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Chapter V
The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility. “So you've been lost! And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother. Ain't that luck for you? Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
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the past participle of “be”
From this reading ““So you've been lost!”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.”
To move from a closed position.
From this reading “The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.”
above and across; more than
From this reading “Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?”
up to a particular time
From this reading “Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?”
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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 The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading Ain't that luck for you?
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From this reading Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
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From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading “So you've been lost!
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From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
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From this reading Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Ain't that luck for you?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
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From this reading “So you've been lost!
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From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
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From this reading Ain't that luck for you?
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
above and across; more than
From this reading Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
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From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “So you've been lost!
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From this reading Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Ain't that luck for you?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
up to a particular time
From this reading Hunted all over Texas till you found him, eh?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
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From this reading The snarl gave way slowly to a grim more malign than his open hostility.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Ain't that luck for you?
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From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
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From this reading “So you've been lost!
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading And now you're found--come safe back to your loving brother.
