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Chapter X
But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in. The Colonel rushed at them with a shout. Mrs Dare jumped up. And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place. “Well, well, well!--Mr and Mrs Luard!
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From this reading ““Well, well, well!--Mr and Mrs Luard!”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The Colonel rushed at them with a shout.
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From this reading And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading The Colonel rushed at them with a shout.
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From this reading Mrs Dare jumped up.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading Mrs Dare jumped up.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading The Colonel rushed at them with a shout.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading The Colonel rushed at them with a shout.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The Colonel rushed at them with a shout.
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From this reading Mrs Dare jumped up.
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From this reading And Auntie Mitt almost upset the tea-table into the fire-place.
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From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
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From this reading “Well, well, well!--Mr and Mrs Luard!
in the company of; together with
From this reading But the door opened and disclosed the maid’s face all alight with excitement as she announced with a jerk, “Please, ma’am,--Sir Anthony,--Mr and Mrs Luard!” and Ray and Lois walked in.
