Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed . . . it is very well known, that they are every day dying . . . as fast as can be reasonably expected.
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The best definition i would say is C
The answer to your question would be A. Planes.
The way it heads to Liesel’s unlikely friendship with the wife of the Mayor, and how this friendship directs her to uncover the fierce sadness of desolation of the Mayor’s wife’s life and how she in a lot of ways is living like a dead person, although she’s still alive, is one of interesting things about Liesel’s book thievery.