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Chapter XXVI
Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way. With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair. Her arduous function solely “to be there.” Like Sirius rising o’er the silent sea. She hides her heart in lustre loftily.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading Her arduous function solely “to be there.”
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Her arduous function solely “to be there.”
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From this reading Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way.
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From this reading Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way.
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading Her arduous function solely “to be there.”
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From this reading She hides her heart in lustre loftily.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Her arduous function solely “to be there.”
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From this reading She hides her heart in lustre loftily.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading She hides her heart in lustre loftily.
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way.
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From this reading Like Sirius rising o’er the silent sea.
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From this reading She hides her heart in lustre loftily.
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From this reading She hides her heart in lustre loftily.
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way.
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From this reading Like Sirius rising o’er the silent sea.
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading Like Sirius rising o’er the silent sea.
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From this reading Like Sirius rising o’er the silent sea.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading Like Sirius rising o’er the silent sea.
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From this reading Like Sirius rising o’er the silent sea.
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From this reading Her arduous function solely “to be there.”
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way.
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way.
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From this reading Her arduous function solely “to be there.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Her arduous function solely “to be there.”
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From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
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From this reading Behold my lady’s carriage stop the way.
in the company of; together with
From this reading With powdered lacquey and with charming bay; She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair.
