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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 Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
againstprepositionUS /əˈɡenst/
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
agitation
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
all
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
alternate
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
Banco
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
blockhead
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
bloodnounUS /blood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
breed
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From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
canmodal verbUS /kæn/
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
central
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
Citta
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
cold
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From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
common
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
country
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
cursed
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
decided
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
del
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
desperadoes
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From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
di
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
distinction
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
drawing
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
excitement
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
eye
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
fails
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From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
fatuity
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
few
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
fraud
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
Gambling
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From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
game
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
Government
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
guilty
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
hatred
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
headquarters
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
held
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
hostage
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
impoverishment
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
inconsistency
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
inevitable
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From this reading That was inevitable.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
King's
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
lot
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
Lotto
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
mad
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
mite
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
noon
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
numbers
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
only
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
out
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
Palace
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
Palazzo
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
parishes
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
Piémontais
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
place
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
poornounUS /poor/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
recurrently
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
Regio
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
remotest
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
rob
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
royal
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
ruined
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
Saturday
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
Savoyard
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
sight
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
stone's
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
stoodnounUS /stood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
subjects
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
succeeds
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From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
ThatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That was inevitable.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
There
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
thousand
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From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
throw
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
thus
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
tooknounUS /took/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
transmitted
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
usurers
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From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
usurious
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From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
victim
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
vowed
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There, every alternate Saturday at noon, the drawing of the numbers took place, and the impoverishment of a few thousand King’s subjects, guilty of nothing but fatuity, was decided by lot.
watching
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From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading Gambling in cold blood can only breed usurers where it succeeds, and desperadoes where it fails.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading It was a recurrently mad time, whose agitation was transmitted to remotest parishes all over the country--only with this distinction: the Piémontais, watching the central game, was held hostage to its excitement; the poor Savoyard, ruined out of sight, cursed himself for a blockhead victim to fraud, and, with the common inconsistency, vowed hatred against a Government which could thus rob him of his mite.
WithinprepositionUS /wɪˈðɪn/
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading Within a stone’s throw of the royal Palace, under its usurious eye, as it were, stood the Palazzo di Citta, the headquarters of the Banco del Regio Lotto.
