The Idiot vocabulary

“Lena, you’re really extraordinary,” Harold said after six months of dinners, five months of post-prandial lovemaking, and one week of timid and silly love confessions.

Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club (1989)

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He did not finish his sentence, for at this moment Ferdishenko pushed a chair up from behind, and the general, not very firm on his legs, at this post-prandial hour, flopped into it backwards. It was always a difficult thing to put this warrior to confusion, and his sudden descent left him as composed as before.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)