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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
acting
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
addressed
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
ample
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
amusing
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
assistant
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
away
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
bank
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
best
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
Bible
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
book
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
came
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
charcoal-burner
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
child
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
church
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
clearing
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
clothes
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
conundrums
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
Cyril
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
dinner
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
disparaging
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
donned
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
down
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
edge
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
employment
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
enough
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
eye
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
farther
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
fetched
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
finished
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
found
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
Fräulein
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
gathered
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
going
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
grass
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
history
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
host's
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
hours
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
household
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
housekeeping
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
hut
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
interlarding
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
keeping
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
King
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
labours
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
lake
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
lay
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
little
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
making
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
natural
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
nearer
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
now
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
occupations
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
Ortojuk
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
passed
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
peremptorily
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
physics
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
pleasantly
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
pocket
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
preparations
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
produced
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
propound
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
putting
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
Queen
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
refused
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
remarks
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
river
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
sameadjectiveUS /seɪm/
Identical; not different.
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
sat
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
share
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
side
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
started
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
Staubach
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
story
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
style
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
Sunday
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
tasks
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
teaching
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
telling
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
texts
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From this reading She produced a book from her pocket, and Cyril gathered that she was telling the King a Bible story and teaching him texts.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
then
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
tidy
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
time
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
tree
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From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
valley
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From this reading The hours of that Sunday passed pleasantly enough by the side of the lake in the valley.
vigilant
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
village
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
von
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From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
watched
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
water's
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From this reading Cyril, who had been peremptorily refused a share in their labours, lay upon the grass and watched them, keeping at the same time a vigilant eye on the little King, who was amusing himself at the water’s edge, and came to him now and then to propound conundrums in physics and natural history.
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading When the Queen had finished her household tasks she fetched the child away, and sat down with him under a tree at the farther side of the clearing.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The charcoal-burner donned his best clothes and started for church, going not to Ortojuk, but to a village on the nearer bank of the river, and Fräulein von Staubach found ample employment in putting the hut tidy and making preparations for dinner, interlarding these occupations with disparaging remarks on their host’s style of housekeeping, addressed to the Queen, who was acting as her assistant.
