If you had put one simple suspicion in my soul, you might have hindered me from making the egregious blunder for which i still blush, and which my husband will laugh at until his death. based on context clues, what does egregious mean in the excerpt? intentional modest petty scandalous

The hawks are an allegory for the dangers the boy is about to encounter in the desert.which quotation from the alchemist best supports this statement? "sit down. we'll have something to drink and eat these hawks,' said the alchemist.""he watched the hawks as they drifted on the wind. although their flight appeared to have no pattern, it made a certain kind of sensetthe boy.""suddenly, one of the hawks made a flashing dive through the sky, attacking the other. as it did so, a sudden, fleeting image came to tboy."o "who dares to read the meaning of the flight of the hawks? ' he "

In one sentence of approximately 15 to 25 words, write the main idea that thomas paine wants to convert to all the readers of the declaration of independence

This excerpt is repeated several times. what effect does this repetition have on the epic