Excerpt from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
- A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The
man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a
stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties
supporting the rails of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners -- two private soldiers of the Federal
army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff. At a short remove upon the same
temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed. He was a captain.
es - The BEST definition for the word remove as used in this passage is
A
go away.
B)
eliminate.
change to another location.
D
distance between two things.
