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Chapter 1
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sweeping up to the cool blue of the sky
cottages
with Luke astride her hip
track toward the road
archetypal figure
a whole freight of reference
the sweep of the cornfield
Seen through one lens
a Hardy heroine
glint of sun
amid rippling green
windscreen
delicate tracery against the sky
adroitly photographed
the building appears to be locked still
into the early nineteenth century
a terrace of three two-storey cottages
attic dormer windows
roofed with stone slate
local provenanace
tucked snug into the fields
have have grown of its own accord
made from the very bones of this land
emanation of a time and a place
World's End is suspended in this
landscape
turfed-over bunkers kitted out as
command
posts
the building has been gutted
staircase twists up
disconcertingly precipitate staircase
Pauline has had hand rails put
narrow treads
she cannot be bothered with any
further upheaval
the whole place is radiant
ticks and tocks
tap into a global communication
network
conjure up the information resources
rooted up in a time and a place
flight deck of 707
curious name
casually
offhand
self-deprecating (glance)
Bosnian
koje se prua do pastelno plavog neba
ladanjske kue
sa Lukeom smjetenim na njen kuk
staza koja vodi na put
tipina figura
cijeli teret aluzija
dugako i zavojito polje kukuruza
gledajui s jednog stajalita
heroina Hardyjevih
odbljesak sunca
meu mrekavim zelenilom
vjetrobran
delikatna ukrasna linija naspram neba
vjeto fotografisano
graevina djeluje kao da je smjetena u rani
devetnaesti vijek
niz od tri dvoetane kuice
tavanski/potkrovni prozori
pokrivena kamenim crijepom/kamenom kriljevcem,
lokalno porijeklo
udobno uukana u polja
mogla nastati svojevoljno
stvorena od samih kostiju zemlje
rezultat je vremena i mjesta
World's End je smjeten u ovaj krajolik
travom prekriveni bunkeri opremljeni kao komandna
mjesta
graevina je trona (also:gutted: izgorio, uniten)
spiralno se penje
pretjerano, previe strmo stepenite
Pauline je dala napraviti
uska gazita/stepenice
Ona se sada ne moe vie zamarati sa dodatnim
izmjenama. (great change, especially causing or
involving much difficulty, activity or trouble)
cijela kua je blistava
kuckaju (mehanizmi)
spojiti na globalnu komunikacijsku mreu
potraiti informacije
usaen je u vrijeme i mjesto
pilotska kabina boinga 707
zanimljivo ime
oputeno
usput
skroman, izvinjavajui pogled, pravdajuitrying to make yourself, your abilities or your achievements seem
less important
faintly irritated
flickers for a moment
far gone in love
snared
commited
her hand frets up and down
thrilling jolt of recognition
up-rush of being
spin it out
exquisite anticipation
the moment comes gushing back
station concourse
prompt, n
she draws tactful attention to
she shunts the manuscript
summer is a distinct possibility
Luke-noises
off-stage to all intents and purposes
reputation as the maverick young
author of books on quirky aspects of
history
that flattered the reader by being
simultaneously scholarly and inviting
a sparky account of tobacco industry
a contentious book of the stately
home business
a hefty project
there is a serious talk of TV
blago iritirana
zatreperi na trenutak
davno nestao u ljubavi
zarobljen
predan
prelazi rukom gore-dolje
uzbuujui udar prepoznavanja
navala
odugovlaiti
snano iekivanje
prisjea se trenutka
hol stanice
asocijacija
obzirno skree panju na
odgurne rukopis
ljeto je jasna mogunost
Luka-zvukove
iza kulisa na sve mogue naine
reputacija odmetnika, mladog autora knjiga o
neobinim aspektima istorije
koje su laskale itaocu tako to su u isto vrijeme bile i
poune i privlane
ivahan pregled industrije duhana
sporna knjiga o marketingu velianstvenog kunog
poslovanja
velik, vaan projekat
odvijaju se ozbiljni razgovori o TV serijama vezanim
Pronunciation
za knjigu
knjige koju pie
(knjiga) potencijalne materijalne vrijednosti
koju koriste kao vikendicu
poslovna putovanja
ureivaka elektrana
slobodni lektor
Semantika oskrvnua i nemar kreativnog zanosa
paljivo prelazi romane
zainjeni su njenim jasnim i neutralnim komentarima
zbunjujui pasus/ulomak
tvrdoglavi
mijenjanje referenci iz rjenika i knjievnih presedana
sa svim gramatikim grekama, u tekstu:drage volje
ne tie je se
dok se sunce dizalo i prelazilo na drugu stranu
ozima penica
bogato zeleno krzno
dobra etva
nije pretjerano ljubazan ovjek
suzdrano poznanstvo
neobavezan razgovor
zatraila tu informaciju o polju
podrugljivo
otresito
zapravo
kakvi oni ve jesu
kamp za stambene prikolice
plantaa voa po principu 'ubei sam'
farma brojler pilia
nov ali slupan Peugeot
izdajui kratke naredbe
jarko uta
prostire se
vrh brda
uljana repa
puristi
glasni
odbacuju ga kao nejednolinu i neskladnu i notu meu
suptilnim tonovima engleskog krajolika
