I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring. So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right. There warn’t a sound anywheres. I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs. The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
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inflected form of “creep” — move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
From this reading “I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.”
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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 There warn’t a sound anywheres.
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From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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From this reading There warn’t a sound anywheres.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
the two together, not just one
From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
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From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
inflected form of “creep” — move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
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From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
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From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
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From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
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From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
an old-fashioned sitting room
From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
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From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
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From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
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From this reading There warn’t a sound anywheres.
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From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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From this reading There warn’t a sound anywheres.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
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From this reading So I tiptoed along, and got down stairs all right.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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From this reading There warn’t a sound anywheres.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring.
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From this reading I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse all sound asleep on their chairs.
in or at the place that
From this reading The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
