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- "Farther down, before one of the cottages, a lady in black was walking demurely up and down, telling her beads."
- In a modest and reserved fashion.
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- adverb
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- "The quadroon nurse was looked upon as a huge encumbrance, only good to button up waists and panties and to brush and part hair."
- A burden
- en-kuhm-bruh[image]ns
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- "They formed a congenial group sitting there that summer afternoon-Madame Ratignolle sewing away, often stopping to relate a story or incident with much expressive gesture of her perfect hands."
- Suited or adapted in spirit, feeling or temper
- kuh[image]n-jeen-yuh[image]l
- Adjective
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- "'Of whom-of what are you thinking?' asked Adele of her companion, whose countenance she had been watching with a little amused attention, arrested by the absorbed expression which seemed to have seized and fixed every feature into a statuesque repose."
- The look or expression of the face
- koun-tn-uh[image]ns
- Noun
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- "He served her with no mean repast, dripping the coffee anew and sharing it with her."
- Food provided for one occasion of eating
- ree-past
- Noun
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