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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 PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
acrossprepositionUS /əˈkrɔːs/
from one side of something to the other
From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
Adventure
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
Arbuthnot
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
back
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From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
bar
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
bargain
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
Blackbeard's
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
board
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
boatswainnounUS /ˈboʊsən/
an officer responsible for deck crew and equipment
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
caused
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
Charles
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
clouds
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
CouncilnounUS /council/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
coursenounUS /course/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
crewnounUS /crew/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
dear
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
detained
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
drove
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From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
endeavored
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
errand
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
fever-smitten
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
finding
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
FORBES
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
forced
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
grizzled
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From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
harbor
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From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
heart
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
HISdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
honorable
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
hostages
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
humiliating
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
ITpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
lose
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
medicines
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
most
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MOURNS
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
MR
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From this reading MR.
NEPHEW
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
nick
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From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
other
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
own
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
perform
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
PETER
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
piratesnounUS /ˈpirates/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
Plymouth
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
portents
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
put
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From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
recalled
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From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
returning
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
rogues
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
sailnounUS /sail/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
sake
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
scarred
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From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
seamen
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
Secretary
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
seems
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
shelter
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From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
storm
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
story
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
ThesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
TheypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
threatening
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From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
tiller
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From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
Town
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From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
very
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From this reading They put about and drove back into the harbor for shelter in the very nick of time.
violentnounUS /ˈviolent/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW IT seems a long time, in the course of this story, since the honorable Secretary of the Council, Mr. Peter Arbuthnot Forbes, was forced to sail in to Charles Town from the _Plymouth Adventure_ on that most humiliating errand of finding medicines for Blackbeard's fever-smitten rogues.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading For the sake of his own dear nephew and the other hostages detained on board, he had endeavored to perform his bargain and was returning across the bar when the threatening clouds and other portents of a violent storm caused the seamen to lose heart.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading These were pirates from Blackbeard's crew, it may be recalled, with his grizzled, scarred boatswain at the tiller.
