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Miss Anna, Herr Kreutzer and the fine young man who had been kind to them, who, ten minutes earlier, had all been real and potent interests, dimmed into hazy phantoms of a bygone activity of mind Oh,--ar-r-r-r-r-r!"

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  1. noun Variant of are2.
  2. noun The letter r.

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  1. Middle English arre, from Late Latin er.

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  1. from Middle English ar, plural arres, from Anglo-Saxon er, from Latin er, the name of the letter r; from e, the usual assistant vowel, + r: see r.
 

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