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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
actual
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
All
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
always
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
ancients
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
astounding
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
Balzac
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
Barnum
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
became
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
begannounUS /began/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
begin
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
book-counters
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
booksnounUS /bʊks/
Bound written or printed works.
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
broughtnounUS /ˈbrought/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
campaign
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
celebrity
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
character
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
cities
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
Comstock
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Confessions
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
continuednounUS /ˈcontinued/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
copiously
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
coursenounUS /course/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Damnation
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
Daudet
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
Decameron
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
defenders
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
designed
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
disposednounUS /ˈdisposed/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
doings
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
down
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
drawn
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
driven
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
ecstatic
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
effectiveness
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
eighties
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
enterprise
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
enterprises
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
eventually
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
expurgating
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
extra
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
feverishly
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
fiction
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
firmly
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
foreign
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
frankly
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Frederic's
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
handsplural nounUS /hændz/
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
hardly
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
Hardy's
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
Harold
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Havingauxiliary verbUS /ˈhævɪŋ/
the -ing form of “have”
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
hazardous
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Imitators
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
increasing
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
John
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
Jude
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
knew
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
L
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
land
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
larger
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
laws
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
library
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
LifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
limits
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Maria
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
Monk
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
national
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
new
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
newspapers
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
Night
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
nineties
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
Obscure
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
once
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
Ostensibly
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
other
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
P
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
Paris
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
particularly
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
pictures
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
pogrom
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
pornographic
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
pounced
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
public
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
publication
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
put
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Rabelais
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
reported
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
saddle
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
said
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
scarcely
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
shelvesnounUS /ʃelvz/
Plural of shelf; the vast wooden or stone structures holding archives.
From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
sprang
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
Sullivan
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
sweep
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
T
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From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
there
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
Theron
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
Thomas
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Comstock became a national celebrity; his doings were as copiously reported by the newspapers as those of P. T. Barnum or John L. Sullivan.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
too
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
tooknounUS /took/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
traffic
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
turned
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
up
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From this reading Imitators sprang up in all the larger cities: there was hardly a public library in the land that did not begin feverishly expurgating its shelves; the publication of fiction, and particularly of foreign fiction, took on the character of an extra hazardous enterprise.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
vastly
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
victims
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
violence
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From this reading All through the eighties and nineties this ecstatic campaign continued, always increasing in violence and effectiveness.
Ware
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
wider
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From this reading Ostensibly, as I have said, the new laws were designed to put down the traffic in frankly pornographic books and pictures--a traffic which, of course, found no defenders--but Comstock had so drawn them that their actual sweep was vastly wider, and once he was firmly in the saddle his enterprises scarcely knew limits.
Zola
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From this reading Having disposed of "The Confessions of Maria Monk" and "Night Life in Paris," he turned to Rabelais and the Decameron, and having driven these ancients under the book-counters, he pounced upon Zola, Balzac and Daudet, and having disposed of these too, he began a _pogrom_ which, in other hands, eventually brought down such astounding victims as Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" and Harold Frederic's "The Damnation of Theron Ware."
