Chapter XII

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

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

very surprised

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

at or to a lower level than something

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

Directly under; in or to a lower position than.

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

next to; at the side of

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading “And what keeps out the cold?”

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

prepared and equipped for a particular purpose

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

used when the thing doing the action is also its object

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading “And what keeps out the cold?”

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

a period of time or extent

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

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

From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

used with “to” to say what is right or advisable

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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From this reading I asked Morris, who was lying back blowing rings into the summer night, the glow of an overhead lantern lighting up his handsome face.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

up to a particular time

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading “And what keeps out the cold?”

which person or people

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading It was an old story, of course, to Peter, who had the easy-chair beside me, and so it was to Morris, who had helped Miss Felicia carry out so Utopian a scheme, but it had come to me as a complete surprise, and I was still wide-eyed and incredulous.

in the company of; together with

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

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

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

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From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading The Scribe is quite positive that had you only heard about it as he had, even with the details elaborated, not only by Peter, who was conservatism itself in his every statement, but by Miss Felicia as well--who certainly ought to have known--you would not have believed it possible until you had seen it.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Even then you would have had to drop into one of Miss Felicia's cretonne-upholstered chairs--big easy-chairs that fitted into every hollow and bone in your back--looked the length of the uneven porch, run your astonished eye down the damp, water-soaked wooden steps to the moist brick pavement below, and so on to the beds of crocuses blooming beneath the clustering palms and orange trees, before you could realize (in spite of the drifting snow heaped up on the door-steps of her house outside--some of it still on your shoes) that you were in Miss Felicia's tropical garden, attached to Miss Felicia's Geneseo house, and not in the back yard of some old home in the far-off sunny South.