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/ən/ adverb A2- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room. · Suddenly a strange man walked in.· Would you like that to take away or eat in?
- Towards the speaker or other reference point. · They flew in from London last night.· For six hours the tide flows in, then for another six hours it flows out.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something. · Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.· I was tired enough to snuggle in with the dogs on the couch and sleep there.
- After the beginning of something. · The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
- Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
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The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La Canebière.
The two oarsmen bent to their work, and the little boat glided away as rapidly as possible in the midst of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which leads between the two rows of ships from the mouth of the harbor to the Quai d’Orléans.
The shipowner, smiling, followed him with his eyes until he saw him spring out on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La Canebière,—a street of which the modern Phocéens are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and with that accent which gives so much character to what is said, “If Paris had La Canebière, Paris would be a second Marseilles.” On turning round the owner saw Danglars behind him, apparently awaiting orders, but in reality also watching the young sailor,—but there was a great difference in the expression of the two men who thus followed the movements of Edmond Dantès.
Morrel,” exclaimed the young seaman, with tears in his eyes, and grasping the owner’s hand, “M.
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