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Chapter VII
* * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative. I leave it to the judgment of women and of men. Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted? Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes? Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
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left a place or vessel without intending to return
From this reading “Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?”
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From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
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at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
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From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
left a place or vessel without intending to return
From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
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From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
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From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
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From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
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From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
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From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
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From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
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From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
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From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
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From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
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From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
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belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
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From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
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From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
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From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
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From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
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From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
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From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
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From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
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From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
