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Questions regarding the meaning of certain terms or phrases used in a work of literature. If your question concerns the symbolic significance of something whose surface meaning is clear, use the [symbolism] tag instead. Please add specific tags as well: for the author (if known), the language (if not English), and either the work itself (if long) or the [poetry] or [short-stories] tags for short works.
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What's meant here by "the sort of lunacy allowed in the gentry"?
have a nose for" mean "have a natural ability to find or discover"
So It may be reworded as "because he is good at finding the sort of allowed foolishness in the gentry"
But I still can't get the whole meaning …
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What does "on the top of the spring tide" mean in "Stolen Ingots"?
In "Stolen Ingots" in Dr. Thorndyke's Case-Book by R. Austin Freeman, Mr. Badger was standing on a bridge watching a barge and brawley
“Yes. There’s a little ramshackle bawley from Leigh—but her crew …
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What's meant by "her sails over the land!" in "Stolen Ingots"?
In "Stolen Ingots" in Dr. Thorndyke's Case-Book by R. Austin Freeman, there was a boat that chases a barge in a tidal river and amongst muddy banks:
Meanwhile the fugitive barge, having got some two …
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What's meant by "melancholy point work" in "The Just Men of Cordova"?
sense to check them—for a while—
I found that "put upon" may mean have too much work, but it has been actually said after it that he get "more than his share of extra duty", so I think it means another meaning …
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What has the "younger son" to do with "cow-punching on the pampas"? in "The Just Men of Cord...
I found by searching that "swing round" take "to" not "on", so does "swing round on" have another meaning? …
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What's meant by "man of some character" in "The Just Men of Cordova"?
I met some obscure points in this second passage:-
Firstly I didn't get the meaning of "man of some character" as every one has a character already! …
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What's meant by "stamp-hunt" in "The Just Men of Cordova"?
In chapter 10 of The Just Men of Cordova (1917) by Edgar Wallace, the author was describing an employer, Jakobs, who usually stole unconsidered stamps and such loose coinage as might be found in the o …
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What's exactly meant by "“saving” on Nemesis" in The Just Men of Cordova?
But I still don't get the meaning of this bolded statement.
And what's the connection between the team of Timpolino and the betting on Nemesis? …
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What's meant by "these things" in The Just Men of Cordova?
In chapter 5 of The Just Men of Cordova (1917) by Edgar Wallace, the author describes an outside broker and financier talking to his friend about their hard financial condition:
Black tossed a letter …
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What's meant by "the illusion of the chapel ended" in The Just Men of Cordova?
In chapter 17 of The Just Men of Cordova (1917) by Edgar Wallace, the author is describing a captured man who had been led to a building:
The sight he saw was a remarkable one. He was in a chapel; he …
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What's meant here by "just try it" and "just try it on"?
And 2) Does "You just try it on" have the same meaning?
And 3) Why the young girl protested when he had said "Should think you’d had enough of it by this time"?
Thanks in advance. …
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What does "it never takes the poignancy of the sting away from a beating received" mean?
In In the Midst of Alarms (1894) by Robert Barr, the author is describing a journalist at the Argus newspaper, who used to read the opposition sheets in a feverish way, saying:
He had feared that he …
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What does "hard pushed in argument" mean in this context?
However, I'm having difficulty understanding the full meaning of the phrase in this context
2- What did he exactly mean by "I’ll treat the crowd, if there’s a place handy"? …
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Who is "they" that "rake him in" or "gather him in" in this passage from In the Midst of Ala...
In In the Midst of Alarms (1894) by Robert Barr, someone was talking about a man who doesn't like attending protracted meetings for converting the sinners:
He never wants to go to a protracted meetin …
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What does "draw on" mean in "In the Midst of Alarms?
I think, from the context, that "draw on" here means "visit" or "go to", but I didn't find such a meaning in the dictionary.
Or does it mean "take money from Argus"? …
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