Chapter I

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

(usually followed by “to”) having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

higher than, or over, something

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

plural of “account” — a record or narrative description of past events

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

under a curse

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a vaguely specified concern

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

with affection

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the part of the day between noon and evening

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

surrounded by; in the middle of a group

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

towards the shore from the water

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

surprising greatly

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a native or inhabitant of Australia

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a vagrant living on a beach

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

after the expected or usual time; delayed

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

accept as true; take to be true

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

in the space, time, or range separating two things

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

plural of “black” — the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

(of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the two together, not just one

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the childhood of a boy

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

of surpassing excellence

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

capital and largest city of Queensland state; located in the southeastern corner of Queensland on the Pacific; settled by British as a penal colony; 3rd largest city in Australia

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

inflected form of “bring” — take something or somebody with oneself somewhere

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

definite but not specified or identified

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a court with jurisdiction in equity

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

-ing form of “characterize” — describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

prepared by cutting

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

not accessible to view

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

(Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

possessive form of “cora” — (Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

without question and beyond doubt

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

very small

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

bring shame or dishonor upon

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

-ing form of “do” — engage in

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the state of being unsure of something

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

all through a period, or at some point within it

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

either extremity of something that has length

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

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From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

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From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

divisible by two

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

at any time

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

opinion or judgment

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

to a considerable degree; very much

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a prominent attribute or aspect of something

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

(of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

produced by or subjected to forcing

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

especially of writing or speech; going before

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

an American who was born in France or whose ancestors were French

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a person who is not a serf or a slave

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

English novelist (1867-1933)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site)

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a man of refinement

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

endowed with talent or talents

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a young female

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

containing an unusual amount of grease or oil

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

highest in quality

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

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From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

plural of “hatch” — the production of young from an egg

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the -ing form of “have”

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

possessive form of “hell” — any place of pain and turmoil

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

save up as for future use

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

where you live at a particular time

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

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From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

the state of being honored

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a period of time assigned for work

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

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From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

plural of “hundred” — ten 10s

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

marked by or promising bad fortune

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

introducing a different topic

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

defeat someone through trickery or deceit

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

veins in the neck that return blood from the head

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

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From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

inflected form of “know” — be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

plural of “know” — the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

-ing form of “leak” — tell anonymously

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

in like or similar manner

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

plural of “life” — a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

possessive form of “man” — an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

an amphibious division of the United States Navy

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a vaguely specified concern

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a written account of what transpired at a meeting

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

-ing form of “monopolize” — have and control fully and exclusively

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

used to form the superlative

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

attach to a support

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

to a great degree or extent

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

not any; not one

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

not one thing; not anything

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

plural of “officer” — any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

on one occasion

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

and nothing more

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

To move from a closed position.

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

above and across; more than

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a collection of things wrapped or boxed together

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

an artist who paints

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

something determined in relation to something that includes it

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

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From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

by chance

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a human being

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

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From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

select carefully from a group

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

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From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a person who participates in or is skilled at some game

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

a geometric element that has position but no extension

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

made ready or fit or suitable beforehand

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a state in northeastern Australia

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

the sport of engaging in contests of speed

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the manner in which something is greeted

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

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From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

made known or told about; especially presented in a formal account

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

uttered with a trill

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

an act of economizing; reduction in cost

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a large beer glass

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

plural of “sea” — a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

have in common

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

inflected form of “ship” — transport commercially

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

lift onto one's shoulders

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

and nothing more

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

from a time in the past until now

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

lie obliquely

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

being of delicate or slender build

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

move stealthily

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

a male human offspring

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

moving toward the south

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the unlimited expanse in which everything is located

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

Maintained an upright posture.

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

come to a halt, stop moving

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

superlative of “strong” — having strength or power greater than average or expected

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

inspiring awe

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

past form of “succumb” — consent reluctantly

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

plural of “survivor” — one who lives through affliction

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

understood in a certain way; made sense of

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

in or at that place or location

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

caused to fall to the ground

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

having come into contact

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

plural of “track” — a line or route along which something travels or moves

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

plural of “trade” — the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

From this reading No, there could be no doubt that I was all that stood between "Slant" Allen, "Ticket-of-Leavester," beachcomber, black-birder, pearl-pirate and (more or less incidentally to all of the foregoing) murderer, and the Hon. Hartley Allen, second son of the late James Allen, Bart., racing man, polo player and once the greatest gentleman jockey on the Australian turf.

United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

past form of “volunteer” — tell voluntarily

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

United States actress and singer (1896-1977)

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

any period of seven consecutive days

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

at the time that

From this reading To be sure, two or three of the blacks who were hanging over the rail at the end of that accursed afternoon may have been among the survivors (for it could have been only the strongest of them that had been able to fight their way up to the air when Bell chopped open the hatches they had been battened under ever since the _Cora's_ officers had succumbed who knows how many hours before); but, even so, their rolling, bloodshot eyes could have fixed on nothing to have led them to believe that the greasy shawl of Chinese embroidery the girl appeared to have thrown affectionately over the shoulder of the belated passenger in the leaking outrigger concealed the diminutive Malay _kris_ whose point she was pressing into the fleshy part of his neck above the jugular.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

which person or people

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

belonging to which person

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

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From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.

in the company of; together with

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

everything that exists anywhere

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

the least favorable outcome

From this reading He simply _had_ to see me, I figured; that was all there was to it: for with Bell and the girl dead (that much seemed certain, both from the newspaper accounts of the affair and from what I had been able to pick up in the few minutes I had been ashore during the stop of my southbound packet at Townsville) I was the only living person who knew _he_ was not the hero of the astonishing _Cora Andrews_ affair, the audacious daring and almost sublime courage characterizing which had touched the imagination of the whole world; that, far from having _volunteered_ to navigate a shipload of plague-stricken blacks through some hundreds of miles of the worst reef-beset--and likewise the most ill-charted--waters of the Seven Seas on the off chance of saving the lives of perhaps one in ten of them, he had been brought off and forced to mount the gangway of that ill-fated schooner at the point of a knife in the hands of a slender slip of a Kanaka girl.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a late time of life

From this reading LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN "Slant" Allen and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space in the Queensland and New South Wales papers for a week or more--he as "the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave-Man" and I as "the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilliant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm"--and now that it was definitely reported that he had left Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he would be doing me the honour of a call.

a young person (especially a young man or boy)

From this reading OLD MAN'S YOUTH _By William de Morgan_ HAGAR'S HOARD _By George Kibbe Turner_ IN CHANCERY _By John Galsworthy_ EUDOCIA _By Eden Phillpotts_ HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc.