant ~

38) Reveal ~ She swallowed the sudden lump and dipped her head, afraid to say what was in her heart and aching for him to reveal what was in his.  [The Doctor’s Lady]

39) Show ~ “It’ll be mostly a show-down of old General Darrah and the three governors I’m thinking.”  [AtG]

40) Shriek ~ Then just at that moment the old genie of the forests, who gloats through the seasons over myriads of wooings that are carried on in the fastnesses of his green woods, sounded a long, low, guttural groan that rose to a blood-curdling shriek, from the branches just above the head of the moon-mad man and girl.  [AtG]

41) Smile ~ “She is the very dearest thing I ever knew,” answered Caroline with a curly smile around her tender mouth.  [AtG]

42) Sparkle ~ The strong winter sun had warmed the flat slab on the south side and, sinking down with a sigh of delight, she embraced her knees and bent over to gaze into the sparkling litttle waterfall that gushed across the foot of the boulder.  [AtG]

43) Streamers ~

44) Surprise ~ Surprise rippled through Priscilla.  [TDL]

45) Tickets ~ Scrawled letters read: “Notice to all persons takin wood from this landin, please leave a ticket payable to the subscriber, for $1.75 a cord.”  [TDL]

46) Toast ~ And they drank his toast with enthusiasm.  [AtG]

47) Wallet ~

48) Watch ~ After a little while Caroline Darrah rose from a dummy and spoke in a low pleading tone to Polly, who had been watching her game, standing ready to score.  [AtG]

49) Welcome ~ “If there had had been any of her immediate family alive we might have felt differently– but her friends– I didn’t know that I would be welcomed.”  [AtG]

50) Year ~ “I’ve been taking them for nearly forty years.”  [AtG]

 

 

 

 

December 2019 Word Scavenger List

I just now realized I never posted this for the last month of last year!

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “coat”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

1.  Affection ~ It was the first time Creighton had heard Mary speak: a testament to her affection for the young writer.  [Million Dollar Baby]

2.  Attack ~ This is the message the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack Egypt: “Announce this in Egypt, and proclaim it also in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and get ready, for the sword devours those around you.'”  [Jeremiah 46:13-14]

3.  Beauty ~ But the obedience to which it calls God’s people is obedience inspired by the marvel of God and the beauty of His commands.  [Teach Us to Want]

4.  Breed ~ “I have decided positively that women are just half-breed angels with devil markings all over their dispositions.”  [Andrew the Glad]

5.  Calm ~ “Reverend Price and I calmed him down some and took him home, but we agreed it wasn’t safe to leave him alone in that condition.”  [MDB]

6.  Care ~ “When he came home from the hospital, I took care of him.”  [MDB]

7.  Chase ~ Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Edom from its land in an instant.  [Jeremiah 49:9]

8.  Claws ~ “IT was tall, and black, and hairy,” said the Story Girl, her eyes glowing with uncanny intensity in the red glare of the fires, “and IT lifted one great, hairy hand, with claws on the end of it, and clapped William Cowan, first on one shoulder and then on the other, and said, ‘Good sport to you, brother.'”  [The Story Girl]

9.  Coat ~ Lieutenant Wilcox was a fair-haired, heavyset, fiftyish man clad in the obligatory rumpled detective’s trench coat.  [MDB]

10.  Entertain ~ Her delight in the round of entertainments in her honor and the innocent and slightly bewildered adventures she brought the major for consultation kept him in a constant state of interested amusement.  [AtG]

11.  Faithful ~ Long before the introduction of the law of Moses and its 613 commands, the Scriptures declare that Abraham was faithful and obedient: “Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”  [TUtW]

12.  Fight ~ “You’ll have to fight me, if you keep praying against me,”  said Felix.  [TSG]

13.  Food ~ “Before my death-defying stunt, I fortified myself by taking a few vitamin supplements and eating foods rich with the stuff: bananas, apricots, spinach, that sort of thing.”  [MDB]

14.  Fur ~ After many long months traveling with the fur trappers, he’d seen enough abuse of the native women to realize the depths to which a man could sink when he was lonely.  [The Doctor’s Lady]

15.  Gentle ~ She reciprocated at first but then, with a sudden capriciousness, pushed him away gently.  [MDB]

16.  Hair ~ Her eyes were tinged with red, her hair was slightly mussed and she was wrapped in an overly large bathrobe in a familiar pattern.  [MDB]

17.  Hide ~ “You’re the stupidest idiot I know,” Eli’s stepfather said as he scraped at the hide and didn’t miss a stroke.  [TDL]

18.  Hiss ~ “Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in force; they will come against her with axes, like men who cut down trees.”  [Jeremiah 46:22]

19.  Hunt ~ “Good-by, good luck– and good hunting~” called the major after him.  [AtG]

20.  Independent ~ The split-band compressor affects an input signal independently by splitting the audio into multiple bands, as needed, and then recombining the outputs of the bands into a single mono or stereo broadband signal.  [Audio Basics]

