Chapter VI

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

From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

for the reason that

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

all through a period, or at some point within it

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

every person

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

the -ing form of “have”

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

not one and not the other of two

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

no person; not anyone

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

and not; used after a negative to add a second negative

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

above and across; more than

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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

From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading But this disquieting and oft-repeated preface to the afternoon's festivity was now happily over.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

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From this reading That weekly ceremony--well known to Trimmer's Green--Mrs. Lovegrove's afternoon at-home, was in progress.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading It must be added that she was warm and uncomfortable, having conscientiously superintended preparations in respect of commissariat in the overheated atmosphere of the basement; hurried upstairs--the imagined tinkle of the front-door bell perpetually in her ears--to pull her stays in at the waist and project herself into the aforementioned official garments--a very trying process on a June day to a person of ample contours and what may be described as the fluidic temperament.

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

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading Later she had cooled off, or tried so to cool--for on such occasions there is invariably some window-blind, ornament, or piece of furniture actively in need of straightening--sitting in her somewhat fog-stained and sun-faded drawing-room during that evil period of waiting in which the intending hostess first suffers acute mortification because she is "quite sure nobody will come," and then gets hot all over from the equally agitating certainty that everybody she has ever known will appear simultaneously, and that there will be neither cakes nor conversation enough to go round.

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From this reading She wore her black satin gown, and her white Maltese lace fichu, just to give it a touch of summer lightness.