stvar je ozloglaena kao nametljiv parazit
EC agrukulturna politika
radost
nemili politiki prizvuci
prolazni kvaliteti ovog krajolika
popodne polako postaje veer
ono neobino, strmo stepenite
pripravni
ugodno ljeto
Indetikit portrait
conjure up Maurice's face at will
assemblage of references
a suggestion of her high curved
eyebrows
flicker
Pauline's feature's are broader
mirror-glimpse
self-elusive
there is a change of key as the two
women speak
resonances
demurs
I could do with
comings and goings
second draft
editorial input
Is going to come off
mundane
reverberations
bland surface
manifestations
dissolve
standing him up
advises
fancy free
mortified
water down the drain
footloose
howls
sweeps him up
jutting out
tenaciously
past their pime
scabby fruit
rank upon rank
swathe
green sweep
discordant note
rim
fawn, n
verge
battery chickens
blotches
line up of wheat
ground down
outstripped the economic climate
stunted people
skin ripened by dirt and weather
keeling over
billowing gold
troubled soul
contemplation
wet with dew
cyber space
twich
bob
fuelled by coffee
side-step difficulties
it would not have occured to him
French window
taken on board
eclecticism
atentive look
central to his charm
feel enhanced
impervious
peering at her
gives way to
intent
adroit
man of swift and elusive mental
processes
does not account for hamhandedness
when you have tipped forty
the age is stalking him
onset of panic
frenetic pace
shooting off
she knew him in a desultory way
published by an imprint of the publishing
fotorobot portret
prisjetiti se mauriceovog lica kada poele
zbir aluzija
nagovjetaj njenih
lepranje
paulinine crte lica su ire
odraz sebe
varljiv
mijenja se ton glasa
rezonance
oklijeva
trebao bi mi hljeb
hodanje
drugi nacrt
uputa od urednika
biti realizovan
dosadna
jeka
blaga povrina
manifestacije
pretvara
izvisiti
savjetuje
besposlena
poniena
lanjski snijeg
besposlena
urla
podigla
stri
uporno
ije vrijeme je odavno prolo
krastave plodove
redak po redak
zavoj
zeleni zavoj
neskladna nota
rub
ukasto smea boja
rub
tovljeni pilii
mrlje
uredno poredana penica
izrodila
nadmaila ekonomsko ozraje
izmorene ljude
koa sazrela od prljavtine vremena
padajui (u nesvjest), ubijajui se od posla
zlatno talasanje
napaena dua
razmiljanje
oroen
imaginarni prostor
trzati
brzo se kretati, poskakivati, njihati se
pokree ga kafa
zaobii nevolje
nije mu palo na pamet
stakelna vrata za verandu
uzeo za ozbiljno
eklekticizam, nepostojanje jedinstva i
dosljednosti, spajanje protivrjenog
pobjedonosni pogled vrijedan panje
adut njegovog arma
osjeaju se vrijednim toga
nepopustljiva, neprobojan
pilji
odaje jednog drugog
zainteresovane (oi), uprte s namjerom
vjet
ovjek koji brzo i vjeto razmilja
nema veze sa nezgrapnou, nespretnou
kada navri etrdesetu
starost ga proganja, vreba
buenje panike
ludi ritam
traga za novim avanturama
poznavala ga je povrno
the name of a publisher (= a company that
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conglomerate
struck up a mild acquaintance
conversational overdrive
beguiling conversationalist
clenched in disbelief and dismay
incandescent
wailed
inherently
wriggling
potters off
a clump of grass
maw
he finds Luke engaging
parental commitment
pile
reinvented as a theme park
jousting matches
falconry displays
detached
self-absorbed
probes
aloof
implacable purpose
relentless manipulation
orbit
Maurice considers her
quizzically
grins
sternly
down from dandellion clock
As it is, few people would have the
temerity to ask
temerity to ask
possessed of a nice balance
therapist running for cover
quasi resident status
the unattached
to indulge the mood of the moment
social duplicity
nurtured minor satisfactions
gratifications of self-indulgences
unfettered life, without the grating
irritation of presences that are too
present
treacherous void
spectres
swarming
having negotiated so much
/njumt.k/
Chapter 3
hospital ward
double rank of legs
legs ranged carelessly on beds
sticking out below nighties and dressinggowns
acreage of female flesh
modest
bolniko odjeljenje
dupli redovi nogu
noge nemarno poloene na krevete
trale ispod spavaica i kunih haljina (nigtiespavaica)
gomila enskih tijela acreage-zemljite
skroman, edan, nenametljiv
/e.kr.d/
prudish
awash with people
acolytes
eddying toddlers
obsolete
defunct
bubble of content
ghastly
frightful
terrific
She is grabbed in a vice of pain,
she is clenched by a great fist of pain
which wrings her till she yells and then
releases her
shoos him away
fear and pain are componded into one
hideous roaring black event
dispassionate faces
linoleum floor
trolley
quiff
awry
she is floating
ringing down the years
voices that boom
she is awed
eerie stranger
a deep transverse arrest
the doctor brought bustling from his tea
break
scurrying nurses, doctor brought
