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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | Writing | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | addresses | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | says | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | understand | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | see | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | are | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | fronting | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | fighting | {
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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer - `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him - James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', t... | have | {
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`` The best condition of it would be an open conflict and rivalry of the diverse systems. | be | {
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The world might ring with the struggle, if we devoted ourselves exclusively to belaboring each other ''. | ring | {
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The world might ring with the struggle, if we devoted ourselves exclusively to belaboring each other ''. | devoted | {
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The world might ring with the struggle, if we devoted ourselves exclusively to belaboring each other ''. | belaboring | {
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The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness - unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God. | is | {
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The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness - unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God. | stakes | {
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To James this vision never quite came, despite his appreciation of it in others. | came | {
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But there is a dignity and even a hint of the inspired prophet in his words to one correspondent : `` You ask what I am going to ' reply ' to Bradley. | is | {
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But there is a dignity and even a hint of the inspired prophet in his words to one correspondent : `` You ask what I am going to ' reply ' to Bradley. | reply | {
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But why need one reply to everything and everybody? | need | {
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I think that readers generally hate minute polemics and recriminations. | think | {
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I think that readers generally hate minute polemics and recriminations. | hate | {
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All polemic of ours should, I believe, be either very broad statements of contrast, or fine points treated singly, and as far as possible impersonally. | believe | {
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All polemic of ours should, I believe, be either very broad statements of contrast, or fine points treated singly, and as far as possible impersonally. | be | {
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All polemic of ours should, I believe, be either very broad statements of contrast, or fine points treated singly, and as far as possible impersonally. | treated | {
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As far as the rising generation goes, why not simply express ourselves positively, and trust that the truer view quietly will displace the other. | express | {
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As far as the rising generation goes, why not simply express ourselves positively, and trust that the truer view quietly will displace the other. | trust | {
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Here again ' God will know his own '' '. | know | {
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The collected works of James Thurber, now numbering 25 volumes ( including the present exhibit ) represent a high standard of literary excellence, as every schoolboy knows. | numbering | {
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The collected works of James Thurber, now numbering 25 volumes ( including the present exhibit ) represent a high standard of literary excellence, as every schoolboy knows. | including | {
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The primitive-eclogue quality of his drawings, akin to that of graffiti scratched on a cave wall, is equally well known. | scratched | {
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About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book. | remains | {
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About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book. | held | {
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The one unifying note, if any, is sounded in the initial article entitled : `` How to Get Through the Day ''. | sounded | {
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The one unifying note, if any, is sounded in the initial article entitled : `` How to Get Through the Day ''. | Get Through | {
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It is repeated at intervals in some rather sadly desperate word-games for insomniacs, the hospitalized, and others forced to rely on inner resources, including ( in the P 's alone ) `` palindromes '', `` paraphrases '', and `` parodies ''. | repeated | {
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It is repeated at intervals in some rather sadly desperate word-games for insomniacs, the hospitalized, and others forced to rely on inner resources, including ( in the P 's alone ) `` palindromes '', `` paraphrases '', and `` parodies ''. | including | {
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"allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and respo... | [
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"include%2:42:00::"
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`` The Tyranny of Trivia '' suggests arbitrary alphabetical associations to induce slumber. | suggests | {
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"suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine"
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`` The Tyranny of Trivia '' suggests arbitrary alphabetical associations to induce slumber. | induce | {
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} | [
"cause to arise"
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"induce%2:36:00::"
] |
And new vistas of hairshirt asceticism are opened by scholarly monographs entitled : | opened | {
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"where the air is unconfined",
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"start to opera... | [
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"open%2:41:00::"
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`` Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear-Muffs '', `` Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dream '', and `` The New Vocabularianism ''. | Lend | {
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"lend%2:40:00::"
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`` Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear-Muffs '', `` Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dream '', and `` The New Vocabularianism ''. | Drifts | {
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Some of Thurber 's curative methods involve strong potions of mixed metaphor, malapropism, and gobbledygook and are recommended for use only in extreme cases. | involve | {
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"involve%2:42:01::"
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Some of Thurber 's curative methods involve strong potions of mixed metaphor, malapropism, and gobbledygook and are recommended for use only in extreme cases. | recommended | {
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"push for something"
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"recommend%2:32:01::"
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A burlesque paean entitled : `` Hark the Herald Tribune, Times, and All the Other Angels Sing '' brilliantly succeeds in exaggerating even motion-picture ballyhooey. | succeeds | {
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} | [
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"succeed%2:41:00::"
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A burlesque paean entitled : `` Hark the Herald Tribune, Times, and All the Other Angels Sing '' brilliantly succeeds in exaggerating even motion-picture ballyhooey. | exaggerating | {
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} | [
"to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth"
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"exaggerate%2:32:00::"
] |
`` How the Kooks Crumble '' features an amusingly accurate take-off on sneaky announcers who attempt to homogenize radio - TV commercials, and `` The Watchers of the Night '' is a veritable waking nightmare. | features | {
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"feature%2:42:00::"
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`` How the Kooks Crumble '' features an amusingly accurate take-off on sneaky announcers who attempt to homogenize radio - TV commercials, and `` The Watchers of the Night '' is a veritable waking nightmare. | attempt | {
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"attempt%2:41:00::"
