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Chapter XXXVIII
LOVE AND NO LEASING. Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise. Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other. Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze. Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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the past participle of “be”
From this reading “Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.”
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading “Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading LOVE AND NO LEASING.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
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From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
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From this reading Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
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From this reading LOVE AND NO LEASING.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
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From this reading LOVE AND NO LEASING.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
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From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
not any; not one
From this reading LOVE AND NO LEASING.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
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From this reading Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
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From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Their eyes met in the flashes of a double sunrise.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
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From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Two honester purer souls never looked out of their windows with meeting gaze.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Had there been no bodies to divide them, they would have mingled in a rapture of faith and high content.
