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Chapter IV
“Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.” “Horrors! Do you mean that she is _mannish_?” “No, not mannish. And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.
truthful and trustworthy
From this reading ““Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.””
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading ““Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.””
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.””
but in spite of that
From this reading “And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.””
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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 And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading “Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.”
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading “Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.”
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From this reading “Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Do you mean that she is _mannish_?”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
truthful and trustworthy
From this reading “Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.”
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From this reading “Horrors!
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Do you mean that she is _mannish_?”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading Do you mean that she is _mannish_?”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading Do you mean that she is _mannish_?”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
not any; not one
From this reading “No, not mannish.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “No, not mannish.
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Do you mean that she is _mannish_?”
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From this reading “Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.”
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Do you mean that she is _mannish_?”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
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From this reading “Well, honest, single, common-sense, coherent, arithmetical.”
at the time that
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
in the company of; together with
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
but in spite of that
From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Do you mean that she is _mannish_?”
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From this reading And yet she gave me the notion that, when it came to companionship, she would be just as well satisfied with a lot of girls as young men.”