21.  Jaw ~ Marjorie set her jaw defiantly.  [MDB]

22.  Jump ~ When the light from his bedroom fell upon the figure, it jumped.  [MDB]

23.  Kind ~ ” You seem to be sincere and kind and eager– but those qualities won’t help you survive the challenges of living in a foreign land.”  [TDL]

24.  Kitten ~ This time her gray blue eyes were large and soft, like those of a kitten.  [TDL]

25.  Lick ~ “Last night, just at twelve, he began to lick his paws.”  [TSG]

26.  Loving ~ The blessing of God’s people is meant for at least two reasons: first, to bind His people into loving communion with Him.  [TUtW]

27.  Mate ~ As Caroline Darrah spoke she swayed the long-stemmed rose she held in her hand and tipped it against one of its mates in the vase.  [AtG]

28.  Nine ~ “Someone might have noticed Gloria or Philips sneaking back home at nine in the morning.”  [MDB]

29.  Odor ~ Even though he’d grown up with the reek of the tannery in every pore of his skin, he didn’t want to spend the next week trying to erase the odor from his clothes and hair.  [TDL]

30.  Outside ~ Once outside, Jameson pulled his car keys from his coat pocket.  [MDB]

31.  Quick ~ “Not that I’m tired,” she added quickly, “but Mary might need me.”  [MDB]

32.  Rescue ~ In his company, she reverted into a retiring, fragile little girl wanting rescuing from the cruel, cold world.  [MDB]

33.  Reward ~ Nighttime brought its own rewards: the handsome policeman who stayed for dinner gave her a piggyback ride around the house, the tall man who talked funny told her a silly made-up bedtime story, and Marjorie tucked her into bed without making her take a bath.  [MDB]

34.  Rub ~ Eli rubbed a hand across the scruff on his face, hoping to hide his embarrassment at being caught staring at the woman.  [TDL]

35.  Scratch ~ He found her in a tiny closet of a bedroom at the end of the hall, taking clothes from a scratched-up dresser and piling them onto an unmade twin bed.  [MDB]

36.  Stray ~ “Almost to the point of paralyzation,” answered David as he filled a stray pipe with some of the major’s most choice heart-leaf tobacco.  [AtG]

37.  Stroke ~ ” He had suffered a stroke that left him very weak.”  [MDB]

38.  Swat ~

39.  Tail ~ “You know Pat doesn’t like to have his tail meddled with.”  [TSG]

40.  Tame ~ Without his hat, the wild, untamable waves of his hair had rebelled against his obvious attempts to smooth them down.  [TDL]

41.  Tease ~ “Marjorie, have you developed a soft spot in your heart for Mrs. Van Allen?” Creighton teased.  [MDB]

42.  Toys ~ “She’ll be needing clean clothes for tomorrow, and there’s some toys she likes to play with.”  [MDB]

43.  Treats ~ “My treat, of course.”  [MDB]

44.  Unwanted ~ The noise gate is used primarily as a fix-it tool to reduce or eliminate unwanted low-level noise from amplifiers, ambience, rumble, noisy tracks, and leakage.  [AB]

45.  Vet/Veterinarian ~

46.  Wash ~ “When I woke Pat was washing his face, and he was taken a whole saucerful of milk.”  [TSG]

47.  Water ~ I wake to clean water running from my faucet.  [TUtW]

48.  Whiskers ~

49.  Wild ~ The cross of Jesus Christ assures us of this wildly improbably proposition that God can remain good in the face of disfiguring loss, even death, and the cross defends the truth that “sometimes God seems to be killing us when He’s actually saving us.”  [TUtW]

50.  Yard ~

 

 

November 2019 Word Scavenger List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “deadly”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

I won for the second month in a row!  This time, I did better than I ever have before:

1)  Airplane ~ “My father made his fortune in England, manufacturing airplane parts.”  [Million Dollar Baby]

2)  Arms ~ “There’ld be no harm in having the men stand to their arms on the island tonight.”  [The Fortunes of Captain Blood]

3)  Attack ~ “Because these pirates dare not venture a frontal attack against your heavily armed fort of Santo Antonio here, they hope to march overland from San Patrico and take you in the rear.”  [FCB]

4)  Authority ~ “Don Ilario is the man in authority now.”  [FCB]

5)  Battle ~ Almost every night battle, murder, or sudden death played some part in her visions.  [The Story Girl]

6)  Bullet ~ “The doctor found the bullet during examination.”  [MDB]

7)  Bunk ~

8)  Chief ~ So Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard, Nebushazban a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer a high official and all the other officers of the king of Babylon sent and had Jeremiah taken out of the courtyard of the guard.  [Jer. 30:13-14]

9)  Chopper ~

10)  Combat ~

11)  Courage ~ And it was actually with laughter that they set about reloading, their courage resrrected by that first if slight success.  [FCB]

12)  Danger ~ It had been sprung, and was not merely useless, but a source of danger.  [FCB]

