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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Does "so very brief and sore was life with us" mean "For us, life was very brief and painful"?
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Blood was always on our hands; we were licensed to it. Wounding and killing seemed ephemeral pains, so very brief and sore was life with us.
Blood was always on our hands; we were licensed to it. Wounding and killing seemed ephemeral pains, so very brief and sore was life with us.
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Yes.
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