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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
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in which, what lay beneath
In spite of his diminutive size, his barrel chest and powerful upper arms seemed ready to burst out of the seersucker suit that confined them. By contrast, his right leg was pitiful: By the way in which his trousers clung, and flapped uselessly round what lay beneath, I could see that it was little more than a matchstick. With his huge head, he looked to me like nothing so much as a giant octopus, stalking on uneven tentacles through the churchyard.
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More modern English might say something much simpler: by the way in which = how. I'm guessing this is 19th century prose.
- More modern English might say something much simpler: by the way in which = how.
- I'm guessing this is 19th century prose.
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More modern English might say something much simpler: by the way in which = how. I'm guessing this is 19th century prose.
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