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Chapter VIII
Now are they hand to hand! How short a front! How close! _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight. That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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from one side of something to the other
From this reading “_They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Now are they hand to hand!”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “_They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.”
above and across; more than
From this reading “_They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.”
brief or direct in expression
From this reading “How short a front!”
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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 How short a front!
from one side of something to the other
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Now are they hand to hand!
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading How close!
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading How short a front!
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading Now are they hand to hand!
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From this reading How short a front!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading Now are they hand to hand!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
above and across; more than
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
brief or direct in expression
From this reading How short a front!
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Now are they hand to hand!
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Now are they hand to hand!
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From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
which person or people
From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
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From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
in the company of; together with
From this reading _They're sewn together with steel cross-stitches, halbert over sword,_ _Spear across lance and death the purfled seam!_ I never saw so fierce, so lock'd a fight.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading That tireless brand that like a pliant flail Threshes the lives from sheaves of Englishmen-- Know you who wields it?
