Thesaurus

downstairs: ( adv) beneath, below,

uncultured.

measure, despair, doubt, speculate.

underneath, down the stairs,

henry: ( n) physicist, scag, smack,

surprising: ( adj, n) marvelous, strange,

downward, infra, at a lower place,

William Henry, horse,

incredible; ( adj) amazing, remarkable,

downhill, on a lower floor; ( adj)

diacetylmorphine, Patrick Henry,

wonderful, shocking, extraordinary,

downstair; ( n) floor. ANTONYMS:

Joseph Henry.

striking, unusual; ( adj, v) startling.

( adj, adv) upstairs.

lowering: ( adj) heavy, dismal, gloomy, ANTONYMS: ( adj) predictable, finished: ( adj, adv) ended, completed;

threatening, dark, glum, murky; ( n)

comforting, ordinary, normal,

( adj) complete, consummate,

fall, drop, cut, decline.

unremarkable.

absolute, accomplished, ruined,

suppose: ( v) infer, guess, speculate,

telephone: ( v) call, ring, call up, give a

spent, ripe, polished; ( adj, v) done.

divine, presume, conjecture, reckon,

call, wireless telephone; ( n, v)

ANTONYMS: ( adj) incomplete,

imagine, estimate, consider, assume.

telegraph; ( n) telephony, earpiece,

remaining, rough, leftover,

ANTONYMS: ( v) disbelieve, know,

radiophone, radiotelephone, handset.

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Pygmalion

THE PARLOR-MAID.

Yes, mam [going].%

MRS. HIGGINS.

Go upstairs and tell Miss Doolittle that Mr. Henry and the Colonel are here.

Ask her not to come down till I send for her.

THE PARLOR-MAID.

Yes, mam.

[HIGGINS bursts in. He is, as the parlor-maid has said, in a state.]

HIGGINS.

Look here, mother: here's a confounded thing!

MRS. HIGGINS.

Yes, dear. Good-morning. [He checks his impatience and kisses her, whilst the parlor-maid goes out]. What is it?

HIGGINS.

Eliza's bolted.

MRS. HIGGINS

[calmly continuing her writing] You must have frightened her.

HIGGINS.

Frightened her! nonsense! She was left last night, as usual, to turn out the lights and all that; and instead of going to bed she changed her clothes and went right off: her bed wasn't slept in. She came in a cab for her things before seven this morning; and that fool Mrs. Pearce let her have them without telling me a word about it. What am I to do?

MRS. HIGGINS.

Do without, I'm afraid, Henry. The girl has a perfect right to leave if she chooses.

HIGGINS

[wandering distractedly across the room] But I can't find anything. I don't Thesaurus

bolted: ( adj) barred, Bolten, secured,

idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; ( v) deceive, enthusiasm, edginess; ( adj) firm, barricaded, blockaded, bolted

bamboozle; ( n, v) joke, gull.

nonendurance. ANTONYMS: ( n)

attachment, fast, fastened, latched,

ANTONYM: ( n) savant.

calmness, endurance, apathy.

tight.

frightened: ( adj) fearful, timid,

till: ( conj, prep) until, unto; ( v) plow, checks: ( n) dibs, cent.

startled, terrified, scared, alarmed,

hoe, farm, dig; ( adj) up to; ( n) tiller,

distractedly: ( adj, adv) madly; ( adv)

anxious, apprehensive, horrified,

drawer; ( adv) so far; ( prep) to.

distraughtly, frantically, frenziedly,

intimidated, restless. ANTONYMS:

upstairs: ( adj) upstair; ( adv) on a

wildly, forgetfully, absentmindedly,

( adj) unimpressed, confident, brave,

higher floor, in the mind, in the head,

inattentively, vaguely, confusedly,

fearless, reassured.

up the stairs, over; ( n) heaven,

preoccupiedly. ANTONYM: ( adv)

impatience: ( n) annoyance, eagerness, administration, authority, board, calmly.

anger, intolerance, restlessness,

eternity. ANTONYMS: ( adj, adv)

fool: ( n) blockhead, dunce, clown,

fidget, nervousness, fidgetiness,

downstairs.

George Bernard Shaw

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know what appointments I've got. I'm-- [PICKERING comes in. Mrs. Higgins puts down her pen and turns away from the writing-table].%

PICKERING

[shaking hands] Good-morning, Mrs. Higgins. Has Henry told you? [He sits down on the ottoman].

HIGGINS.

What does that ass of an inspector say? Have you offered a reward?

MRS. HIGGINS

[rising in indignant amazement] You don't mean to say you have set the police after Eliza?

HIGGINS.

Of course. What are the police for? What else could we do? [He sits in the Elizabethan chair].

PICKERING.

The inspector made a lot of difficulties. I really think he suspected us of some improper purpose.

MRS. HIGGINS.

Well, of course he did. What right have you to go to the police and give the girl's name as if she were a thief, or a lost umbrella, or something? Really!

[She sits down again, deeply vexed].

HIGGINS.

But we want to find her.

PICKERING.

We can't let her go like this, you know, Mrs. Higgins. What were we to do?

MRS. HIGGINS.

You have no more sense, either of you, than two children.

Why--

[The PARLOR-MAID comes in and breaks off the conversation.]