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What was “standard shift” in the 1920's?

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What does “Hoo's fully resolved t' sew up meawth an' eend” mean in “Mary Barton”?

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What does “tucked in below the ramparts of the faculty grounds” mean in this context?

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Feb 8 at 17:23 Tsundoku♦ 26.9k

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What does “whose shadows were all about her” modify in this text?

sinclair-lewis main-street

Dec 31 at 2:24 Tsundoku♦ 26.9k

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What does “an appeal, a right violated and invoked” mean in this context?

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Dec 21 at 12:14 Rand al'Thor♦ 50.6k

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What does “I wished it could be us out there.” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 18:08 scc 11

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What does “I’d lost” mean in this context? [closed]

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Dec 20 at 14:49 at_ 156

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What does “the same faces” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 12:47 verbose 10.3k

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What does “mind our own business” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 10:20 verbose 10.3k

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Does “her bike” refer to a motorcycle or a bicycle in this passage?

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Dec 20 at 10:12 verbose 10.3k

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What does “the gigantic gates and lines of soldiers that protected the castle that was the Soviet embassy” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 9:57 verbose 10.3k

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What does “And it won’t be weird with Hania? Coming on to” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 9:52 verbose 10.3k

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What does “look a little … something.” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 9:40 verbose 10.3k

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What does “quick, light beats prepared the room, gathered our attention, ecstatic, simple and single-minded.” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 9:27 verbose 10.3k

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What does “I pressed her against me” mean in this context?

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Dec 20 at 9:25 CinCout 708

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What does “It made me think that throughout my life, up to this point, everything I’d done had felt either irrelevant or replaceable.” mean here?

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Dec 19 at 19:14 Gustavson 341

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Does “a satisfaction in the forbidden, a challenge” mean a satisfaction in doing what is forbidden?

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Dec 19 at 17:29 bobble 2,190

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Does “Like an unwritten piece of paper” mean like a paper that is literally blank in this passage?

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Dec 19 at 17:22 bobble 2,190

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Does “a country junction” mean a crossing of roads in the countryside in this passage?

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Dec 19 at 17:21 bobble 2,190

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Does “rounded streets” mean curved streets in this passage?

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Dec 19 at 17:20 bobble 2,190

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Does “pact you’ve made with yourself” refer to a concession or agreement in this passage?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski

Dec 19 at 17:20 bobble 2,190

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Does “bottles” refer to alcoholic drinks in this passage?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski

Dec 19 at 17:13 bobble 2,190

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In this passage from Swimming in the Dark, what does “arched back defined” mean?

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Dec 19 at 17:09 Rand al'Thor♦ 50.6k

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In this passage from “Swimming in the Dark”, does “a sort of thought-through whisper” mean a pondered-upon whisper?

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Dec 19 at 17:08 bobble 2,190

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In this passage from “Swimming in the Dark”, does “came through to the corridor with me” mean they came out through the room to the corridor?

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Dec 19 at 17:03 bobble 2,190

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What does “Behind it lay the nuns’ convent, their cloister with its orchards and grazing cows…” mean here?

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Dec 19 at 14:01 Tsundoku♦ 26.9k

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What does “I heard her shoving the brooms up against it, heard running in other parts of the office…” mean in this context?

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Dec 19 at 13:42 Tsundoku♦ 26.9k

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What does “I need to check on somebody” mean in this context?

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Dec 19 at 13:00 Tsundoku♦ 26.9k

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What does “searching the flats and offices, returning to interrogate the man and the woman and to take down their details” mean here?

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Dec 19 at 11:50 verbose 10.3k

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What does “referred from the centre for student accommodation” mean in this context?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski

Dec 19 at 9:51 Tsundoku♦ 26.9k

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78 Questions

What was “standard shift” in the 1920's?

What does “Hoo's fully resolved t' sew up meawth an' eend” mean in “Mary Barton”?

What does “tucked in below the ramparts of the faculty grounds” mean in this context?

What does “whose shadows were all about her” modify in this text?

What does “an appeal, a right violated and invoked” mean in this context?

What does “I wished it could be us out there.” mean in this context?

What does “I’d lost” mean in this context? [closed]

What does “the same faces” mean in this context?

What does “mind our own business” mean in this context?

Does “her bike” refer to a motorcycle or a bicycle in this passage?

What does “the gigantic gates and lines of soldiers that protected the castle that was the Soviet embassy” mean in this context?

What does “And it won’t be weird with Hania? Coming on to” mean in this context?

What does “look a little … something.” mean in this context?

What does “quick, light beats prepared the room, gathered our attention, ecstatic, simple and single-minded.” mean in this context?

What does “I pressed her against me” mean in this context?

What does “It made me think that throughout my life, up to this point, everything I’d done had felt either irrelevant or replaceable.” mean here?

Does “a satisfaction in the forbidden, a challenge” mean a satisfaction in doing what is forbidden?

Does “Like an unwritten piece of paper” mean like a paper that is literally blank in this passage?

Does “a country junction” mean a crossing of roads in the countryside in this passage?

Does “rounded streets” mean curved streets in this passage?

Does “pact you’ve made with yourself” refer to a concession or agreement in this passage?

Does “bottles” refer to alcoholic drinks in this passage?

In this passage from Swimming in the Dark, what does “arched back defined” mean?

In this passage from “Swimming in the Dark”, does “a sort of thought-through whisper” mean a pondered-upon whisper?

In this passage from “Swimming in the Dark”, does “came through to the corridor with me” mean they came out through the room to the corridor?

What does “Behind it lay the nuns’ convent, their cloister with its orchards and grazing cows…” mean here?

What does “I heard her shoving the brooms up against it, heard running in other parts of the office…” mean in this context?

What does “I need to check on somebody” mean in this context?

What does “searching the flats and offices, returning to interrogate the man and the woman and to take down their details” mean here?

What does “referred from the centre for student accommodation” mean in this context?