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Chapter II
"If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus? Ugh! I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades. Lord, how I'd run from them!" The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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later than; following
From this reading “"If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “"If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?”
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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 "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
later than; following
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Lord, how I'd run from them!"
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading Lord, how I'd run from them!"
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading Lord, how I'd run from them!"
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
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From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Lord, how I'd run from them!"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I'd run to the nethermost ends of Hades.
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From this reading Ugh!
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The manservant gave us roast mutton, and Lady Lathkill and the Colonel chestnuts in sauce.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
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From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
in the company of; together with
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading "If I were dead, would I be honoured if a great, steamy wet crowd came after me with soppy chrysanthemums and prickly laurestinus?
