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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 A year passed; a year and three months.
almost
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A year passed; a year and three months.
appeasedverbUS /əˈpiːzd/
made less angry or upset
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
approaching
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
attacking
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Attacks
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
bachelor
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From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
Blochii
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Boxing
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
busy
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
cautious
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Christmas
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
churchyard
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From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
concurrently
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
confoundedadjectiveUS /kənˈfaʊndɪd/
annoying or confusing
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Cornwall
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Day
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
Description
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
devoted
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
doctornounUS /doctor/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
dog
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Dogs
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
down
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
drewnounUS /drew/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
enclosurenounUS /ˈenclosure/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
fall
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
flew
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
furious
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
fury
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
hand
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
History
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Homer
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
hour
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
informs
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Institution
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
intended
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Journal
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Kind
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
laid
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From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
Letauxiliary verbUS /let/
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Loudon's
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Magazine
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
man's
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
mastiffs
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Meeting
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Methods
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
months
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From this reading A year passed; a year and three months.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
mouths
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Mrs
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From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
Natural
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
near
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
offensive
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Old
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From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
OnprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
openverbUS /ˈoʊ.pən/
To move from a closed position.
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
other
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
papers
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
passagenounUS /ˈpassage/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
passednounUS /passed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A year passed; a year and three months.
professional
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
Puckey
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From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
reached
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
remainednounUS /ˈremained/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
Royal
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
sage
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
sat
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Savagery
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
second
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
sitting
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
Soon
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
St
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
Stephen's
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
stranger
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
striking
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
th
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
three
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From this reading A year passed; a year and three months.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
treatises
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
Trigla
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
truncheon
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
two
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Ulysses
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
visits
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From this reading On the morning of St Stephen's (or Boxing) Day, his professional visits over, he devoted an hour to the second of these treatises.
vulgarly
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Old Mrs Puckey was dead and laid in churchyard, and the doctor remained a bachelor.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
withstand
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From this reading He had reached this striking passage,-- 'Homer informs us that the fury of a dog in attacking an approaching stranger is appeased by the man's sitting down:-- '"Soon as Ulysses near th' enclosure drew, With open mouths the furious mastiffs flew: Down sat the sage and, cautious to withstand, Let fall th' offensive truncheon from his hand."
written
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From this reading Christmas found him busy upon two papers written almost concurrently: the one 'A Description of a Kind of Trigla vulgarly confounded with Trigla Blochii,' intended for Loudon's 'Magazine of Natural History,' the other, 'On Savagery in Dogs and Methods of Meeting their Attacks,' for the _Journal_ of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
year
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From this reading A year passed; a year and three months.
