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1. What does 'land of Nod' mean? (He spoke of his wife, trced her descent back to Eve, and profanely denied any posslible rumor that she may have had relations in the land of Nod.)
2. What does 'huck line' mean? (This Negro stood by a carriage so old that Ham himself might have started a huck line with it after he left the ark with two animals hitched to it.)
3. What does 'you ought to be turnd over to the police' mean? ("You confounded old rascal,"I said, reaching down to my pocket, "you ought to be turnd over to the police.")
4. What does 'an inheritance' mean? (Instead of heaving picked up a greenhorn, ignorant of rates, he had come upon an inheritance.)
5. What does 'from half-calf backs of' mean? (I kept brushing my fingers trying, unconsciously, to rid the guiltily of the absent dust from half-calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, hazlitt, Marcus Aurelius...)
Thanx!
1. What does 'land of Nod' mean? (He spoke of his wife, trced her descent back to Eve, and profanely denied any posslible rumor that she may have had relations in the land of Nod.)
2. What does 'huck line' mean? (This Negro stood by a carriage so old that Ham himself might have started a huck line with it after he left the ark with two animals hitched to it.)
3. What does 'you ought to be turnd over to the police' mean? ("You confounded old rascal,"I said, reaching down to my pocket, "you ought to be turnd over to the police.")
4. What does 'an inheritance' mean? (Instead of heaving picked up a greenhorn, ignorant of rates, he had come upon an inheritance.)
5. What does 'from half-calf backs of' mean? (I kept brushing my fingers trying, unconsciously, to rid the guiltily of the absent dust from half-calf backs of Lamb, Chaucer, hazlitt, Marcus Aurelius...)
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Hello Anon 1. Genesis iv 16: Cain went and dwelt there. It's also jocularly used to mean 'bed', as in 'go to the land of Nod'; but I think the reference in your example is literal.
- Hello Anon 1.
- Genesis iv 16: Cain went and dwelt there.
- It's also jocularly used to mean 'bed', as in 'go to the land of Nod'; but I think the reference in your example is literal.
- 2.
- I'm not sure about this one.
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Hello Anon
1. Genesis iv 16: Cain went and dwelt there. It's also jocularly used to mean 'bed', as in 'go to the land of Nod'; but I think the reference in your example is literal.
2. I'm not sure about this one. I think it means 'a small business selling sundry goods'.
3. It means the rascal should be taken to the nearest police officer so that he can be charged with th
1. Genesis iv 16: Cain went and dwelt there. It's also jocularly used to mean 'bed', as in 'go to the land of Nod'; but I think the reference in your example is literal.
2. I'm not sure about this one. I think it means 'a small business selling sundry goods'.
3. It means the rascal should be taken to the nearest police officer so that he can be charged with th
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