Answer:
Sleights means the use of dexterity or cunning, especially so as to deceive.
Explanation:
This is what this word means but I can't tell you how the context lead me to this because I don't have the passage it came from.
The first time Odysseus showed his arrogance is when he won the battle at Troy. He yells out to the gods that he doesn't need them. Also, he does not give a sacrifice to the gods for helping the Greeks win the victory. ... In return for his arrogance, the gods create a difficult journey home for Odysseus.
Answer:
"The boat was nearing a dangerous part of the river."
Explanation:
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Charles Dickens was the most remarkable Victorian writer. While he was alive, his works counted with great popularity among all social classes, especially with proletariat, a class which dreadful conditions Dickens denounced through his novels.
When he was twelve years old, he found himself in the necessity to work to help in his home. Despite things got better and there was no need of Charles' money in the house, his mother was not willing to let him stop working and that was a decision the future author of <em>Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities </em>and <em>Oliver Twist</em>, among others, would never forget or forgive.
Orphanhood, poverty, upper classes' abuse, proletariat, loneliness and the promise of and ending that would heal the characters' suffering throughout the story, are the main element of a novelist whose purpose was not only to entertain, but to raise awareness of how the difference between social classes made the most vulnerable pay for their uncommitted sins.
