Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: “It is like Wash Williams,” you would have said. “As he sits in the corner there, the beast is exactly like the old Wash sitting on the _ in the station yard on a summer evening after he has closed his office for the night.”
(*ответ*) grass
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land
flowers
Choose the right preposition: . I hated the men I thought had wronged her. I was sick of being alone and wanted her back. The longer I waited the more raw and tender I became. I thought that if she came in and just touched me _ her hand I would perhaps faint away. I ached to forgive and forget
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Choose the right preposition: . Up along Main Street he went in the evening to Ed Griffith’s saloon, and after drinking unbelievable quantities of beer staggered off to his room in the New Willard House and _ his bed for the night
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Choose the right preposition: And if you belong _ the half to whom waiters’ checks are things of moment, you should know Bogle’s, for there you get your money’s worth – in quantity, at least
(*ответ*) to
Choose the right preposition: Another one known as ‘Freshy’, who rode _ the Traction Company’s repair wagon, was going to give her a poodle as soon as his brother got the hauling contract in the Ninth. And the man who always ate spareribs and spinach and said he was a stockbroker asked her to go to ‘Parsifal’ with him
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Choose the right preposition: At least twice a week someone took her _ a theatre or to a dance. One stout gentleman whom she and Tildy had privately christened ‘The Hog’ presented her with a turquoise ring
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Choose the right preposition: At the cashier’s desk sits Bogle, cold, sordid, slow, smouldering, and takes your money. Behind a mountain of toothpicks he makes your change, files your check, and ejects _ you, like a toad, a word about the weather. Beyond a corroboration of his meteorological statement you would better not venture
(*ответ*) at
Choose the right preposition: Bogle’s is situated _ that highway of bourgeoisie, that boulevard of Brown- Jones-and-Robinson, Eighth Avenue. There are two rows of tables in the room, six in each row. On each table is a castor-stand, containing cruets of condiments and seasons
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Choose the right preposition: For a moment there was a catch in the voice of the man talking in the darkness. “I loved her,” he said. “I don’t claim not to be a fool. I love her yet . There _ the dusk in the spring evening I crawled along the black ground to her feet and groveled before her. I kissed her shoes and the ankles above her shoes
(*ответ*) in
Choose the right preposition: From the pepper cruet you may shake a cloud of something tasteless and melancholy, like volcanic dust. From the salt cruet you may expect nothing. Though a man should extract a sanguinary stream from the pallid turnip, yet will his prowess be balked when he comes to wrest salt _ Bogle’s cruets
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Choose the right preposition: George Willard went one evening to walk with Belle Carpenter, a trimmer of women’s hats who worked in a millinery shop kept _ Mrs. Kate McHugh. The young man was not in love with the woman, who, in fact, had a suitor who worked as bartender in Ed Griffith’s saloon, but as they walked about under the trees they occasionally embraced
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Choose the right preposition: Had you been in the earlier years of your life a citizen of the village of Winesburg, Ohio, there would have been for you no mystery in regard to the beast in his cage. “It is like Wash Williams,” you would have said. “As he sits _the corner there, the beast is exactly like the old Wash sitting on the grass in the station yard on a summer evening after he has closed his office for the night.”
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Choose the right preposition: He had put Wash into the obscure office _ Winesburg to avoid discharging him, and he meant to keep him there. When he received the letter of complaint from the banker’s wife, he tore it up and laughed unpleasantly. For some reason he thought of his own wife as he tore up the letter
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Choose the right preposition: I go too fast. Not everything about Wash was unclean. He took care _ his hands. His fingers were fat, but there was something sensitive and shapely in the hand that lay on the table by the instrument in the telegraph office
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Choose the right preposition: I was married, sure. My wife was dead before she married me, she was a foul thing come out _ a woman more foul. She was a thing sent to make life unbearable to me. I was a fool, do you see, as you are now, and so I married this woman
(*ответ*) of
Choose the right preposition: I would like to see men a little begin to understand women. They are sent to prevent men making the world worth while. It is a trick in Nature. Ugh! They are creeping, crawling, squirming things, they _ their soft hands and blue
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Choose the right preposition: If the transients were entranced by the fascinating Aileen, the regulars were her adorers. There was much rivalry _ many of the steady customers. Aileen could have had an engagement every evening
(*ответ*) among
Choose the right preposition: If you do not know Bogle’s Chop house and Family Restaurant it is your loss. For if you are one _the fortunate ones who dine expensively you should be interested to know how the other half consumes provisions
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Choose the right preposition: If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner _ his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, sagging, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody
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Choose the right preposition: In all of Winesburg there was but one person who knew the story of the thing that had made ugly the person and the character of Wash Williams. He once told the story _ George Willard and the telling of the tale came about in this way
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