Chapter XXVIII

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

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From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

From this reading CHAUCER: _Knight’s Tale_.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages

From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

ten 10s

From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

possessive form of “knight” — originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

From this reading CHAUCER: _Knight’s Tale_.

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From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965)

From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

possessing qualities befitting a man

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

an established line of travel or access

From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

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From this reading * * * * His lange heer was kembd byhynde his bak As eny ravenes fether it schon for-blak.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)

From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading CHAUCER: _Knight’s Tale_.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

a just detectable amount

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading ‘The grete kyng of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face.

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From this reading * * * * An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.’

in the company of; together with

From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.

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From this reading The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bytwixe yolw and reed, And lyk a griffoun loked he aboute, With kempe herés on his browés stoute, His limés grete, his braunes harde and stronge, His shuldres brode, his armés rounde and longe.