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Essays of Travel

Chapter XIV · Chapter 14

Chapter 14 of Essays of Travel is here in full — 123 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.
There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.
It is not bedotted with artists sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.
The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’
If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.
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Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Essays of Travel

Chapter XIV · Chapter 14

Chapter 14 of Essays of Travel is here in full — 123 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.
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There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.
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It is not bedotted with artistssunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.
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The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’
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If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

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Nights noun US /naɪts/

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From this reading “THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.”

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a

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

about

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

agitated

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

all

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

among

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

an

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

and

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

any

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

are

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

artists

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

as

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

at

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

attention

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

avec

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

avenue

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

be

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

bedotted

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

beginning

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

best

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

bestrewn

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

brought

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

by

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

chill

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

coign

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

cold

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

country

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

court

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

de

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

different

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

dinner

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

distract

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

do

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

douze

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

down

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

each

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

early

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

English

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

et

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

fallen

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

far-away

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

fond

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

for

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

forest

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

from

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

go

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

goes

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

gone

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

has

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

hear

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

heart

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

hills

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

horns

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

hunting

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

I

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

If

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

IN

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

innumerable

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

into

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

is

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

it

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

its

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

itself

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

just

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

keep

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

knees

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

leaves

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

less

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

like

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

low

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

many

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

may

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

melancholy

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

mingled

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

minutes

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

mixed

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

moment

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

monsieur

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

more

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

most

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mouth

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

mushrooms

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

neutral

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

nightsnounUS /naɪts/

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

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nor

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

not

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

of

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

on

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one

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

opens

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or

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other

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

own

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

peasant

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peep

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people

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permeates

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

picnics

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

pipuers

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

reawaken

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remains

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

rug

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salle-à-manger

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seams

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

see

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

sharp

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since

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sit

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

some

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

SPRING

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springtime

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still

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

sunshades

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

system

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

table

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ten

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

that

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

THE

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There

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

thing

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From this reading There is less to distract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself.

think

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

three

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tint

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

to

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together

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

told

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

tracts

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From this reading If you go up to some coign of vantage in the system of low hills that permeates the forest, you will see many different tracts of country, each of its own cold and melancholy neutral tint, and all mixed together and mingled the one into the other at the seams.

train

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

two

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unknown

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

up

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vantage

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Vicomte

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violets

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well

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when

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will

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with

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From this reading It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

WOODS

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From this reading THE WOODS IN SPRING I think you will like the forest best in the sharp early springtime, when it is just beginning to reawaken, and innumerable violets peep from among the fallen leaves; when two or three people at most sit down to dinner, and, at table, you will do well to keep a rug about your knees, for the nights are chill, and the salle-à-manger opens on the court.

you

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your

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à

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From this reading The hunting still goes on, and at any moment your heart may be brought into your mouth as you hear far-away horns; or you may be told by an agitated peasant that the Vicomte has gone up the avenue, not ten minutes since, ‘_à fond de train_, _monsieur_, _et avec douze pipuers_.’

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