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Chapter XIII
A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition. A convulsive tremor crept over her frame. She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture. “Keep back! keep back!” she shrieked.
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the inner sense of right and wrong
From this reading “A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.”
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading “She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.”
above and across; more than
From this reading “A convulsive tremor crept over her frame.”
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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 A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
the inner sense of right and wrong
From this reading A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
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From this reading A convulsive tremor crept over her frame.
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From this reading A convulsive tremor crept over her frame.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading A convulsive tremor crept over her frame.
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From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading A convulsive tremor crept over her frame.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading “Keep back! keep back!” she shrieked.
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From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
above and across; more than
From this reading A convulsive tremor crept over her frame.
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From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
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From this reading “Keep back! keep back!” she shrieked.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
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From this reading A convulsive tremor crept over her frame.
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From this reading Rosamond Raleigh’s blue eyes grew black as night as they stared in wildest terror into the face of the apparition.
in the company of; together with
From this reading She fell back a few paces and lifted her hands with a maddened gesture.