No great crisis, in the scale of things
came out of it unsatched
bald narrative
steel-hard pain
tapping feet
dodgy
she relays the weather forecast
tacit agreement
has a cooking spree
lambing ewes
spasmodic gunfire
mammoth combines pulverizing a field
of wheat
ludicrous
took a strong line about diet
a ragged fringe
gap-toothed
in some profound way
wind ruffles the field
shadows course across the young
wheat
the whole place is an excercise in colour
russet
landscape clenched with cold
frosting of blackthorn
insubstantial, more insubstatial
tenacious life
skived off
shambling man
thatch
pepper-and-salt hair
laid waste her life
holed up in this cocoon of neurosis
came about
genial
implacable silence
see it out
stonewall answering machine
tremulous
stolid endurance
homely
companionable form of sex
carnal relationship
in a fit of compunction
remotely interested
bleak
hushed interior
/k.l.at/
UK /trf.k/ due
drugo
/ln.li.m/
UK/.ri/ US/r.i/
UK /skr.i/ US /sk-/
u napadu savjesti
/rg.d/
unitavajui konkurenciju
pazei klijente
priati u detalje
smeteno, tupavo
Chapter 4
the postman's weather bulletin
crisp and sparkling landscape
to set to and do something
desultory gardener
leggy
prune
Potentilla
half-smothered
Goosegrass
Couch grass
implements
gets going
businesslike figure
perfunctory gardener
run out of steam
dig it over
annuals
gangling
trim figure
thonged sandals
gashed her leg
slick
hunts in the kitchen
savlon
produces
warily
props
hash
bathes
ineptness
jabs
at her ease
agitating
hefting
dugonog
obrezivati, odstraniti suvino
oprezno
zbrka
injekcije
stooping frame
diffidence
measure of Maurice
acolyte
bedraggled ( rose)
thicket
snips
tweak
got around to mentioning
plane of existence
wowing
sprawling
stepped off into
anodyne
nugget
ubiquitous
treads carefully
whiff of Hary
convoluted ingenious twist of the
jelaousy business
keenly
defused
unmanned
late
ovetones
feckles
excesses
rears above
the rose is now tamed
on her plate
tips over
closeted
hums
appliances
in fine fettle
cheese course
disc earrings
tinged with pink
fondly
quizzical
animated discussion
thughtful look
wary
cunning sales talk
appreciatively
james looks a trifle put out
fancy, v
tedious
tipsy
anti-romanticism
a rotten cynic
stacking plates
showing off
asperity
fraud
undismayed
quarter moon
insubstantial
scrap of paper
incandescent
intrusion
shed
having a go
dismissively
inner city
muting
criminal propensities
apple scrumping
village bobby
Locked into time warp
bening nirvana
haystack
Shell poster
pounces with glee
ostering
gulf
duped
mayhem
dug op
bashed to bits
mokar, blatnjav
gutara
upkati
u dobrom stanju
jedno jelo u toku obroka
nametnitvo
upa
nemarno, nehajno
centar grada, gradsko jezgro
kriminalne sklonosti
kraa jabuka
seoski policajac
zatoen/zaglavljen u vremenu
blaga nirvana
plast sijena
Shellov poster
skakati od radosti
razaranje, pustoenje
foundlings
mitigation
conspicuous distress
for what it's worth
maraund
agreeable
portico
mullion
pargeted
posse
remonstrate
affronted
school fetes and wranglers
rotary association
paddling pool
single lanes
ply
ranks of heads
quaint
medical practice
cathedral town
found iself host to
brittle fellow
swingeing
revelled
particular line
struck a fashionable note
sabbatical term
jaunt
played the system
juggle with job offers
swarmed
leafy suburb
to up sticks
fettered
senior lecturer
reader
professor
suiting inclination and convenience
keyed up by wine
anachronistic shell
accomodating
slips imperviously
clobbered
stirred
at her fingertips
seething cities
conflicting impressions
bulbous and finned
the blanket of trees
english county
lifeline
astounding
outrageous
heady with achievement and abbition
sleazy
slabljenje, ublaavanje
pljakati
stub izmeu dva dijela prozora
obukan
drutvo, skupina, rulja
protestvovati
uvrijeen
fete-sveanost, wrangle-prepirka, diskusija
djeiji bazen
redovno saobraati
udan, stran
hladnokrvan
ogroman, sjajan
pobudilo modernu notu
subotnji
ii na izlet
manipulisati
predgrae bogato zelenilom
naglo se preseliti, seljakati se
docent
vanredni professor
redovni professor
gomoljast
ue za spasavanje
skandalozan, besraman
zaputen, prljav,
jeftin
stifling dawns
mangled sheets
crotch
to fetch up here
for keeps
consing
prisjeati se,
izdvojiti u mislima
Chapter 5
kept bobbing up among the trees
nenadano se
pojavljivati
presumably
conveniently
sprouts
oilseed rape
ochre streches of set-aside
happy eaters
vice of ring roads
bypass, n
layout
dual carriageway
acreage of tarmac
high street
prosperous
zaobilaznica
cesta, traka na cesti
asfalt sa ljunkom
glavna ulica
building societies
eclipse
satellite empire
tidily signposted
outlying roundabout
savnnah
ranch-emporia encased
cordon sanitaire
curiosity
patently long past its sell-by date
discredited
decant
buggy
slotted
redevelopment
buttermarket