13)  Deadly ~ Under the compulsion of that tone and of the eyes so blue and cold that looked with deadly menace into his own, Tim’s resistance crumpled, and obediently he climbed down into the hold.  [FCB]

14)  Defend ~ She can defend everything she decides to do because she has wanted to.  [Teach Us to Want]

15)  Deploy ~

16)  Discipline ~ “I will discipline you, but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”  [Jer. 30:11)

17)  Duty ~ A good, but unexamined life will be high on duty and not likely to celebrate the odd paradoxes, the ironic coincidences, and the humor of being dirt…  [C.S. Lewis’ Little Book of Wisdom]

18)  Enlist ~

19)  Exercise ~ When our group became too large, we moved to the school parking lot, and sometimes up to 50 people came to exercise.  [Seated with Christ]

20) Fierce ~  “And he plunged fiercely in.”  [TSG]

21)  Forces ~ But on Monday morning the exasperated Admiral once more plastered the Island with shot, and then stood boldly in to force a passage.  [FCB]

22)  Front ~ *see Attack

23)  Government ~ “It amounts to a government charter for a traffic against which there was a government decree.”  [FCB]

24)  Guard ~ The army of the king of Babylon was then beseiging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.  [Jer. 32:2]

25)  Guns ~  Her poop-rail had been shorn away, and her swivel-guns had gone with it overboard.  [FCB]

26)  Hero ~ Across the harbor and into this scene of heroic activity came towards evening Don Clemente Pedroso, greatly daring and more yellow-faced than ever.  [FCB]

27)  Intelligence ~ “Even if it were not, I might without boasting assert, and you, I am sure, are of intelligence to perceive that the first ship to thrust her bowsprit across that line will be sunk before she can bring a gun to bear.”  [FCB]

28)  Invasion ~ Jameson flinched slightly, then carried through with his invasion.  [MDB]

29)  Join ~ “We have all the apples in and haven’t much to do just now and we are having lots of fun but we wish you were here to join in.”  [TSG]

30)  Loss ~ How often– will it be for always?– how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, ‘I never realized my loss till this moment’?  [CSLLBW]

31)  Loyalty ~ -Loyalty  [The Power of Visual Storytelling]

32)  March ~ *see Attack

33)  Mission ~ If every street in the world had people on mission to love their neighbors and see them as a specific assignment from God to love, protect, and belong to, how would the world change?  [SwC]

34)  Muscle ~ She enjoyed participating in the investigation, relished the opportunity to flex her sleuthing muscles, and even found some measure of joy in sharing Creighton’s company.  [MDB]

35)  Operation ~ Wolverstone’s mistrust of the operation of the Spanish conscience continued unabated, and nourished his contempt of Blood’s faith in the word that had been pledged.  [FCB]

36)  Order ~ He turned to beckon some of the hands in the waist and issued orders briefly whilst the fruit-seller was climbing the accomodation-ladder with a basket of yams balanced on his head.  [FCB]

37)  Parade ~ Even now, they count the straggling parade of kids– one, two three, four, FIVE?  [TUTW]

38)  Patrol ~ He could have been at the theater earlier, but he had spent the past ten minutes scouting the area for a glimpse of Jameson’s patrol car, as it was Creighton’s only means of knowing whether the couple had followed through with their plans.  [MDB]

39)  Peace ~ His single eye remained apprehensively watchful in the three or four peaceful days that followed, but it was not until the morning of Friday, by when, the mast repaired, they were almost ready to put to sea, that he observed anything that he could account significant.  [FCB]

40)  Protect ~ “In short, that it is not to the honour of the flag of France that it should protect a horde of brigands.”  [FCB]

41)  Ready ~ *see Peace

42)  Rifle ~ He was suddenly distracted by the sound of Marjorie rifling through the pages she had placed, face down, on the desk after reading them.  [MDB]

43)  Rounds ~ Round and round.  [CSLLBW]

44)  Security ~ Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.  [Jer. 30:10]

45)  Training ~ Nor he would account sufficient the measures taken in emplacing the guns anew, so that all but six still left to command the Dragon’s Jaw were now trained upon the harbor.  [FCB]

46)  Troops ~ The sixty that remained whole were resolute and steady men– there were no better troops in the world than those of the Spanish infantry– but reduced to helplessness by the bewildered incompetence of the young officer in command  [FCB]

47)  Veteran ~

48)  War ~ Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.  [CSLLBW]

49)  Yelling ~ We were much taken aback to find that Mrs. Ray came to the gate instead of Judy, and rather sourly demanded what we were yelling at.  [TSG]

50)  Zone ~

 

 

October 2019 Word Scavenger List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “crowds”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

This month, I won!  Wonder of wonders!  I found all but 12 words.

