Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[David Morris]

Grace used here might literally mean time, but a fuller meaning would be a
period of being free from harm.


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Okay, thinking about the grace as time thing. It holds possibilities as a
> secular definition.
>
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>  p. 970...After Reef has had the drop taken on them by three Albanians,
>> and Reef says the gleam from barrels
>> all around and says he is a dead duck in Albanian...which
>>
>> "'Buys' him a minute and a half of grace", "which turns out to be just
>> enough"....
>>
>> Grace here meaning time, of course,
>>
>> And I think that is no accident or outlier use and dovetails nicely with
>> other uses....
>>
>>
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