Notes

Definitions/Sentence in book
3Exuberance -
"There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas."
3Propriety -
"...Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself."
3Cortege -
"...; and the result had been a furious altercation, which, continuing all the way down Ashland Avenue, had added a new swarm of urchins to the cortege at each side street for half a mile."
5Hubbub -
"In the corner to the left are the three musicians, upon a little platform, toiling heroically to make some impression upon the hubbub..."
5Imbibes -
"...; also the babies, similarly occupied, and an open window whence the populace imbibes the sights and sounds and odors."
6Frenetically -
"You can feel them in the air round about him, capering frenetically;..."
7Lugubrious -
"He is playing a bass part upon his 'cello, and so the excitement is nothing to him; no matter what happens in the treble, it is his task to saw out on long-drawn and lugubrious note after another,..."
11Seraphically -
"...but they stand in the middle of the floor, holding each other fast in their arms, rocking slowly from side to side and grinning seraphically...."
18Maudlin -
"Some stagger about in each other's arms, whispering maudlin words-others start quarrels upon the slightest pretext, and come to blows and have to be pulled apart."
127Superfluity -
"It was a summer of prosperity, all over the country, and the country ate generously of packing-house products, and there was plenty of work for all the family, in spite of the packers' efforts to keep a superfluity of labor."
134Allurements -
"There was surely a saloon on the corner-perhaps on all four corners, and some in the middle of the block as well; and each one stretched out a hand to him-each one had a personality of its own, allurements unlike any other."
137Pittance -
"There was no choice about this-whatever work there was to be done they had to do, if they wished to keep their places; besides that, it added another pittance ot their incomes."
199Incandescent -
"Incandescent rainbows shone above it, blue, red, and golden lights played about it; but the stream itself was white; ineffable."
261Arbitration -
"They made an offer to submit the whole question at issue to arbitration; and at the end of ten days the unions accepted it, and the strike was called off. "
293Ostentation -
"Their life is a contest among themselves for supremacy in ostentation and recklessness, in the destroying of useful and necessary things, in the wasting of the labor and the lives of their fellows-creatures the toil and anguish of the nations, the sweat and tears and blood of the human race!"