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`` How the Kooks Crumble '' features an amusingly accurate take-off on sneaky announcers who attempt to homogenize radio - TV commercials, and `` The Watchers of the Night '' is a veritable waking nightmare. | homogenize | {
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"homogenize%2:30:01::"
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`` How the Kooks Crumble '' features an amusingly accurate take-off on sneaky announcers who attempt to homogenize radio - TV commercials, and `` The Watchers of the Night '' is a veritable waking nightmare. | is | {
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A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master 's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''. | is | {
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James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible, namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions. | remarks | {
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James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible, namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions. | attempting | {
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James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible, namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions. | produce | {
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James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible, namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions. | produces | {
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He would like to put several sentences on top of each other so that you could read them all at once, and get all at once, the various shadings and complexities ''. | like | {
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He would like to put several sentences on top of each other so that you could read them all at once, and get all at once, the various shadings and complexities ''. | put | {
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He would like to put several sentences on top of each other so that you could read them all at once, and get all at once, the various shadings and complexities ''. | read | {
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He would like to put several sentences on top of each other so that you could read them all at once, and get all at once, the various shadings and complexities ''. | get | {
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Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation : | is | {
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"be%2:42:03::"
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`` So much has already been written about everything that you can n't find out anything about it ''. | written | {
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"write%2:36:00::"
] |
`` So much has already been written about everything that you can n't find out anything about it ''. | find out | {
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"find_out%2:32:00::"
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Or the mildly epigrammatic utterance ( also a quotation ) : `` Woman 's place is in the wrong ''. | is | {
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] | [
"be%2:42:03::"
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Who but Thurber can be counted on to glean such nectareous essences? | counted on | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
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]
} | [
"judge to be probable"
] | [
"count_on%2:31:01::"
] |
Who but Thurber can be counted on to glean such nectareous essences? | glean | {
"name": "glean",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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]
} | [
"gather, as of natural products"
] | [
"glean%2:35:00::"
] |
A tribute to midsummer `` bang-sashes '' seems terribly funny, though it would be hard to explain why. | seems | {
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"give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect"
] | [
"seem%2:39:00::"
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A tribute to midsummer `` bang-sashes '' seems terribly funny, though it would be hard to explain why. | be | {
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A tribute to midsummer `` bang-sashes '' seems terribly funny, though it would be hard to explain why. | explain | {
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`` One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed around midnight in July and I leaped out of sleep and out of bed. | banged | {
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"to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound"
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"bang%2:39:00::"
] |
`` One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed around midnight in July and I leaped out of sleep and out of bed. | leaped | {
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... | [
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"leap%2:38:00::"
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' It 's just a bat ' said my wife reassuringly, and I sighed with relief. | 's | {
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' It 's just a bat ' said my wife reassuringly, and I sighed with relief. | said | {
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"express in words"
] | [
"say%2:32:00::"
] |
' It 's just a bat ' said my wife reassuringly, and I sighed with relief. | sighed | {
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} | [
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"sigh%2:29:00::"
] |
' Thank God for that ' I said ; ' I thought it was a human being '' '. | Thank | {
"name": "thank",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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]
} | [
"express gratitude or show appreciation to"
] | [
"thank%2:32:00::"
] |
' Thank God for that ' I said ; ' I thought it was a human being '' '. | said | {
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"say%2:32:00::"
] |
' Thank God for that ' I said ; ' I thought it was a human being '' '. | thought | {
"name": "think",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"expect, believe, or suppose",
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"recall knowl... | [
"judge or regard; look upon; judge"
] | [
"think%2:31:01::"
] |
' Thank God for that ' I said ; ' I thought it was a human being '' '. | was | {
"name": "be",
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"have an ex... | [
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] | [
"be%2:42:06::"
] |
In a sense, perhaps, Thurber is indebted artistically to the surrealist painter ( was it Salvador Dali? ) | is | {
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] | [
"be%2:42:03::"
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In a sense, perhaps, Thurber is indebted artistically to the surrealist painter ( was it Salvador Dali? ) | was | {
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who first conceived the startling fancy of a picture window in the abdomen. | conceived | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
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"judge or regard; look upon; judge",
"become pregnant; undergo conception"
]
} | [
"have the idea for"
] | [
"conceive%2:36:00::"
] |
That is, it is literally a picture window : you do n't see into the viscera ; you see a picture - trees, or flowers. | is | {
"name": "be",
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"have an ex... | [
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)"
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"be%2:42:03::"
] |
That is, it is literally a picture window : you do n't see into the viscera ; you see a picture - trees, or flowers. | see | {
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"perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight"
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"see%2:39:00::"
] |
That is, it is literally a picture window : you do n't see into the viscera ; you see a picture - trees, or flowers. | see | {
"name": "see",
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"imagine; conceive of; see in one's min... | [
"perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight"
] | [
"see%2:39:00::"
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This is something like what Thurber 's best effects are like, if I am not mistaken. | is | {
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"have an ex... | [
"be identical to; be someone or something"
] | [
"be%2:42:06::"
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This is something like what Thurber 's best effects are like, if I am not mistaken. | are | {
"name": "be",
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"have an ex... | [
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)"
] | [
"be%2:42:03::"
] |
This is something like what Thurber 's best effects are like, if I am not mistaken. | am | {
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] |
Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness. | turn out | {
"name": "turn_out",
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"prove to be in the result or end",
"produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery",
"result or end",
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"bring forth,",
"put out or expel from a pla... | [
"bring forth,"
] | [
"turn_out%2:36:00::"
] |
Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness. | are | {
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"have an ex... | [
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] | [
"be%2:42:03::"
] |
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