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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 There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
back
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
bare-legged
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
bitts
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
boat
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
boat-steerer
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
bottom
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
bruises
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
bunk
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
caring
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
concealed
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
crawled
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
cursing
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
dealverbUS /diːl/
act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
dim
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
down
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
edge
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
feet
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
find
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
flared
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
fumbling
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
groaning
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
Harrison
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
hold
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
hurts
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
joint
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
knockin
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
ladder
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
laid
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
Leach
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
light
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
man
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
matches
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
men
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
moved
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
nursing
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
Oofty-Oofty
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
out
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
Parsons
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
Parsons's
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
place
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
puller
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
pulling
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
said
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
saturnine
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
scratching
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
sea-lamp
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
sitting
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
smoky
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
snapping
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
SomebodypronounUS /ˈsʌmbɑːdi/
a person, without saying who
From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
Standish's
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
stoutly
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
strike
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
swarthy
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
There
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From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
thumb
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From this reading Oofty-Oofty laid hold of Parsons’s thumb, pulling it out stoutly and snapping it back into place.
thumb's
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From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
up
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.
weird
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From this reading There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading “Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
You'll
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From this reading “You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.
