A Sheaf of Corn

by Mary E. Mann · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 · 4,596 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: England — Social life and customs — Fiction

Words worth knowing: teacup · spree · rinse · donor · critter · unopened · deathbed · confidante

She was a strong, wholesome-looking woman of three- or four-and-forty, with a clean, red skin, clear eyes, dark hair, crinkling crisply beneath her sober, respectable hat.

All her clothes were sober and respectable, and her whole mien.

No one would have guessed from it that she had not a shred of character to her back.

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