Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels

"Energy and curiousity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university and it is a channelling of that unresting curiousity that holds mankind together." (86-7)

"God's a rum old joker, Clem, and we must never forget it." (101)

Words
Sorn (v)
Hypotyposis
Magus
Adiposity
Pneumatic
Hetaera
Craven
Salutary
Quoin
Warren
Threnody
Meccano
Luthier
Saturnine

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom. (34)

The one indispensible answer to an environment bristling with people and things one thought were bad was to go on finding out new ways in which one could think they were bad. (129)

Words
Fulsome
Florid
Temporize
Vole
Vertiginous
Objurgatory
Plangency
Invigilate

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...

Words
Aleatory
Quire
Aubergine
Acidulous
Rowan
Autochthonous
Hygrometer
Anemometer
Pluviometer
Escarpment
Relict
Belvedere
Chiaroscuro
Viscera
Afflatus
Cockade
Lazaretto
Postulant
Ramified
Peregrinations
Petroliferous