Alice was banking on a snow day as she watched the snowflakes gather on the ground. what does the word banking mean in the context of this sentence?

  dante alighieri wrote the divine comedy, a description of a spititual journey. when he wrote it , he was in exile. in florence, dante's native city, there was a social strife, they had political turmoil, and some of the   florentine names included in the narrative may have been a way that dante used to criticize his fellow citizens.

the narrator closes the lantern tightly so the old man is

not awakened by the bright light

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