Twas a paved track, a path that kept them in marching order. their mail-shirts glinted, hard and hand-linked; the high-gloss iron of their armour rang. –beowulf: a new verse translation, seamus heaney read the passage about beowulf’s followers. which inference is best supported by the passage? the warriors do not trust their leader. the warriors are lost. the warriors are disciplined and well equipped.

What is the effect of the author's choice of the word loathsome rather than hateful in this sentence from the count of monte cristo? two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration. it reveals that the unpleasant aspects of the stairway are manmade. it stresses the disgusting, offensive nature of the stairway. it suggests that the soldiers are used to the place and do not hate it. it implies that the effects of the stairway are felt only by the inspector.