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   Hi, August Abolins! ->Alexander Koryagin   
   I read your message from 26.12.2019 21:00   
      
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   With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall,   
   turned sharply as if he were on a wire, and disappeared into the living-   
   room. It wasn't a bit funny. Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I   
   pulled the door to against the increasing rain.   
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    AK>> Is "against" a verb?   
      
    AA> What a strange sentence Fitzgerald is using! At first, I thought   
    AA> this was a printing error. But lo and behold, it is exactly the   
    AA> same in physical print. The sentence would sound better to me   
    AA> without the "to" in front of "against" and still render the meaning   
    AA> well enough.   
      
    AA> But apparently, Fitz is using an archaic form of "against" as a   
    AA> conjunction. The use of the word hear is to mean "in preparation of   
    AA> time or a delay" or "to oppose" something.   
      
    AA> I've read the book many years ago, and don't recall too many issues   
    AA> like the above. I probably just assumed they were printing errors   
    AA> and moved on.   
      
   I also tried to find some information on this account, and I found out that   
   "pull to" is an idiom, and when used with "door" it means:   
      
   https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+to   
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   2. To drag, tug, or yank something shut. A noun or pronoun is used between   
   "pull" and "to."   
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   So in normal language the sentence will look like this:   
      
   "... I closed the door because the rain was increasing."   
      
   Bye, August!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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