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Silak12 Posted 7 years ago
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Passing beyond the earthwork?

Hi, everyone.

Could you help me understand the meaning of the phrase in bold?

It was pleasant and quiet, out there with the sails on the river passing beyond the earthwork, https://genius.com/Charles-dickens-great-expectations-chap-15-annotated#note-7881931.

Thanks.

  

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The narrator was near a river, and there was a dike or something like that between him and it, so that all he could see of the boats was their sails.

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  • The narrator was near a river, and there was a dike or something like that between him and it, so that all he could see of the boats was their sails.
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The narrator was near a river, and there was a dike or something like that between him and it, so that all he could see of the boats was their sails.

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