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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 Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
aboard
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admit
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From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
AfterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
all
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
almost
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
alonenounUS /alone/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
apartments
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Arcadian
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areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
attain
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
canmodal verbUS /kæn/
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
car
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
Carpathia
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
chaperoning
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
compartments
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completenounUS /complete/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
country
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
curtain
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door
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
DORMITORY
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doubt
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From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
dwell
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eachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
earned
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
earth
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From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
else
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
everybodypronounUS /ˈevribɑːdi/
every person
From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
everybody's
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
famous
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
fashion
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
guarded
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
history
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
hotels
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
human
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
indeed
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
inhabitants
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
institutions
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
locks
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
meagre
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
miscellaneous
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
moral
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From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
most
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
motives
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
mustmodal verbUS /mʌst/
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
nation
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From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
negro
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
notions
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
OfprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
ONprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
once
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
only
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
other's
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
ourselvespronounUS /aʊərˈselvz/
used when we are both doing the action and receiving it
From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
Perhaps
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
plank
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promiscuity
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prosperity
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prove
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questionnounUS /ˈquestion/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
real
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regarded
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
respectability
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
room
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
separated
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
shocking
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
side
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
sleep
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
sleeping
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
sleepy
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
staterooms
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
suspicion
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
sustenance
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
taking
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
themselvespronounUS /ðemˈselvz/
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
There
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From this reading There can be no doubt that we are the most moral nation on earth, for we admit it ourselves.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
too
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
topsy-turvied
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
train
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From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
travelers
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
two-story
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From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
used
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
washing
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From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
WHEELS
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From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading Perhaps we prove it, too, by the Arcadian prosperity of these two-story hotels on wheels, where miscellaneous travelers dwell in complete promiscuity, and sleep almost side by side, in apartments, or compartments, separated only by a plank and a curtain, and guarded only by one sleepy negro.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading After the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meagre sustenance by taking in each other's washing, so in Sleeping Carpathia we attain a meagre respectability by everybody's chaperoning everybody else.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our notions, once we are aboard a train, that the staterooms alone are regarded with suspicion; we question the motives of those who must have a room to themselves!--a room with a real door! that locks!!
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading THE DORMITORY ON WHEELS Of all the shocking institutions in human history, the sleeping car is the most shocking--or would be, if we were not so used to it.
