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Vermont Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
High places, establishment, etc
1. What does 'left him even in such high places' mean? (Keogh slipped into the sinecure of American consulship with the ease that never left him even in such high places.)
2. What does 'The tintype establishment' mean? (The tintype establishment was soon to become a thing of the past.)
3. What does 'scheme that dwarfed the art of misrepresenting the human countenance upon tin' mean? (He was figuring in his mind and on quires of Government letter-heads a scheme that dwarfed the art of misrepresenting the human countenance upon tin.)
4. I take the long end. What does it mean?
Thanx!
2. What does 'The tintype establishment' mean? (The tintype establishment was soon to become a thing of the past.)
3. What does 'scheme that dwarfed the art of misrepresenting the human countenance upon tin' mean? (He was figuring in his mind and on quires of Government letter-heads a scheme that dwarfed the art of misrepresenting the human countenance upon tin.)
4. I take the long end. What does it mean?
Thanx!
Top answer
1) Your extract is connecting the 'left him' with the wrong end of the sentence. It should be with the start of the sentence - The ease that never left him (even in such high places). It means that he was confident and felt at ease even in socially/politically 'high' places.
- 1) Your extract is connecting the 'left him' with the wrong end of the sentence.
- It should be with the start of the sentence - The ease that never left him (even in such high places).
- It means that he was confident and felt at ease even in socially/politically 'high' places.
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1) Your extract is connecting the 'left him' with the wrong end of the sentence. It should be with the start of the sentence - The ease that never left him (even in such high places). It means that he was confident and felt at ease even in socially/politically 'high' places.
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