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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 and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
acrossprepositionUS /əˈkrɔːs/
from one side of something to the other
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
alreadynounUS /already/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
AmidprepositionUS /əˈmɪd/
in the middle of; surrounded by
From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
apparel
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
appear
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
bodies
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
breach
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
brokennounUS /broken/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
buried
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
burnt-out
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From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
children's
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clothes
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collecting
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crash
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
days
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
doors
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
dropped
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
duringprepositionUS /ˈdʊrɪŋ/
all through a period, or at some point within it
From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
Early
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
encumbering
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
EvennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
faces
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
falling
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
fatigue
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few
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
fires
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
flood
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furniture
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
hangings
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
HepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
heap
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From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
horror
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
house
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
houses
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
hundreds
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
indeed
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
inhabitants
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
keeping
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
kindling
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
lay
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
loot
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
mirrors
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
musketsnounUS /ˈmuskets/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
near
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
nextnounUS /next/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
overwhelmed
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
parties
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passednounUS /passed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
persuade
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
picked
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
pillagers
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
remainednounUS /ˈremained/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
rubble
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
ruins
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said
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
San
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From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
sat
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
scarcely
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
sea-wall
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From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
Sebastian
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From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
see
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
Sergeant
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set
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
shattered
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
sticks
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
stir
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
stones
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
streets
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stupid
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
three
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
thus
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From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
town
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unburied
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valueless
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very
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From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
way
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
well
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Wilkes
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From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
windwardnounUS /ˈwindward/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Early next morning Sergeant Wilkes picked his way across the ruins of the great breach and into the town, keeping well to windward of the fatigue parties already kindling fires and collecting the dead bodies that remained unburied.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading He passed a very few inhabitants, and these said nothing to him; indeed, did not appear to see him, but sat by the ruins of their houses with faces set in a stupid horror.
WithinprepositionUS /wɪˈðɪn/
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading Within and along the sea-wall San Sebastian was a heap of burnt-out ruins.
women's
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Even the crash of a falling house near by would scarcely persuade them to stir, and hundreds during the last three days had been overwhelmed thus and buried.
wreckage
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
wrenched
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From this reading Amid the stones and rubble encumbering the streets, lay broken muskets, wrenched doors, shattered sticks of furniture-- mirrors, hangings, women's apparel, children's clothes--loot dropped by the pillagers as valueless, wreckage of the flood.
