House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics - Edith Wharton [202]
that then ran above Sixth Avenue and other New York City streets.
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Scattered remains (Latin).
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The reference is to signs of disrepair, as one would find in Pompeii, an ancient Roman city on the Bay of Naples buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
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Four-wheeled carriage with two double seats facing each other. †Early automobile based on the design of a two-passenger carriage.
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Mass-produced sculpture by the once-popular American artist John Rogers (1829-1904).
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A reference to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Cross of Snow” (1879): “In the long, sleepless watches of the night.”
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Chloral hydrate, a rapidly acting sedative for nervous insomnia.
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The phrase echoes a line from “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819) by John Keats: “emptied some dull opiate to the drains.”