pedestrian precinct
lolling asleep
sun canopies
regal
frilled pillows
baciti u sjenu
oito
preliti
djeja kolica
svrstan u kategoriju
podruje, zona
zavaljeno leati
naborani, nakieni, sa
volanima
urban blight
fly into a panic
child-bearing years
great good pill
bared its teeth
in a stew
muttering
blood clots
blankly
the climate of anxiety
fickle
sartorial fashion
freight
boiler suit
owned up to at clinics
surgeries
babygros
thickets
time was
a reproving glance
notch
cheapo
semis
scrape together
bent doctors
brass plate
humdred quid
dome
untarnished
reffered to him thus
busied herself with luke
her expression is guarded
puting out a feeler in her direction
to wither
rewriting
time-wise
stoop
fastidious
modish
idiosyncratic
stylishness
climate
writhe
roars
weeps
flaring sensibility
anguish supplants ectasy
otkrilo, pokazalo
uznemiren, uzbuen,
uzrujan
krvni ugruci
nestalan, promjenjiv
krojaka
radniki kombinezon
stepenica, stepen
semi-detached house
neprljan
ispipavajui teren
pomodan
osebujan, poseban
istisnuti, izgurati,
potkopati
tobogan, cestasa
mnogo serpentina
switchback of feeling
raw bleeding tears of pain
unremittingly content
koji ne popiuta,
neprestan
klonuti, skljokati se
prostrujati, nadirati
slump
surge through
coasted along
fires are banked
the cars surges
lark
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bubbling
to raise to the bait
exuding well-being
he is all compliance
uborei
zagristi na mamac
poputanje,
udovoljenje
compunction
her face taut and pinched
stow
marked up
gutted
detritus
clay pipe
shards
tenacious
majolica bowl
napeto i upalo
utovarati, slagati teret
organski otpaci
krhotine
majolika,fajansa
(pocakljen ai oarana
glina)
kuhinjski kredenac
zastario, staromodan
namoen
pine dresser
outmoded furniture
dunked
tricked out
resonance
loaded
barbed relationship
sidestepping malevolence
unrelentingly prophylactics
zajedljiv
izbjegavajui
neumoljivo,
nepopustljivo,
nemilosrdno
exasperated
outflanking her mother
to circumvent the restrictions
nadmudrujui
nadmudriti,
onemoguiti, zaobii
nagao, tvrdoglav,
euforian
turistika meka
podmuklo,
spletkaroki
pratnja
motao se oko
zagrijati s eza,
zainteresovati s eza
entourage
milled around the cars
to warm to
bashing in his profession
an innoncent
under the umbrella
cruising the landscape
diversion
pod okriljem
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fayre
leaps upon the point with enthusiasm
the tv angle
shoot off
fascination
he's going places
we jumped at it
interjects
keen
pernicious
typescript
deep conditioning got the better of me
grate of the fireplace
feathers of charred paper
dutch interior
interested detachment
wedge of sunlight
awry
his glance swivels to the the table
the pile of typescript jutting from under
the newspaper
awash with people
the pavements are teeming
Maurice has shot off into the
information centre
administering juice to luke
desultorily
toys made of polished yew
he was in the vanguard of the
academic fashion of that time
apocryphal, ideal village
all done to scale
waist high
propitiating hand
joint, n
tea strainers
raking it in (business)
chutney
a day out
limestone buildings
intrusions
to go the whole hog
anchovy
dundee cake
zanos
ubacuje
poguban, koban,
tetan
kopija otkucana na pisaoj maini
reetka na kaminu
vrve
dajui
tisa
prethodnica,
avangarda
lano
lokal, bife
zaraditi novac, na lak
nain
voni ajvar
izlazak
kamen vapnenac
ii do kraja
inun
voni kola, sa
bademima
prslue, gornji dio
haljine
crta na pantolama
high bodice
sharp crease
going for clothes that she has
contrived herself
market stalls
jumble sales
prodajasvega i
svaega
standard fare
sui generis
esoteric textures and patterns
nubbly raw silk
disconcerted her
floating above
she pulls a face
pauline is contrite
superficial sense
unfractured talk
indignantly
oven gloves
hand-thrown mugs
a fleeting thought
kvrgav, vorast
neobavezan,
neodreen, suzdrljiv
nalet
stoj za cijeenje
a flurry of consolation
mangle
it exploited me all right
deck chairs
jostle
she darts frantically off
tussle
to click home the catch
staggers
lealjke
gurati se
skopati
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naglo zaokrenuti
koji se protivi, ne
odobrava
uzrujati, preplaiti
iskrivljen, izoblien
rattle
contorted
fiddles with his car keys
anodyne
jolted by her tone
clobbered
potters out into the flashing road
fortuitous stranger
desultory way
subordinate capacity
literary groupie
leech on to writers
casual dismissal
mild dislike tempered with a certain
caution
oddity
brisk
solicitous about Teresa
needs must when the devil drives
anyway, there it was
to dwell on these things
blackbirds shreik
has shadowed Teresa over the years
Pauline shrinks
pickings
resilience
Chapter 7
contemptuos rejection
pin-prick
scenic into the bargain
fufty quid
slaughter a child
she rings off.
