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Chapter IV
"Now where?" Shann asked. Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland? Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior. The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading “The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Shann asked.”
at or toward the back of something
From this reading “The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?”
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Shann asked.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
at or toward the back of something
From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
not any; not one
From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading "Now where?"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading Shann asked.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading Certainly such broken country afforded good hiding, but no better concealment than the mountains of the interior.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
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From this reading The Survey officer turned slowly around on the shingle, studying the heights behind them as well as the angle of the inlet where the wavelets lapped almost at their battered boot tips.
in or at the place that
From this reading "Now where?"
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?
