Книга: GRANT, HOLLY «LEAGUE OF BEASTLY DREADFULS 1»
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Производитель: "Неизвестный" After Anastasia McCrumpet`s parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident, she`s rescued by two long lost great-aunties and taken to their delightful and, er, `authentic` Victorian home, St. Agony`s Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There, Anastasia`s loving aunties give her everything a little girl could want: a cozy bedroom (with a creepy child-shaped hollow in its rotting cot), sumptuous meals (Mmmmm! Mystery Lumps!), and character-building responsibilities (catching leeches! polishing chamber pots!). But Anastasia can`t help notice that something strange is going on at the asylum. What`s this mysterious C. R. U. D. organization she hears whispers of? Is it odd that her Aunties wear the same ring as the evil school secretary? And why, for goodness sake, do they collect pictures of missing children? Anastasia soon begins to suspect that her aunties are not who they say they are. So when she meets Ollie and Quentin, two magical brothers hidden in the depths of the asylum, the three... ISBN:9780385370073 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2015)
ISBN: 9780385370073 |
Grant
Grant Grant (gr[.a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Granted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Granting}.] [OE. graunten, granten, OF. graanter,
craanter, creanter, to promise, yield, LL. creantare to
promise, assure, for (assumed LL.) credentare to make
believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See
{Creed}, {Credit}.]
1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the
possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to
petition.
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Grant me the place of this threshing floor. --1
Chron. xxi.
22.
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2. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation,
particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
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Wherefore did God grant me my request. --Milton.
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3. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to
yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
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Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree.
--Dryden.
Syn: Syn.-- To give; confer; bestow; convey; transfer; admit; allow; concede. See {Give}. [1913 Webster]
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