Arts (English Medium) इयत्ता १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Elective - NCERT

Notice the spelling of the following words

The ‘e’ that was used in Donne’s period got dropped from English orthography later. Pick out the other words in the poem that have this peculiar feature.

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I never saw her again or even wondered about her until I heard about the snake ring on the woman who died in the Havana Riviera disaster.

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That did not surprise me, however, because I had always thought her dreams were no more than a stratagem for surviving.

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Although she did not say so, her conversation made it clear that dream by dream, she had taken over the entire fortune of her ineffable patrons in Vienna.

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Three tables away sat an intrepid woman in an old-fashioned felt hat and a purple scarf, eating without haste and staring at him.

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I stayed in Vienna for more than a month, sharing the straitened circumstances of the other students while I waited for money that never arrived.