him
/ˈhɪm/ pronoun A1- With dative effect or as an indirect object.
- Following a preposition.
- With accusative effect or as a direct object.
- As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction. · Now him and Bernie are best friends.· He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be). · Who was there? —Him.· Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.)
- With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
- A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity. · Stop trying that, you're not him bro.· Bro thinks he's him.
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Suddenly, he felt an arm thrown around his body, and a well-known voice behind him exclaimed, “Father—dear father!”
“’Tis nothing, nothing; it will soon pass away”—and as he said so the old man’s strength failed him, and he fell backwards.
He seized a rope which Dantès flung to him, and with an activity that would have done credit to a sailor, climbed up the side of the ship, while the young man, going to his task, left the conversation to Danglars, who now came towards the owner.
He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates; and this, in addition to his position as responsible agent on board, which is always obnoxious to the sailors, made him as much disliked by the crew as Edmond Dantès was beloved by them.
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