fickle nature of space
pullulating cottage
toy-littered floor
flagshi of chaundy's fleet
batery chicken complex
thickets of barbed wire
outside the branch of the mace store
homely role to reference book status
gravadlax
petunias
lobelia
tacken aback- iznenaena, zapanjena
knock-on effect
spate of foreigners-bujica
diversionary move
enforces pauline reaction-potie,
primorava
uncanilly
academic stakes
perch
rus versus urbe
aplied
diffuse
he has fallen upon stony ground
foxy look
shrewd
to clam up-povui se u sebe
laying himself out to please
wheelbarrow
gushes obelia
open-weave curtains
swinging black-clad students
complacent pile
whirlwind
bout
a snatched day
that will keep him at the sharp end of
his profession
posse of students
vats of spaghetti
dote on him
to ride high
the faculty and students are mingled
unconfident
sluajni prolaznik
oboavatelj,
sljedbenik
tavie, jo k tome
spokojan, samodopadan
pokuaj
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jaukati
bujan, raskoan
elder-zova
pelt-neobraena koa, krzno
talasati se na vjetru
jahaa staza
vrsta putne torbe
razmetati se
matini ured
krda, mnotva
mnotvo, obilje
pjenaste
oaran, zadivljen
nakieno, upadljivo
loe odjeveni
krcat ljudima
bogati, imuni, dobrostojei
jato gusaka, skupina rasprianih ena
blago, strpljivo, popustljivo
zapleteno, nerazmrsivo
smeten, zamiljen, odsutan duhom
zraka svjetla
opirno,
neobuzdano, pretjerano
uporite, tlo pod nogama
zabadalo
upad, provala, najezda
poplava
napredovati
nadmudriti, nadigrati
vui naporno i teko
pustopoljina
putokaz
smjernica
skretanje, izlaz sa auto puta
rupe na cesti
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draughtsmanship
gazetter
strip by strip
insignia
schematic trees
skims past the village
swagged with plastic bunting
skotted into traffic
beyond and behind
impercepibly
tunnels her way
splutter
churlish
insularity
grubby vests
garish slippery flyers
relegated
shunted aside
suspended
tediously
debilitating
flippant
low emotional temperature
concoction
complacency
foxed book
becoming
to subscribe to any set of religious
beliefs
it's got too strong a track record
to pronounce on that
creeping through
crab terrine
tampered with
in the interest of scholarship
higher plane
purveyor of choice goodies
firsts
pristine condition
got a bee in their bonnet
stupendously
arcane treasure
long-standing arrangement
deli, n
upper west side
up to scratch
pigeon affair
pay courtesy calls
clocked in
to cause a stir
to pull one's punches
veers off
dug in down in the stick
riley
with relish
high jinks within the trade
to wheel and deal
gargantuan
supersede
climactic
racket
incoherent
torrential
bawl
Chapter 9
bar
compelling
glints off
bangs
whoosh
splash
pour
antediluvian
upwardly mobile
aspire to
avocado suit
wings
serration
plane
groove
cranny
ctaka vjetina
geografski leksikon
zastavice
neprimjetno
pljuckati u govoru, prskati
prostaki, neotesan
provincijski duh, uskogrudost
prljav, pun liinki
napadan, dreav
prognan
iscrpljujue
neozbiljan
poutjela
opskrbnik
netaknut, prastar, davan
imati fiks ideju, opsesiju
koji zapanjuje, velianstven, silan, golem
tajanstven, ezoterian
delikatesna radnja
s uitkom
buno veselje, obijesna zabava, divljanje
biti maher
golem, divovski
istisnuti, zamijeniti, uiniti bespredmetnim
presudan
gungula galama
nesuvisao, nepovezan
estok, vatren
derati se, urlati
izuzev
snaan, neobino zanimljiv
fijuknuti
prastar
zupanje
lijeb, brazda, utor, udubljenje
pukotina
14
amiss
scrape
disquiet
onslaught
have come to endure
progenitor
begetter
trickle
creeping nausea
twinge
swings him up
commodity dealing
cot
furtively
reverts to infancy
murmurs reassurances
sifts
knob of a chair back
cable-knit sweather
far too considered a garment for
Maurice
feral
excruciating detail
tilt quizzical look
eyes screwed up
mansion
to stow Luke
to arbitrate
panders toa need
hovel
engulf her small face
plushy furniture
mosey around
to have a ball
a buil-in invitation
complacent
sweep of steps
sidle away
sales pitch
national trust
with relish
a deferential smile
elaborate pieces
drifting population
oak fruit and foliage
hijacked
willy nilly
midlands
dived off
swathe
staffordshire dogs
game birds
draped across
swags of greenery
stippling
bony surface of a foot
substantial
wasp
implications
squemish
sanitazed violence
floating garments
fleeing stag
smart pace
codes of classical mythology
reference system
