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Chapter XVI
“It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.” “It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver. “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter. They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils. They are arbitrary and unjust and dogmatic and brutish and lustful.”
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading ““It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver.”
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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 “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.”
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From this reading “It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
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From this reading “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.”
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From this reading They are arbitrary and unjust and dogmatic and brutish and lustful.”
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
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From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are arbitrary and unjust and dogmatic and brutish and lustful.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are arbitrary and unjust and dogmatic and brutish and lustful.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are arbitrary and unjust and dogmatic and brutish and lustful.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver.
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From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
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From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading They are blinded to all fine and subtle things--they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They are arbitrary and unjust and dogmatic and brutish and lustful.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.”
in the company of; together with
From this reading “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter.
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From this reading “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica--“a vegetable.”