1) Afternoon ~ “It seemed like a fine afternoon.”  [Saffire]

2) Alcohol ~ My early speculation that the man who stepped into the bullring was drunk was proven incorrect, as a brief exam of the body had not given any indication of the smell of alcohol.  [S]

3) Attractions ~ See Natural

4) Bands ~ In the afternoons, they sipped mint tea and listened to the military band at the Ghezirah club and wrote postcards to send home: Cairo was marvellous, strange, exotic, and crowded, but full of flies and exceedingly whiffy.  [The Shape of Sand]

5) Beer ~ It was crowded and smelled of wet wood with spilled beer– a scent that competed with the smoke of roasting meat and baked flat breads sold by aproned men screaming for attention.

6) Brew ~

7) Celebration ~ The birthday celebrations took the form of an evening reception, and the guests were around 70 in number.  [TSofS]

8) Community ~ The implications of sitting down together like this– interconnected and equal– are profound, not just for our loneliness, but for our realization of biblical community  [Seated with Christ]

9) Costumes ~ Needlework is something I have never quite seen the point of, but when I approached Clara Hallam, Mma’s maid, for a little assistance with “The Three Graces” costumes, she puckered her mouth like a Dorothy bag and said she’d see what she could do, but of course Madam would have first call on her for her own preparations, which means we shall see nothing of her unless we beg!  [TSofS]

10) Crowds ~ When ready, the matador, I assumed, would step out of this door to greet the crowd, and the door would be shut firmly behind him, with a crossbar in place on this side to prevent a rambunctious bull from knocking it down.  [S]

11) Dancing ~ He took them to where they could see street jugglers, snake-charmers and acrobats, though he adamantly refused expeditions to native cafes where the Ghawazee dancing girls performed, which spectacle ladies were well-advised not to attend.  [TSofS]

12) District ~ I suggest that we send out bulletins to each zone station and alert our own police to the dangers of this powder and warn workers to beware when entering the rougher districts of Colon or Panama City.  [S]

13) Enjoy ~ “Did you enjoy thinking you had fooled me?”  [S]

14) Entertainment ~ She couldn’t altogether blame Vita, however, that this tableau as a choice of birthday entertainment lacked originality, and showed no subtlety.  [TSofS]

15) Event ~ “The girl named Safrana,” I said, “is an orphan because of the events during my trip in Panama.”  [S]

16) Fairgrounds ~

17) Festival ~

18) Flavor ~ “Felicity, if I die from the effects of eating sawdust pudding flavored with needles, you’ll be sorry you ever said such a thing to your poor old uncle,” said Uncle Roger reproachfully.  [The Story Girl]

19) Food ~ The unaccustomed food had upset Millie’s stomach, the heat gave her migraine, and– utter calamity!– she was without her maid.  [TSofS]

20) Friends ~ Nine o’clock in the city, she said, was a perfectly normal hour for friends to gather, and soirees often went into the early hours of the morning.  [S]

21) Fun ~ “Do you understand the concept of fun?”  [S]

22) German ~ “I think Amador is working for the Germans.” [S]

23) Heritage ~ Enter the liberals, offended by our Eurocentric origins and male-dominated Judeo-Christian heritage.  [Uncle Sam’s Plantation]

24) History ~ “First time in inauguration history a president’s wife has insisted on leading the parade with her husband.” [S]

25) Hope ~ “I’ll just hop back to London tomorrow, pick up my belongings and check out at the hotel, and see to one or two other things.”  [TSofS]

26) International ~

27) Keg ~ “I dreamed last night that I threw a lighted match into that keg of gunpowder in Mr. Cook’s store at Markdale,” said Peter.  [TSG]

28) Kick off ~

29) Labels ~ And Aunt Olivia was warned to label all the pincushions in the house.  [TSG]

30) Lager ~

31) Laughter ~ I roared with laughter.  [S]

32) Limit ~ Yet I could not live here, not without far horizon and limitless sky and freedom that some mistook for desperation. [S]

33) Malt ~

34) Music ~ “Oh, and do you think you could remind Mr. Marcus, with my compliments, that not everyone shares his passion for that music he’s playing so loudly?”  [TSofS]

35) Natural ~ “Until then, I’d found myself with an unnatural attraction to Mr. Corillo during our lunches with Raquel Sandoval.”  [S]

36) October ~ But when October arrived, he announced that he might as well go along to Stoke Wycombe for the pheasants, and an audible sigh of relief went through the house.  [TSofS]

37) Parade ~ “Everyone is screaming at me to cancel the parade.” [S]

38) People ~ Physical landmarks had disappeared forever, but what mattered more was the absence of people she had known who were no longer there, for one reason or another.  [TSofS]

39) Pretzel ~

40) Rides ~ So it seemed to Daisy, at any rate, cooling off in the shade of the weeping ash after a hot bicycle ride back from the village whence she’d been bidden by her mother to take horrid old Mrs. Drake a jar of calves’ foot jelly.  [TSofS]

41) Sausage ~

42) Season ~ With modern travel a rancher from the Dakotas could spend a substantial part of the year in the dry season of the tropics, the same way that a woman from Panama could spend the other part of the year– spring through fall roundup– in the Dakotas  [S]

