shootingstar
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- Joined
- Nov 17, 2022
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- German
- Home Country
- Germany
- Current Location
- Germany
. . . From the club to Mr. Havens's residence was but a step or two, and to any dweller in Europe they must have seemed steps in fairyland. If such an one could but have followed our friends into the wide verandahed house, sat down with them in the cool trellised room, where the wine shone on the lamp-lighted tablecloth; tasted of their exotic food - the raw fish, the breadfruit, the cooked bananas, the roast pig, served with the inimitable miti, and that king of delicacies palmtree salad; seen and heard by fits and starts, now peering round the corner of the door, now railing within against invisible assistants, a certain comely young native lady in a sacque, who seemed too modest to be a member of the family, and too imperious to be less, and then if such an one were whisked again through space to Upper Tooting, or wherever else he honoured the domestic gods, "I have had a dream," I think he would say, as he sat up, rubbing his eyes, in the familiar chimney-corner chair, "I have had a dream of a place, and I declare I believe it must be heaven." But to Dodd and his entertainer, all this amenity of the tropic night, and all these dainties of the island table, were grown things of custom; and they fell to meat like men who were hungry, and drifted into idle talk like men who were a trifle bored.
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(Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker, Prologue - In The Marquesas)
What is the meaning of "be whisked to (a place)" in this context? Is there a synonym?
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(Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker, Prologue - In The Marquesas)
What is the meaning of "be whisked to (a place)" in this context? Is there a synonym?
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