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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 Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
all
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
always
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
Atlantic
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
brilliance
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
called
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
came
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From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
CaptainnounUS /ˈcaptain/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
child
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
contentment
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
days
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
decked
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From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
delight
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
delightful
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
devote
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
elbow
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
eyes
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
fashioning
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
folded
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From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
fronting
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
frost-jewels
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From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
happy
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
ice
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
jack-knife
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
January
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
keen
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
knife
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
Like
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
lonely
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
magic
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
mantlenounUS /ˈmæntəl/
a loose covering like a cloak
From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
months
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
much
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
northern
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
occupy
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
out-of-doors
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
passednounUS /passed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
peace
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
perfect
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
pillar
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
Quietly
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
rock
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
sat
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
season
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
shone
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
sitting
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
SoconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
sorts
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
Star
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From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
summer
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
sun
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From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
surge
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
there
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
times
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To the child Star, winter was always a season of great delight; for Captain January had little to occupy him out-of-doors, and could devote much of his time to her.
tower
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
trifles
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
watching
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From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
weeks
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From this reading Quietly passed the days, the weeks, the months, in the lonely tower on the rock fronting the Atlantic surge.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
white
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From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
Winter
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From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Winter came, and folded it in a white mantle, and decked it with frost-jewels.
withinprepositionUS /wɪˈðɪn/
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading Like a pillar of ice, the tower shone in the keen brilliance of the northern sun; but within was always summer, the summer of perfect peace and contentment.
wonderfulnounUS /ˈwonderful/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading So there were long, delightful “jack-knife times,” as Star called them, when the Captain sat fashioning all sorts of wonderful trifles with his magic knife, the child sitting at his elbow and watching him with happy eyes.
