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  • The Porter goes out. (9)
  • Enter the second murderer! (8)
  • The cathedral was finished. (5)
  • He examined the other window. (1)
  • Evan thought he knew the voice. (10)
  • The future must be very uncertain. (4)
  • Always the shout for more produced it. (10)
  • What was the form of early violin music? (3)
  • The war has never fully panned out in fiction yet. (9)
  • There are scenes of life proper to the grave-cloth. (10)
  • They were fools to think he could have had the strength. (8)
  • Her breath hung for the answer, sedately though she sat. (10)
  • Pericles, prostrate on the floor, moaned that he was wounded. (10)
  • She spoke on the subject to my lord as to a husband pardoned. (10)
  • Nested warm, The day was the morrow in flight. (10)
  • A plain of fields and hedges spread to the distant grey-bluedowns. (8)
  • An unfortunate love-affair caused him to consider entering the church. (3)
  • Leap not, nor let leap the heart: Trot your track, and drag your cart. (10)
  • The sight of her face shocked him, it was so white, so resolutely dumb. (8)
  • Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields! (10)
  • Next day his knee was badly swollen; the walking tour was obviously over. (8)
  • And the country tale of Constantia Durham sang itself to her in a new key. (10)
  • And stretching his hand across the table, he took hers and pressed it tightly. (8)
  • She sent me three hundred pounds; she must have supposed the occasion pressing. (10)
  • Lady Charlotte saw the chance as a wind-blown beacon-fire under press of shades. (10)
  • My companion sank right under the blanket to peer at him through one of its holes. (10)
  • Biddy put out her little, pale finger but stayed it a couple of inches from the bee. (8)
  • Bigot too denied his knavery, until the papers signed by himself put him to silence. (19)
  • While he was talking they passed into the driveway and came to the house. (13)
  • Mr. Darcy, with grave propriety, requested to be allowed the honour of her hand, but in vain. (4)
  • The unifications were bound to be, just as the separations before them were. (9)
  • She accepted the book with a soft murmur, and the sallow usher had not a word. (10)
  • When he sent the next day and got a permit to see the boat; she consented to go. (9)
  • The bare room, with tattered oilcloth and damp, distempered walls, has an air of tidy wretchedness. (8)
  • Why did Ferdinand speak to her with that air of gentle authority, bidding her return to the house? (10)
  • He moved slowly down the Row towards Knightsbridge, timing himself to get to Chelsea at nine-fifteen. (8)
  • Outside, in the street from which they had mounted by stone steps, a shower of sleet had begun to fall. (8)
  • She was lying gracefully on the grass, with her face smothered in her hands, and her whole body shaking. (8)
  • He will go to the State, and the State will see that he haf voark, and that he haf foodt. (9)
  • And what have we succeeded in doing, that the childish effort to move it should be continued at such a cost? (10)
  • By looking eternally inward, you teach yourself to fret, and the consequence is, or will be, that you wither. (22)
  • And the Countess Livia now backs him in maintaining that there is nowhere a more honest young man to be found. (10)
  • The moment Ralph was hidden by an abutment of the banks, Richard perused the address. (10)
  • She came flying to him, and he caught her up so that she stood on his knees with the sunlight shining on her fluffed out hair. (8)
  • He shoves and pushes until he is accommodated, and not until then is the boss hostler satisfied that there will be no accident. (21)
  • When the wires were removed, they appeared puzzled and three of them took up the electrodes as if to study them. (21)
  • Besides these leaden plates Célèron carried an immense stock of tin shields bearing the arms of the King of France. (19)
  • On the contrary, civilization has always been for the most part purely empirical, and progress will ever remain so. (16)
  • He must have been in a singular state not to see her heart in the refusal, as was she not to see his in the request. (10)
  • Their ancestors, beholding them there, would be satisfied on the point of honour; perhaps enlivened by hearing them at fife and drum. (10)
  • She signified to them that they were to sit, then quietly took her seat among them, fronting the General across the aisle. (10)
  • The severe storms and heavy snows of the winter made game very scarce and the Indians were near starvation. (18)
  • Attendants were awaiting him at the garden-gate of a beautiful villa partly girdled by rising fir-woods on its footing of bright green meadow. (10)
  • Beyond the cornfields, on slightly higher ground, was a thin forest, with breaks here and there in its continuity, denoting plantations, probably. (7)
  • Most of all, she afflicted the man who had been so faithful to her misery, and maddened him to reprisals, of which he afterward abjectly repented. (9)
  • I found that the Italians had no novels which treated of their contemporary life; that they had no modern fiction but the historical romance. (9)
  • On this basis the best news is that which can be shown to be most closely related to the interests of the largest number of readers. (16)
  • All that had happened a few minutes ago in the blueberry patch seemed a far-off dream; the reality had died out of the looks and words. (9)
  • And one fine morning down came the family after a fearful row of the domestics; shouting, screaming, cries for the police, and murder topping all. (10)
  • The lonely, dangerous trails along which Champlain, Frontenac, Lasalle, and Verendrye led their men have given way to steel highroads which traverse the entire Continent. (19)

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Definition of the:

  • the, th_e, or (when emphatic) th_, demons. pron. usually called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing: also to denote a species. (0) | the, th_e, adv. used before comparatives, as, ‘the more the better.’ (0)

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