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What is the meaning of "laid by the heels"?

meaning expressions literature

What does Dickens mean by "servant" in A Christmas Carol? [closed]

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Dickens: meaning of “preserves” in “preserves of loaves and fishes”

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What does "tenable" mean to Shakespeare?

british-english literature early-modern-english shakespeare

Please help me make sense of the grammar of this line

grammaticality literature

What is the definition of "solipsized?"

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"Directly" in the meaning of "As soon as"

word-usage literature

Meaning of "Where will wants not, a way opens"

meaning phrases archaicisms literature

What type of English is used in the dialogue of the Lord of the Rings movies? [closed]

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Can't make sense of a paragraph from Lovecraft

meaning-in-context conjunctions literature paragraphs

What does "te-thrum" mean?

word-choice literature poetry neologisms

"just because… doesn't mean…"

literature formality construction

meaning of "riding out on sorties in quest of adventure"

meaning-in-context translation literature comprehension

How is this comma usage explained with Thomas Pynchon?

punctuation commas literature is-it-a-rule

The latter had never been "underdrawn"

Meaning of "dust" when referring to a person

What does the word 'operator' mean in here?

idioms american-english idiom-meaning literature

Meaning of this piece of dialogue in The Call of the Wild?

meaning-in-context phrase-meaning colloquialisms literature dialogue

What is the meaning of 'above' in :" I've always been proud above my station in life'"?

word-usage literature

What is Skinn & Sheer in the Ambrose Bierce fable: The Rainmaker?

american-english speech literature north-american-english money