Discussion Groups / English Usage / August 2009

Hello:

The "emerged," does it relate here to:

- showing up surprisingly in the modest neighbourghood?
- getting into the way of the traffic? (I see this as less probable,
but ...)

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[The visit by the Catholic archbishop creates a hubbub in this area of
Malta. ]

[Everybody's running to kiss his hand] ... even the drivers and
conductors of the three converging buses whose passages the emerged
Daimler blocked.

Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, p. 17
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Thanks.
Marius Hancu