All 13 Uses
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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- Plans were therefore made to flee as soon as their ship was sighted.†
p. 30.2 *therefore = for that reason
- I called to my brother, knowing that he was very curious and therefore would be in the way of the men who were working.†
p. 36.7
- As is the custom, therefore, I will have to whip you with a switch of nettles and then tie you to a red-ant hill.†
p. 42.2
- Ramo therefore would have to become a man sooner than if we were not alone, since I would need his help in many ways.†
p. 43.6
- I therefore traveled fast and before night fell I reached the place where I had decided to live until the ship returned.†
p. 48.2
- I therefore kept them on my left hand, as well as the island, which grew smaller and smaller, behind me.†
p. 59.5
- I therefore moved faster than during the night.†
p. 61.7
- The rocks were not so high as those on the headland and therefore would give me less protection from the wind, yet they were high enough, and from them I could see the north coast and Coral Cove.†
p. 67.4
- I therefore did not aim my spear at it, but picked up the paddle and waited until he appeared.†
p. 99.9
- I therefore braced myself and did not move.†
p. 117.1
- I therefore had to gather roots.†
p. 129.7
- I therefore set out on the first fair morning to search for whatever wreckage the waves had washed ashore.†
p. 164.5
- The planks were all about the same size, the length of my arm, but they came from different canoes and were therefore hard to fit together.†
p. 165.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(therefore) for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)