Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

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The absence had created a strangeness, an incipient, self-fulfilling distance between us that I didn't know how to confront.

Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.312 (2005)

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Okonkwo's first son, Nwoye, was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness.

Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart, p.13 (1958)

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‘Let me go to bed, then,’ answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine’s salute; and he put his fingers to remove incipient tears.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Weariness was written on Kamala's beautiful face, weariness from continuing a long path which had no joyous goal, weariness and incipient old age,

Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Translated by Hilda Rosner), p.81 (1951)