Explain what the following figure of speech means: “watching the purple steal out of the sky as noiselessly as it had stolen in the evening before”

Which term best describes the progressive era

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

The truck driver backed his vehicle between two buildings, he did not have an inch to spare on either side. fragment, run on, or complete sentence?