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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
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Outline of things

Jub’s job was important and she was very proud of it. Each evening when dusk was removing the outline of things, like a rubber, Jub had to shoulder her big green sack and carry all the Happy Endings of stories from one end of the fores

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?what does "the outline of things" mean?

What does "Each evening when dusk was removing the outline of things, like a rubber" mean?????

  

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Jigneshbharati What does "Each evening when dusk was removing the outline of things, like a rubber" mean????? The Brits call an eraser, like the one on the end of a pencil, a rubber. Artists often roughly sketch their work first in pencil and then go over it more carefully in some other medium like ink and paint.

  • Jigneshbharati What does "Each evening when dusk was removing the outline of things, like a rubber" mean?????
  • The Brits call an eraser, like the one on the end of a pencil, a rubber.
  • Artists often roughly sketch their work first in pencil and then go over it more carefully in some other medium like ink and paint.
  • They finish by erasing the pencil marks with a gum eraser, removing the outline.
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JigneshbharatiWhat does "Each evening when dusk was removing the outline of things, like a rubber" mean?????

The Brits call an eraser, like the one on the end of a pencil, a rubber. Artists often roughly sketch their work first in pencil and then go over it more carefully in some other medium like ink and paint. They finish by erasing the pencil marks with

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JigneshbharatiWhat does "Each evening when dusk was removing the outline of things, like a rubber" mean?????

Basically, it just means "each evening". The rest is a description of evening. The sun is setting. It's harder to see things.

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