obscurity
potter around
eqaubly
patrol
Yew
balustrade
screen further enclosures
bearings
Bulrush
clumps
pond skaters
coasting
leans up against him
sick to the stomach
quivering experience
stoops
agresija
praotac
kapanje
polagan
otra bol, probadanje
ruka, drka
divlji
bolan, muan
izrei presudu
svodi se na
kolibica
progutati, preplaviti
otmjen, raskoan
vui se, bazati
zabavljati se
zaveljaji
gadljiv, preosjetljiv
proieno
jelen u bijegu
hitar, ustar
jednolino, mirno
Tisa
ograda, balustrada
Rogoz
busenje
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frog
toad
benign place
uncompromising
unflinching
compunction
unnerving
lectureship
pulls a face that implies shame
perplexity
take your pick
susceptible
tentatively strokes
clasping his forehead
her face is alight
this treat doesn't often come her way
smoulder
dragonfly
stowed away in the head
tuneless chant
jumled mumbled words
the man of the moment
having himself a ball
sabbatical
to have a chair
literal-minded
dote on you
vice-chancellor office
Chapter 10
blow-torch
unfashionable
distinct
the fantasy helps you suspend belief
quibble
sweated my guts out over that bit
in the fullness of time
to give a hang about
sternly
killing off the lady
out of the question
relevance
to raise objections
copy editor
nuts and bolts
mainstream
devotees
chopping and changing
weaves his way
lichen-covered fence posts
a set-aside
flaring oilseed rape
congenial
painter is at work
legendary
a news item in its own right
toppling records
incipient drought
monochrome
basking sharks
sky starts to drain
crossbar
inched ahead
infant time
spun out into an interminable now
stalking pastin the thick of it
helter-skelter
sudden dashes up to london
unexplained sorties
a conference he must sample
orderly and a contemplative affair
misguided
bounded
turbulence
posses
stern-faced ozbiljnih lica
keen interest in
entrancing world of outrage
reliable anchorage
sustenance and recuperation
breeze in
nepokolobljiv, neustraiv
obeshrabrujui
osjetljiv, osjeajan
letlampa
pristalice, ljubitelji
lichen-liaj
/laikn/
srodan
poetna
jednobojan
poprena motka
exhuberant
whoop it up
petulant
aggrieved
proprietorial
errant
the boot is on the other foot
I do not press the point
self-regarding
enterpreneurial
clever and stimulating
upper hand
defuse me with a word or a look
have a picnic up on the downs
averse
contrite
propitiate
unsteadies
in attendance
alert
breather
pecks
ping and shunt
rasp of insects
patron
up and coming
constituency of patronage
by extension
bovine
patently
uneasy
relentless diary
vivacious company
sun-dazed house
stalit evenings
churlish
gregarious
convivial
rubbing his ideas up against those of
otehrs
on familiar terms with everyone
misgiving
exempt-poteena, osloboena
admittedly striking
coiled platinum hair
greight of gold chains
uproariously
hoot
opaque
sunbathing on a lilo
bobs out of the water
impersonal scrutiny
he leads you a dance
towelling robe
shagy
phlox elbowed
goosegrass
bindweed
to curb and control the garden
awed by its tenacity
indiscriminate
sulky winter detritus
blackened leaf mould
to make much of a mark upon this
dilletante affair
fringes of rampant growth
speculatively
shuffled pack of images
skewed and incommunicable vision
shuttered look
housing upgrade
threat of mince
clinging to the scarf (smell)
miasma
as it happens
impelled
engagement diary
cryptic
squiggle
confrontation is self-defeating
evasive
failing accuser
17
it is beautifully done
in a quandary
urges
havers
u dilemi
Chapter 11
she smiles, after a fashion
crummy
landscape is simering
field quivering in a heat haze
cataclysmic thunderstorms
desolation
he had designs on the lady himself
hamming it up
stop that racket
bang goes nother endangered
species
snatch up
fling her in his horse
fortuitously
chilling pursuit
sorcerer
ambivalent motives
amusement arcades
unswerving irrestble romantic love to
die for
insuperable difficulties
searching
dalliance
obliging wood sprites
riff- raff
drifting into a liason
fetching witch
someone on hand
rolled into one
acquiescence
sanctimonious
dulfed up
written off
lucrative adventure holiday tourism
agency
opinionated
arts-and-leisure complex
clammy changing room
training pool
pullulates
heaving blue water
fickle universe
dry becomes wet becomes warm
becomes cold
trashing limbs
dimpled
they were a credential
conferring upon your genetic
respectability
