Short Book of Goon?

Usage examples of eccles.

The thought flits through his brain that Eccles is known as a fag and he has become the new pet.

As he and Eccles walk together toward the first tee he feels dragged down, lame.

It seems to Eccles that he himselfwas this way as a boy, always giving and giving and always being suddenly swamped.

And for Eccles there is an additional hope, a secret detennination to trounce Harry.

His continuing to stand puts Eccles in a petitionary position, sitting on the bench like a choirboy.

Reverend Eccles has told you, but my situation has kind of changed and I have to take another job.

And Eccles has told him that her company was a great comfort to Janice during the trying period now past.

All the while he is trying to understand Eccles he is rereading this word, trying to see where it breaks, wondering if it can be pronounced.

With a trace ofboyish bad temper Eccles pulls over and stops in front of a fire hydrant.

When Eccles turns to Harry to guffaw conspiratorially after this dig, bitterness cripples his laugh, turns his lips in tightly, so his small jawed head shows its teeth like a skull.

In avoiding looking at Eccles he looks at the ball, which sits high on the tee and already seems free of the ground.

She gently lowers herself onto the cushions of the porch glider and startles Eccles by kicking up her legs as, with a squeak and sharp sway, the glider takes her weight.

In worming against her warmth he has pulled her dress up from her knees, and their repulsive breadth and pallor, laid bare defenselessly, superimposed upon the tiny, gamely gritted teeth the boy exposed for him, this old whiteness strained through this fine mesh, make a milk that feels to Eccles like his own blood.

Their rapport at moments attains for Eccles a pitch of pleasure, a harmless ecstasy, that makes the world with its vicious circumstantiality seem remote and spherical and green.

Rabbit stands up on ankles of air and Eccles comes over with that familiar frown in his eyebrows.