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Chapter IV
And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized. "They don't see a thing!" she said. "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there! Inside, I mean." Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
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surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading “"The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.”
a thing, without saying which
From this reading “Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"They don't see a thing!" she said.”
but in spite of that
From this reading “And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.”
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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 And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
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From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
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From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading "They don't see a thing!" she said.
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From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
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From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
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From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Inside, I mean."
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From this reading Inside, I mean."
an important story-specific word used in this passage
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From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
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From this reading Inside, I mean."
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From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
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From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
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From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading "They don't see a thing!" she said.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
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From this reading "They don't see a thing!" she said.
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From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "They don't see a thing!" she said.
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From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
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From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
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From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "They don't see a thing!" she said.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "They don't see a thing!" she said.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
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From this reading Yet at that very moment a young man was seeing something inside a girl's house a little way down that same street.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
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From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
in the company of; together with
From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
but in spite of that
From this reading And his wife complemented this with a generalization, simple, yet of a significance too little recognized.
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From this reading "The young men that buzz around a girl's house don't see a _thing_ of what goes on there!
