Read this line from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
Read these lines from Macbeth:The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:Now spurs the lated traveller apace,To gain the timely inn; and near approachesThe subject of our watch.Which of the following correctly describes how the word gain is used here?…