43) Servers ~

44) Stein ~

45) Tent ~ During the war in Iraq, many of us heard the incredible story of supposed foreign terrorists who rolled grenades into three tents killing a captain and injuring fifteen others, including a brigade commander.  [USP]

46) Tradition ~ But she was beginning to realize, too late, that even Amory might be somewhat shaken when he saw what might be done to rooms where previously the decorations, if needing to be renewed, had simply followed accepted tradition.  [TSofS]

47) Vendor ~

48) Visitors ~ The platform was empty as usual, except for the accustomed figure of Joseph Jimson, the young porter, whose sole task, it sometimes appeared, was to await the arrival of the trains which brought and bore away visitors to and from Charnley House– and to deliver to the big house on his bicycle the fresh supplies of fish and meat which were sent direct from Billingsgate and Smithfield.  [TSofS]

49) World ~ She had her world and I had mine.  [S]

50) Yeast ~ It’s for smelling– buttery yeast rolls, the new pages of a book, the dark, rich earth.  [SWC]

 

September 2019 Word Scavenger List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “coffee cup”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

1) Antiques ~ The quilt was purchased by Ross Trump, an antiques collector and dealer and family friend of the Finleys and Dagues.  [Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker]

2) Albums ~

3) Bat ~ What spooky swooping of bats!  [The Story Girl]

4) Bible ~ She had always loved to read, especially the Bible, but she had enjoyed nothing in the way of a formal education.  [MLD]

5) Blanket ~

6) Books ~ “The very idea of domestic servants being persuaded to write books about the secrets of their employers, being crammed by literary adventurers with what they ought to say, and their lumbering and halting narration being helped at every stage by perhaps the very class of men who edit the flash papers of our cities, must be repulsive to every person of an ordinary degree of refinement.” [MLD]

7) Box ~ “You mean the stuffing of the ballot box.”  [Saffire]

8) (Broken) Chair ~ “How provoking,” Mrs. Lincoln exclaimed, sinking heavily into a chair, panting from the effort of scaling the tower of stairs.

9) China ~ “And a china fruit basket with an apple on the handle,” went on Felicity, much relieved.  [TSG]

10) Christmas (Ornaments) ~ I was here because I had received a letter at the ranch before Christmas, instructing me to meet with Colonel George Washington Goethals on the first Sunday morning after my arrival in Panama.  [S]

11) (Cuckoo) Clock ~ “That’s Grandfather King’s old clock striking,” he said, as soon as he was able to speak.

12) Clothing ~ She instructed Elizabeth to make appointments for several dealers in secondhand clothing to call on “Mrs. Clarke” at the Union Place Hotel, but although they duly came, and seemed interested in her goods, they could not agree on a price.  [MLD]

13) Cobwebs ~

14) Coffee Cup ~ I lifted my coffee cup and slurped, guessing that it would irritate the man.  [S]

15) Coins ~

16) Collar ~ In the photos, he wore his military uniform, rounded collar fully buttoned up.  [S]

17) Comic (Books) ~

18) Crib ~

19) Curtains ~

20) Decorations ~

21) Dishes ~ Cecily set the table, and the Story Girl waited on it and washed all the dishes afterwards.  [TSG]

22) Doll ~

23) Futon ~

24) (Board) Game ~ “The Game.”  [S]

25) Instruments ~

26) Jewelry ~ “I tried to sell them a lot of jewelry,” said Mrs. Lincoln.  [MLD]

27) Key ~ “The room is locked up, and Annie has gone out with the key.” [MLD]

28) Lamp ~ Elizabeth bade her goodnight and went off to her own room, but not until she was settled in bed and had turned down the lam did it occur to her that Mrs. Lincoln could have ordered dinner to be served to Elizabeth in her room, so that she would not have had to retire hungry.  [MLD]

29) Letters ~ Startled, Elizabeth read the letter again to be sure she had not misunderstood it.  [MLD]

30) Magazine ~

31) Mouse ~

32) Money ~ Mr. Brady believed that the prominent Republican men who owed their fortunes to Mr. Lincoln would be willing to advance her money rather than let it be made known that his widow was so impoverished that she was compelled to sell her wardrobe!  [MLD]

33) Mummy ~

34) Painting ~ I caught a glimpse of tile floor, a wide hallway, and large paintings on the walls.  [S]

35) Photos ~ Their exhibit resided within the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building, and in their modest portion of the vast space, wooden figures clad in garments designed and made by Elizabeth and her students showed off the department’s skill and artistry, and a revolving showcase displayed photographs and biographies of their graduates.   [MLD]

36) Pillow ~ “Boys, that’s when he reached under his pillow and brought to light a Colt of .45-caliber and pointed it behind me.”  [S]

37) Purse ~ Cromwell pursed his lips.  [S]

