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Fire1 Posted 7 years ago
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What is "of mortal fear" connected to?
What is "of mortal fear" connected to in the sentence in the image? I think "of mortal fear" is connected to "the wood-sawyer" as in 'The wood-sawyer of mortal fear".
Am I right?
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fire1 Am I right? Sorry, no. This is old-fashioned language.
- fire1 Am I right?
- Sorry, no.
- This is old-fashioned language.
- It's like doing a puzzle to read it.
- He held her in the respect of mortal fear and in the submission of mortal fear.
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fire1Am I right?
Sorry, no. This is old-fashioned language. It's like doing a puzzle to read it. He held her in the respect of mortal fear and in the submission of mortal fear. That doesn't even make sense in modern English. You can't hold anybody in the submission of mortal fear. But that is what Dickens wrote way back then.
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