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Chapter XXIV
A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment. “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.” “Perish the ambition! We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said. We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.
to think that something will happen
From this reading ““Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.””
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.”
not one thing; not anything
From this reading “We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
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From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
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From this reading “Perish the ambition!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
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From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
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From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
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From this reading We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
to think that something will happen
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
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From this reading We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Perish the ambition!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We have blocked Pickering’s game, and nothing else matters,” I said.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We crawled through the hole in the wall and lighted candles.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading A PROWLER OF THE NIGHT Down we plunged into the cellar, through the trap and to the Door of Bewilderment.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Don’t expect too much,” admonished Larry; “I can’t promise you a single Spanish coin.”