38) (Old) Radio ~

39) Records ~ For decades, historians believed that her gravesite would remain forever unknown, but in 2009, a self-described amateur historian named Richard Smyth was researching historical graves within the cemetery’s ledgers and records when he discovered the plot and section where Elizabeth Keckley had been buried.  [MLD]

40) (Badminton) Racket ~

41) Rug ~

42) Souvenirs ~ It was not a symptom of Mrs. Lincoln’s insanity that she could not bear souvenirs of the past.  [MLD]

43) Stamps ~ “It will be important for your investigation that you attend, as that will show everyone who matters that you have an official stamp of approval for your questions.”  [S]

44) (Measuring) Tape ~

45) Tickets ~ I did not know why the man who sent train and steamship tickets with the letter chose me.  [S]

46) Trunk ~ Even so, they were treated with far more courtesy– perhaps because Mrs. Lincoln’s real name was discernible on some of her trunks, if one looked carefully, and the staff knew who she was but pretended otherwise.  [MLD]

47) Toys ~ She had quickly, almost frantically, given away Willie’s toys and books after his death.  [MLD]

48) Video Game ~

49) War (Memorabilia) ~ Elizabeth thrived in the classroom and on peaceful strolls around the campus chatting with her cheerful, inexhaustibly curious, impossibly young students, all of them born after the war, never having known a single day when slavery was the law of the land.  [MLD]

50) Watch ~ I turned my left wrist and glanced at my watch.  [S]

 

 

August 2019 Word Scavenger List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “double”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

I really bombed out this month!  The words were difficult to find, but here are my results:

1) Anchovies ~

2) Avocado ~

3) Bacon ~ It was not an unpleasant whistle, but rather oddly reminiscent of tender things he remembered away back somewhere; and as he fried his bacon and steamed a handful of desiccated potatoes he hummed a song, also rather pleasant to ears that were as closely attentive as Peter’s.  [The Country Beyond]

4) Barbecue (Sauce) ~

5) Beetroot ~

6) Blue cheese ~

7) Bologna ~

8) Brown (Sauce) ~ And Nada stood very close to him, so that her brown head lightly touched his shoulder and he could see the silken shimmer of loose tresses which with sweet intent she had let fall over his arm.  [TCB]

9) Bun ~

10) Cheddar ~

11) Cheese ~ Some observers cast off their shock and hurried back into their homes, quickly returning with bread, cheese, apples, and other food to distribute to the passing soldiers.  [Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker]

12) Chili ~

13) Double ~ The corporate income tax really amounts to double taxation.  [Uncle Sam’s Plantation]

14) Feta (Cheese) ~

15) French Fries ~

16) Fried Egg ~

17) Fry ~ see Bacon

18) Grill ~

19) Guacamole ~

20) Ham ~ Soon after we were at supper in the kitchen, with its low, dark, raftered ceiling from which substantial hams and flitches of bacon were hanging.  [The Story Girl]

21) Jalapenos ~

22) Ketchup ~

23) Lettuce ~

24) Mayonnaise ~

25) Mince ~

26) Mushrooms ~

27) Mustard ~

28) Onion ~ Then I DO like to go and look at the nice little rows of onions and beets.  [TSG]

29) Onion rings ~

30) Pastrami ~

31) Peppers ~

32) Pickles ~

33) Pineapple ~

34) Potato Chips ~

35) Relish ~ “She underestimated your principles and your loyalty,” said Emma, clearly relishing her triumph at discovering the scheme. [MLD]

36) Round ~ At first his back was towards us, but he turned round in time, to our side of the theatre, and looked at the boxes above us, using his glass for a few minutes– then removing it, but still continuing to look up.  [The Woman in White]

37) Salad Dressing ~

38) Salsa ~

39) Sauce ~

40) Scrambled egg ~

41) Single ~ Let’s say you’re single and know that having sex before marriage is a sin.  [Distinctly You]

42) Slider ~

43) Square ~ If I were to try to sell something that I painted, it wouldn’t get a dime because I can’t draw a square straight. [DY]

44) Steak (burger) ~

45) Swiss ~

46) Tartar sauce ~

47) Thick ~ In the thickening dusk he took Nada’s white face between his hands.  [TCB]

48) Thin ~ In the open door he stood for a moment, his thin, ferret-like face standing out against the black background of the night, and his strange eyes, apparently half closed yet bright as diamonds, sweeping the interior without effort but with the quickness of lightning.  [TCB]

49) Tomato ~

50) Triple ~

 

July 2019 Word Scavenger List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “experience”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.

