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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 "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Abysmal
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
againnounUS /again/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
againstprepositionUS /əˈɡenst/
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
ago
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
Aileen
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
all
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
arrival
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
Author
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
Battery
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
BeneathprepositionUS /bɪˈniːθ/
Directly under; in or to a lower position than.
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Bess
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
caressingly
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Carver
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
century
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
Champney
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
chance
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
charmed
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Citizen
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
Commerce
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
cry
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
daily
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
Daughter
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
deeps
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
depths
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
diver
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
down
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Epic
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
etc
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
eye
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
far
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
few
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
finenounUS /fine/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The scenic setting is in this instance incomparably fine.
glide
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
gold
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Googe's
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
guise
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
held
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
herenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
heroic
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
HisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
ideal
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
immigrant
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
incomparably
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From this reading The scenic setting is in this instance incomparably fine.
instance
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From this reading The scenic setting is in this instance incomparably fine.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The scenic setting is in this instance incomparably fine.
Island
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
keel
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
knelt
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
land
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
laps
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
leaning
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Lieu
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
life-drama
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
LittlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
loved
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Lympus
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
made
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Manhattan
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
masquerading
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
million-teeming
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
naked
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
named
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
narrow
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
national
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
Nations
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
nineteenth
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
old
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
Outweighs
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
patient
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
pause
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
picture
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
plunge
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Preface
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
present
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
presented
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
recall
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
repose
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
return
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Rich
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
rocky
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
safe
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
sang
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
scene
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
scenic
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From this reading The scenic setting is in this instance incomparably fine.
setting
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From this reading The scenic setting is in this instance incomparably fine.
ShepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
shipnounUS /ship/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
ship's
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
smile
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
solution
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
stout
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
straight
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
strip
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
surface
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
then
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
there
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
ThosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
tip
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
TonguenounUS /tongue/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
Unworthy
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
verse
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
very
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
visible
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From this reading The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was still visible to the naked eye, and masquerading here among us of the then nineteenth century in the guise of the arrival of the immigrant ship.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
well
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
WhatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
whereon
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
withinprepositionUS /wɪˈðɪn/
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
withoutprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
Wood
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From this reading Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The Little Citizen," etc.
World
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From this reading The Battery in Lieu of a Preface A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World," the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution, a great national ideal.
worth
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
years
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From this reading "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause" "Those present loved in after years to recall this scene" "What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and patient Bess" "'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before Aileen" "_Abysmal deeps repose Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide; And if a diver plunge far down within Those depths and to the surface safe return, His smile, if so it chance he smile again, Outweighs in worth all gold._"
