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Chapter V
Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room. There were only two empty chairs at his table. One was his own. The other belonged to Mary Standish. There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.”
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “One was his own.”
above and across; more than
From this reading “Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.”
a thing, without saying which
From this reading “There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.”
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From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
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From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
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From this reading The other belonged to Mary Standish.
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From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
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From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
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From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
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From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
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From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
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From this reading The other belonged to Mary Standish.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading One was his own.
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From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
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From this reading The other belonged to Mary Standish.
above and across; more than
From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
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From this reading One was his own.
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From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
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From this reading The other belonged to Mary Standish.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
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From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
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From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
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From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The other belonged to Mary Standish.
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From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
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From this reading There was something almost aggressively suggestive in their simultaneous vacancy, it struck him at first.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There were only two empty chairs at his table.
at the time that
From this reading Breakfast hour was half over when Alan went into the dining-room.