1. Alert ~ “PDA alert!,” he called out.  [Between Us Girls]

2. Animals ~ The place was a zoo, speaking animal-costume-wise.  [BUG]

3. Backpack ~

4. Blanket ~ She shivered and pulled the blanket closer.  [BUG]

5. Boots ~ He was in all-black mode, wearing jacket, pants, boots, and sunglasses with even a stocking cap and gloves.  [BUG]

6. Bugs ~

7. Camp ~ One evening he stopped for camp at the edge of the Burntwood.  [The County Beyond]

8. Canteen ~

9. Compass ~ The facts are clear: Boys without married fathers are more likely to grow up to become men without a moral compass, and without a moral compass guys are woefully ill-equipped to temper their sexual urges.  [Uncle Sam’s Plantation]

10. Direction ~ Beau, Jasmyn, Keagan, and Sam said their good nights outside Liv’s door and veered off in four directions through the courtyard shadows.  [BUG]

11. Endure ~ If you want to endure anything life brings your way, decide in advance (before the storm) that it’s God’s way or no way.  [Distinctly You]

12. Equipment ~

13. Exercise ~ There is nothing wrong with a lifestyle of consistent exercise.  [DY]

14. Experience ~ Have you ever had that experience?  [DY]

15. Family ~ Liv adjusted her glasses and looked at a family photo.  [BUG]

16. (Camp) Fire ~ In another flash the twin balls of green fire were gone.  [TCB]

17. Fishing ~ Manda talked about tuna fishing.  [BUG]

18. Flashlight ~

19. Friends ~ Samantha behaving like a friend to Jasmyn.  [BUG]

20. Fun ~ “Like it’s been fun getting to know you, have a good life.”  [BUG]

21. Games ~ “Come in on Friday after the football game.” [BUG]

22. Gear ~ By the time I had moved into my teenage years, the feminist movement was in full gear.  [USP]

23. Grass ~ There had still been vague outlines in the dirt of the house and barns, remnants of the grass yard.  [BUG]

24. Guide ~ When I consistently do this, asking God to guide my thoughts and my tongue, my speech is much more effective, and God is glorified in the process.  [DY]

25. Heat ~ It was a cool and cavernous spot, in spite of the Sahara-like heat of the great pile.  [TCB]

26. Hike ~ Her father had tried to explain it to her little girl mind when they hiked.  [BUG]

27. Insects ~ And through it all,– through the lazy drone of insects, the rustling sighs of the tree tops and the subdued notes of living things ran a low and tremulous whispering, as if nature had found for itself a new language in this temporary absence of man.  [TCB]

28. Kits ~ “There’s brandy in our kit.”  [TCB]

29. Knife ~ “He’s eighty years old but still one of the sharper knives in the drawer.” [BUG]

30. Knowledge ~ “Knowledgeable.”  [BUG]

31. Lantern ~ Samantha and Jasmyn laughed now as they took down the orange Japanese lanterns.  [BUG]

32. Leader ~ Miriam and Aaron held the key powerful positions of priest and prophet, but they resented that Moses (their younger brother) was the leader.  [DY]

33. Location ~

34. Map ~ To the east was Hudson’s Bay; westward lay the black forests and twisting waterways of Upper Saskatchewan; and north– always north– beckoned the lonely plains and unmapped wildernesses of the Athabasca, the slave and the Great Bear,– toward which far country their trail was slowly but surely wending its way.  [TCB]

35. Marshmallows ~

36. Matches ~ If the word on the street is that her walk matches her talk, that’s saying a lot.  [DY]

37. Mountain ~ In her mind’s eye she saw again the desert floor, its massive display of valleys and mountains and rocks and vegetation.  [BUG]

38. Nature ~ Nature spoke to her as it had to her father and his parents before him.  [BUG]

39. Outdoors ~ “It’s a little unnerving to think about this group sleeping outdoors tonight.”  [BUG]

40. Overnight ~ “Took both of them practically overnight.” [BUG]

41. Peace ~ It’s a path of wholeness, abundant living, and peace when we choose to obey and walk in it.  [DY]

42. Plan ~ For all Live knew, he had a plan to get samples from both Jasmyn and these people.  [BUG]

43. Play ~ About a hundred yards away, like a kid’s erector play set, there were vertical and horizontal beams, crossing each other.  [BUG]

44. Remote ~

45. Rope ~ “Sit down, Neekewa,” she whispered, drawing the ropes of her hair about her as if she were cold.  [TCB]

46. Stars ~ “I noticed her because she was one of the stars, you know.” [BUG]

47. Tent ~ When God stopped speaking and the cloud lifted above the tent, Miriam had leprosy; her skin was like snow.  [DY]

48. Trail ~ Jasmyn’s imagination raced down one rabbit trail after another.  [BUG]

49. Vacation ~ “Quinn said you’re on vacation.”  [BUG]

50. Woods ~ And Jolly Roger, as he worked, was giving instructions to the girl, who was quick as a bird to bring him cloth which she tore into bandages, so that at the end of ten minutes Peter’s right hind leg was trussed up so tightly that it was as stiff and as useless as a piece of wood.  [TCB]

 

 

June 2019 Scavenger Word List

Every month (and other alternative timelines), The Lost Challenges provide new scavenger lists of up to 50 words to look for while reading whatever you choose to read (for example, the current list includes the word “flavor”). If I come across that word while reading, I mark it down. It’s fun to see how many I can find by the end of the month. This works well if you have more than one book going at a time like me, or read very fast. I do it along with another person I know and we compare lists to see who found the most words.  THIS MONTH, I FINALLY WON!

