Across
- 2. to shake or agitate violently; To Convulse
- 5. Uncertain; hesitant
- 6. compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build
- 7. " Maybe he was my several times great grandfather, but still vaguely alive in the memory of my family beacause his daughter had brought a large bible in an ornately carvd, wooden chest and had begun keeping family records in it."
- 10. Giving no sign of feeling or emotion.
- 11. "The place, the time would either kill him outright or mark him somehow."
- 13. "A woman to watch over him in a society that considered woman perennial children"
- 15. "Her husband ay have stopped her from throwing me out of the house, but he hadn't stopped her from becoming a worse nuisance that ever" (98).
- 16. A floor covering made by laying on a burlap or canvas backing a mixture of solidified linseed oil with gums, cork dust or wood flour or both, and usually pigments
- 17. a book of maps or charts.
- 18. To spread by scattering
Down
- 1. Obstinate in opposing what is right, reasonable, or accepted
- 3. In a way that shows you are not careful to avoid upsetting someone.
- 4. the two-hundredth anniversary of a significant event.
- 6. petty ill will or hatred with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart.
- 8. "Most of the remnants of the draperies were cold."
- 9. to walk towards or away from someone, trying not to be noticed
- 12. "that woman is priming herself for a nervous breakdown"(83)
- 14. "This was an era of rampant disease"