unsettled
reassuringly conventional
to revel
demonstrably
exaltation
complacent vision
brushed aside
took cover
pop out and see
pained regret
be found wanting
consorting
pinched look
malign reef of guilt
chagrin
rapacios so-and-so
plunged in private malaise
awry
having it off
wood sprites
equivalent right, left and centre
delves
holdall
grow out of people
housebraker
besotted
make tracks
18
cropped up
tipsy
obscenity
connoisseur
treatise
disquisition
degree course
uninitiated upon the way
churning
plunge
honed
casserole
vehement cook
hostage to fortune
by rights
slab of meat
thick pelt
comes off
expounds
overtures
working knowledge
mull over the matter
tot of whiskey
pursue the matter
light soaks away
helping
zaps
airwaves
wedge of darkness
deals her the maurice smile
sizzling stars
Chapter 12
museum of rural life
remorselessly
itinerary
acquisced
complaint
driven to be
county town
earns its keep
attendant
town stocks
scrupulously
gothic script
per se
sub-text
stalks
curled lip
flails
scythes
sickles
fascimile
churns
creamers
quaintly
inscrutable
guilty apology
tactfully instructive
hectored
tempers information
enclosure
fallow land
enclosure acts
rural discontent
grainly
smallish
metalware
working desperately at apparent
detachment
man-traps
argument for retaining
insouciance
jagged teeth
hapless
rigidly controlled distress
disembodied presence of luke
in fine fettle
even-handed
an aside
makes much of pauline
propitiating
19
trundle
settling
look the part
properly got up
subtract the designer t-shirt
fetching blue
fifty-quid haircut
grime
calloused fingers
buttery look
how did it grab you?
tripe
dismissive
rickets
festering injuries
grinding labour
would it be insensitive to claim the last
helping of casserole
cosmetic excercise
plaintive cry
wail
over and done with
discomfort
endorsement
generate
poteries
larder
dresser
he is brought up shprt by the edge to
her voice
wariness
chese is passed around
the room is littered with the debris of
eating
convivial
egreeably blurred with wine
embarked upon
nasty pile-up
conjectures
remission
shivers for her
get yourself unblocked
dourly
a shot across the bows
half-way up the welsh mountain
piteous phone calls
he is all set to come
blithely
rattling
pothholes
paean of praise hvalospjev
exulting
unfetterd spiel
mind at ease
pinched
unmemorable look
arresting
hideous-odvratan, gadan
enforced complicity
spinning
enactment
waking fantasies of horror
jolt herself free
contingency
malevolence
stalking out
has had a ahnd
poles apart
falls silent
dip down
sheds
a car sitting at the end ogf the track
beat-up vehicles that ply daily past
world's end
stench comes rolling
rank and thick
cavern
swirls
feed hoppers
inert heaps of fluff
slings into a bucket
laconically
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all but
a spot of bother
see to thinggs
rougher and deeper tide
surges around the feed hoppers
crate up
beatrix potter
snide
seething mass of chicks
bug-eyed
tikka masala
coq au vin
sally henny penny
tandoori chicken
teresa looks put out
churlishly clouding
sweeps it aside
hint of a snub
flowing wheat
maurice is high with well-being
brims with private satisfaction
ostensibly
pig-tailed
stick-limbed
exploratory finger
Chapter 13
She is minding Luke
Erratic progress
orchard prairie
unstable as a home movie
rocking and swaying
to clout you to the ground
furnished with wonders
preconceptions
swoops
lumbers
matters with desperate intensity
shrieks with joy
termed
tiresomness
infected
expediency
flinches
on the ropes
straightforward
rams herself
has forced its ugly way
she watches pauline with alarm
machine writtes on
in abeyance
ticking over
executors' sale
clutch of books
mint condition
prowling
cock-a-hoop
piece of work
proceeds, n. pl
the knock.on effect
unearned spree
interfere with other people's books
seize the day
exchange of civilities
decency requires
surly
revs up
grinds the gears
bangs away up the track
chronicles of mayhem
joyriders
incinerated in car smashes
dutch barns
heaves with unrest
wilted lettuce
knifing
effluent
cycling trip
relays some professional chat
holed up down there
taken up
rolling flank of the hill
to seeth-vrvjeti
21
brittle attempts
inconsequential stuff
square
breakthrough
promising noises
a bit fazed about that
in hand
surgery
with things looking up a bit
suffice it that
communal evening meal
plead a headache
