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Chapter I
AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC. “What’s your handle, stranger?” 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.” 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.” 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
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From this reading “AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.”
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”
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From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
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From this reading 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
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From this reading “What’s your handle, stranger?”
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
moving to the inside of something
From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
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From this reading 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”
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From this reading 61 “Looking back saw a host of savage forms.”
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From this reading 41 “Gave a snort of alarm and plunged headlong away into the droves.”
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From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
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From this reading “What’s your handle, stranger?”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading AUTHOR OF “NATHAN TODD,” “LIFE OF PONTIAC, THE CONSPIRATOR,” “LAND OF MYSTERY,” ETC.
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From this reading “What’s your handle, stranger?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
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From this reading 79 “In the stern, with a guiding oar, sat a young female.”
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “What’s your handle, stranger?”
