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... thing to a New York society girl , who is actually going to have a costly debut , and another to the girl on an Iowa farm who buys sub - deb clothing from a mail order catalogue . Nigger connotes very different things to a diehard ...
... thing to a New York society girl , who is actually going to have a costly debut , and another to the girl on an Iowa farm who buys sub - deb clothing from a mail order catalogue . Nigger connotes very different things to a diehard ...
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... things about him : ( 1 ) He is inefficient ; zealous though he may be , in other respects , to accomplish things with the utmost dispatch and the least possible waste of motion , his language cries out for the attentions of a so ...
... things about him : ( 1 ) He is inefficient ; zealous though he may be , in other respects , to accomplish things with the utmost dispatch and the least possible waste of motion , his language cries out for the attentions of a so ...
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... things , see the same things , go to the same places , have their hopes and fears directed to the same objects , have the same rights and liberties , and the same means of asserting them . Great as are the differences of position which ...
... things , see the same things , go to the same places , have their hopes and fears directed to the same objects , have the same rights and liberties , and the same means of asserting them . Great as are the differences of position which ...
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Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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