queasy glance
rigours
inexorable
enviable system
rural fayre
steam rally
apple tart
reprovingly
dew-picked
leading me on
consideratly smoking out of doors
entwined
the look that blazes
a blue stare
bland declaration of hostilities
scoured look
petulant minutes
flowerbed
thimping
dully
well off
set of a mouth
flavour of the glance
adolescent gloom
intermittently
inordinate interest
recaptured
apprehension
briskly
spectral
entertained this notion
downs
tortuous
token attention
diversions
departures
grinding concern
contingent events
laid waste
chunks
cut adrift
cut our losses
penchant, n
tactful
perplexed
unendurable
thrown by these disclosures
moves off
you don't need to pick your way through
a minefield
moving this ifnormation around, trying it
for size
swarms up
the place is in suspension
airless dusk
circumlocution
sloiti, uskladiti
neumoljiv
na mahove, isprekidano
opustoilo
sklonost
Chapter 15
disarrayed
on the cards
perk me up
despairing woman
inescapable neurosis
millstone
teether
adrift
switch my appointment
confronts
he has to bounce to and fro
the summer of isolationa nd application
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juggling
wrenched
jerky grasp
carved up
the village shop does not rise to a4 paper
foot of the stairs
furtive smile
wad of paper
dismissive
smoulder
steeply raked flight of stairs
flare of stairs
propitiation
level-headed
disillusion
pulverized
thrashing away
towing trailer-loads
sweep with shafts of light
caravan-towing cars
statutory exchange
disgruntled
ec
conceivably
slams
mutual recognition
non-hostility
in the thick of
decencies
on bail for assault
as it happens
profound distress
is about to suffer
connoisseur
conspiratorial warmth
all at sixes and sevens
organ music
perks up
platitudes
people in question
a smoothly gift-wrapped occasion
rummaging
a whole woman
mellow fruitfulness
to inch
thickened
rumours of rain
to topple
have a row
ramrod stiff
a knot of distress
ill-temper
tentatively
a deft combination
she probes and prods for reaction
in the slightest twing of compunction
flicker of guilt
oblige him
fluries of dust scud along the track
out of sorts
rash
in attendance upon
machine is bleeping
at a rent
over and beyond the call of duty
nuts and bolts
mainstream
scurrying thought
fluff
incidentally
he implies
dissilusion
stalking
polako se kretati
prevrnuti (se), sruiti (se)
mnotvo, poplava
Chapter 16
topographical literature
fervent display
emollient language
dapper
self-effacing
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patently attached to
amanuensis
she is always at his elbow with deft
reminders
new awareness
subdued
clicks away
i'm going to turn into an old soak
a treat
how obtuse of me
dossing down
he seems ambushed by this new freedom
of choice
dismembering
a bouncing extrovert
woodshed
an adequate insufficiency
to all intents and purposes
saltimbocca
shrill pulse of a car-alarm
ill-feeling
shroud of mystery
he seems to be surfasing
burn a tentative page or two
jolly
it must be seen out now
come what may
buff plumes
candelabra of hogweed
sweeps of golden stubble
tipping back glasses
jaunt hot and whingey
preempting
quacks away
spills into
volatility
illuminations
vibrancy
wham!
devastating form of pneumonia
sleepless incarceration
megalomaniacs
he sounds guarded
you are on your own now
baldly
icy fist in her guts
reprovingly
censorious
snaps, v
out of character
posse of woman
un-persons
Chapter 17
thump-tump
fall to the combine
tenacre
shrivelled head of wheat
coupled with
hose-pipe bans
parched reservoirs
puline's orbit
anodyne, inconsequential remark
bout of ill will
the days unfurl
tight, tense days
taut
indexer
sweltering
got a whiff of it
pungent
derailed
merciful dispensation
in the fulness of time
more his weight
unhinged
versatility of speech
stubble
monolithic presences
bemusement
snort, stifled explosion
shrewish
25
edgy
glimmer
cringe
buckle to
stifling
dull
opaque
scattered thunderstorms
the sky growls
the strom circles the valley
tumultuously
the sky splits-prolama se
clap of thunder
hail
obliterating white
sheet lightning
frok lightning
lights flicker and go out
lurches
marauder
giving the cold shoulder
freezing me out
powered by anger
pitches
inquest
bugger
cropper
to get shot of it
god-awful
to sew it up
wedge of hair
malaise
subsume
reticense
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