Chapter III · Chapter 3

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a record or narrative description of past events

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

from one side of something to the other

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

something done (usually as opposed to something said)

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

declared publicly; made widely known

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

surrounding, or on every side of, something

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the past participle of “be”

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

inflected form of “befall” — become of; happen to

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the two together, not just one

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the act of breaking something

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

showing who or what does the action

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

taking care or paying attention

From this reading Beason pondered the matter carefully.

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

perform an act, usually with a negative connotation

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

have a conference in order to talk something over

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

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

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the child of your aunt or uncle

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

every day; without missing a day

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

dearly loved

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

in a sincere and heartfelt manner

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

recognizable; marked

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

-ing form of “earn” — earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

either extremity of something that has length

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use “Europe” to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

at any time

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

all things; all of a situation

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

opinion or judgment

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

plural of “fact” — a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

produced by or subjected to forcing

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

in a joyous manner

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

destroyed or killed

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

highest in quality

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

plural of “head” — the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

advanced in complexity or elaboration

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

plural of “house” — a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

moving to the inside of something

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

and nothing more

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

be an inhabitant of or reside in

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

past form of “live” — be an inhabitant of or reside in

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

held dear

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

joined in matrimony

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a vaguely specified concern

From this reading Beason pondered the matter carefully.

United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884)

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

a form of address for a man

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

plural of “necessity” — the condition of being essential or indispensable

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

necessary for relief or supply

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

marked by blithe unconcern

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

not one, and not any

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

a brief written record

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

inconsequential conversation

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

have ownership or possession of

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

an amount of time

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

past form of “ponder” — reflect deeply on a subject

From this reading Beason pondered the matter carefully.

extremely

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

past form of “ramble” — continue talking or writing in a desultory manner

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

in a hasty and foolhardy manner

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

of or relating to the practice of science

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

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

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

inflected form of “skip” — bypass

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

stay the same; remain in a certain state

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

at a steady rate or pace

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

plural of “student” — a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

express a supposition

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a set of data arranged in rows and columns

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

express in words

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

disclosing unintentionally something concealed

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

status with respect to the relations between people or groups

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

in or at that place or location

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

judge or regard; look upon; judge

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

past form of “translate” — restate (words) from one language into another language

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a fact that has been verified

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

the body of faculty and students at a university

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

up to a particular time

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

plural of “untruth” — a false statement

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a formal word for “on”

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

void of intelligence or thought

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

precisely as stated

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

Risen from sleep; conscious.

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

the act of traveling by foot

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

past form of “walk” — use one's feet to advance; advance by steps

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

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

From this reading Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly.

in a serious manner

From this reading "I think," he announced, weightily, "that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house."

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

used to ask for information about something

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

at the time that

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

during the time that

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

which person or people

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

in the company of; together with

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

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

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

set down in writing in any of various ways

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading "But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling--Georgia had decided this young man needed "waking up"--"suppose you loved them both very dearly--suppose they were positively the dearest people who ever walked the earth--and that breaking your neck for them was the greatest pleasure life could confer upon you--what would you do _then?_"

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" "Mr. Beason," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them--almost every one who lived around the university had "students"--"if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that _you_ had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to 'look up a place for them to lay their heads'--which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none--if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason--just what would you do?"