an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offense
The coldness began to come back. "I forgot Miss Bessie." "Your daddy's milking her." "I forgot last night, too." She kept nodding her head. "Your daddy did it for you." But it wasn't an accusation. (Ch. 11, p. 137)
She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there - like an astronaut wandering about the moon. (Ch. 12, p. 145-146)
the action of a group moving ahead in regular formation
He walked slowly, as part of a great procession, though only the puppy could be seen, slowly forward carrying the queen's wreath to the sacred grove. (Ch. 13, p. 152)
And when he finished, he put flowers in her hair and led her across the bridge - the great bridge into Terabithia - which might look to someone with no magic in him like a few planks across a nearly dry gully. (Ch. 13, p. 163)
Created on Tue Oct 29 18:10:15 EDT 2013
(updated Tue Oct 29 18:14:45 EDT 2013)
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