Word: interwoven
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...over-run by hangers-on, and whose boundless hospitality is shamefully abused. He is particularly beset by two so-called friends, who use his house as their own for selfish ends, the one to provide his daily food and lodgings, the other to secure a husband for his daughter. Interwoven with the main plot are the adventures of Marmaduke's god-son, Alfred Wemyss, who has got himself entangled in a love affair with the wife of a fiery Mexican, Don Guzman. The play is in three acts. The scenes, three in number, are laid in San Francisco...
...welfare of the railroads of this country is interwoven with the welfare of the nation itself. They are directly involved in every branch of our national life. It to by their means that time and space have sunk into comparative insignificance...
...passage seems to contain two more important teachings, underlying and pervading the whole series of shorter ones contained in the chapter. The first of these is action and the second is self-denial. This selfdenial means self-sacrifice in its highest form. These two main themes are so interwoven with the separate parts of the chapter and the parts are individually so beautiful that the whole is justly considered one of the finest passages in the whole Bible...