a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
apaceadverbUS /əˈpeɪs/
(poetic, literary) quickly
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
BatterynounUS /ˈbætəri/
group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
BowlingnounUS /ˈboʊlɪŋ/
a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
caresnounUS /kerz/
plural of “care” — the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
churchyards
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From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
the body of faculty and students of a college
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
greatly pleased
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
distractverbUS /dɪˈstrækt/
draw someone's attention away from something
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
the state or fact of existing
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
the organ of sight
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
more distant in especially space or time
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
plural of “feature” — a prominent attribute or aspect of something
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
plural of “flower” — a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
fountainnounUS /ˈfaʊntən/
a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
fragrantadjectiveUS /ˈfreɪɡrənt/
pleasant-smelling
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
a young female
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
shoot down, of birds
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
groundsnounUS /ɡraʊndz/
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
grown-up
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From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
honeysucklenounUS /ˈhʌnisʌkəl/
shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
how
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inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
knowledges
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the land on which real estate is located
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
lilacsnounUS /ˈlaɪlæks/
plural of “lilac” — any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
OPHIR
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From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
patchesnounUS /ˈpætʃəz/
plural of “patch” — a small contrasting part of something
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
Paul'snounUS /pɔːlz/
possessive form of “paul” — United States feminist (1885-1977)
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
pinxter
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From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
the season of growth
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
squaresnounUS /skwerz/
plural of “square” — (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
St
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used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
in or at that place or location
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
tranquiladjectiveUS /ˈtræŋkwəl/
(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading Trees and grass and flowers delighted the eye, and lilacs made the air fragrant.
TrinitynounUS /ˈtrɪnəti/
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
up-town
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From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
From this reading All up the country ways there were patches of wild honeysuckle,--pinxter flowers, as it was called.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The Battery, the Bowling Green, City Hall Park, with its fountain, the College grounds, Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards, and the squares coming into existence farther up-town.
past form of “wonder” — have a wish or desire to know something
From this reading The little girl had so many things to distract her attention that she wondered how grown-up people could be so tranquil with all their knowledges and their cares.
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading THE LAND OF OPHIR Spring came on apace, and spring in New York had many beautiful features then.
