Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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Well, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering. We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.”
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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 Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
not any; not one
From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
used when we are both doing the action and receiving it
From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