1. Al Dente ~

2. Bake ~ Mamie was immersed in the kitchen, baking an abundance of Yule bread and black bun, the fragrance rivaling the confectionery on Water Street.  [Love’s Awakening]

3. Beat ~ “Opposition is growing fiercer toward those of us who help fugitives– more beatings, threats, torched homes and barns.” [LA]

4. Blend ~

5. Boil ~ One moment I was okay, the next, I was boiling with anger.  [Distinctly You]

6. Burn ~ But the sky above New Hope was clear and blue as a robin’s egg, and the letter she’d just received seemed to burn a hole in her pocket, spurring her on.  [LA]

7. Chill ~ A chill crept over Ellie despite the day’s heat.  [LA]

8. Chop ~

9. Cream ~ Not ebony but the hue of coffee with cream, born of a black mother and a white overseer.  [LA]

10. Cube ~

11. Dash ~

12. Dice ~

13. Drain ~ Oh, to rearrange time… drain the rivers dry so he couldn’t leave… send for Reverend Herron, who’d surely voice his objections to her wedding a rebllious Turlock when he’d expected a pious Cameron instead… becoming mistress of River Hill in the span of a blessed, passion-filled night… have Chloe returned to their care and begin a new life.  [LA]

14. Drizzle ~

15. Flavor ~ Zigzagging through a maze of short blocks, she made her way from the beach to the business area, a hodgepodge of beach culture and smalltown flavor.  [Between Us Girls]

16. Fold ~ Drawing her feet up on the stool’s edge, she wrapped her arms around her legs and the voluminous folds of her linen skirt, feeling like a little girl again.  [LA]

17. Freeze ~

18. Frost ~ A standing ovation soon freed the group from their balcony box, and they went out into the frosty night.  [LA]

19. Fry ~ They spoke of wild changes they would make to the restaurant, beginning with a French-themed decor, which made no sense at all unless they convinced people that the Eiffel Tower and French fries were somehow connected.  [BUG]

20. Grate ~ She snatched the shackles away and flung them into the hearth’s fire, where they clattered noisily against the grate.  [LA]

21. Grease ~

22. Grill ~

23. Grind ~ Inside the cavernous building, water poured over a huge mill wheel that operated alongside gears designed the century before for grinding grain.  [LA]

24. Hard ~ The hopelessness in her tone struck Ellie hard.  [LA]

25. Heat ~ see Chill.

26. Ice ~ Better to ponder the reality of the coming autumn with its corn stubble and spent fields… and winter’s rivers locked fast with ice, barring his way back to them.  [LA]

27. Knead ~ “It didn’t need nervous kneading.”  [BUG]

28. Layer ~ Biscuits layered with ham.  [LA]

29. Mash ~ They approached the bustling distillery, the scent of the mash tubs, seething with fermenting grain, overpowering and ripe.  [LA]

30. Measure ~ His balding pate shone in the dim light as he bent to measure a leg next, leaving Jack free to look about the tidy room.  [LA]

31. Melt ~ Something inside her melted.  [LA]

32. Mix ~ Ellie marveled that Mama almost made a game of it, having them practice their chosen names till they were comfortable as a well-worn garment, mixing up the slates and having everyone remember who they were with a great deal of high-spirited merriment.  [LA]

33. Mold ~

34. Oil ~ Taking her by the arm, he went inside the house, eyes trailing to the stairwell ceiling, where oil-brushed angels played their harps, reminding him again of Ellie.  [LA]

35. Oven ~ She wore flannel pajamas, ate homemade meatballs and spaghetti, and watched an evening newscast on the small television that sat next to the toaster oven on the countertop.  [BUG]

36. Pare ~

37. Peel ~

38. Pinch ~ She took a deep breath, feeling the pinch of her stays.  [LA]

39. Quarter ~ I did take my English teacher’s warning seriously and registered for a writing class each quarter.  [DY]

40. Raw ~ Why did she always feel so raw at the mere mention of him?  [LA]

41. Rise ~ “Nay, I prefer to swim sober,” Jack said, voice snatched by the rising wind.  [LA]

42. Scramble ~

43. Separate ~ Nothing could bridge the chasm that separated them.  [LA]

44. Skin ~ Strangely enough, his suit was comfortable as a second skin, the stock Sol had tied not overly tight.  [LA]

45. Smoke ~ He drew hard on his pipe and leaned back in his chair, studying her through skirls of smoke.  [LA]

46. Steam ~ “I’ve never ridden on a steamer.”  [LA]

47. Stir ~ The question, asked again and again, never failed to stir Ellie’s spirit.  [LA]

48. Toss ~ Then why did she feel so tossed about, her thoughts and emotions in a perpetual tangle?  [LA]

49. Warm ~ “It’s such a pretty day, not too warm.” [LA]

50. Whip ~ Smart as whips.  [BUG]