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Chapter V
However, our lovers are natural and uninventive. They get married. Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return. And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge. It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
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a responsibility that must be carried out
From this reading “It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.”
used to add a contrasting statement
From this reading “However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.”
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From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.
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From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
a responsibility that must be carried out
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
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From this reading And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge.
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From this reading They get married.
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From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
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From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
used to add a contrasting statement
From this reading However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
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From this reading And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge.
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From this reading However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.
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From this reading They get married.
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From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
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From this reading However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.
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From this reading And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They get married.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
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From this reading However, our lovers are natural and uninventive.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It heralds the return of rationality, the return to duty of the weighing and measuring qualities of the mind.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading And in its place is possession, which is satisfaction, familiarity, knowledge.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.
