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190
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
aboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
afternoonnounUS /ˈafternoon/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
air
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
all
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
amongstprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋst/
surrounded by; in the company of
From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
April
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
attack
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
billowy
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
blossom
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
blue
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
brokennounUS /broken/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
burned
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
clear
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
clouds
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
colour
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
congeries
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
constant
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
covering
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
crowding
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
crowned
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
day
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
EachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
edge
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
emergent
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
far
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
fellow-clouds
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
firmament
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
fittedadjectiveUS /ˈfɪtɪd/
prepared and equipped for a particular purpose
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
fixed
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From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
fixity
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
fleecy
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
flight
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
flower
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
forth
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
gentian
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
gleam
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
gleamed
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
grass
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
High
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
higher
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
InprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
ineffable
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
Infinite
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From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
innumerable
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
insects
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
journeys
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
Kensington
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
leading
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
like
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
massed
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
million
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From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
nearly
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
onslaught
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
other
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
outline
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
pair
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
patch
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
preserved
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
round
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
sea
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
separate
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From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
setting
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
shaped
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
side
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
single
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
sky
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
small
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
soft
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
somewhat
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
star
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
starry
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
Street
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From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
stronger
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
surviving
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From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved; on the other, higher, stronger, emergent from their fellow-clouds, they seemed leading the attack on that surviving gleam of the ineffable.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
thinadjectiveUS /θɪn/
Having little thickness or extent.
From this reading In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190--, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington.
ThisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
too
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
tumult
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
unchanging
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From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
unity
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From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
unseen
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
vapours
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From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
variety
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From this reading Infinite was the variety of those million separate vapours, infinite the unchanging unity of that fixed blue star.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
ways
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed--a single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass.
wings
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From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their too constant journeys, they were setting forth all ways round this starry blossom which burned so clear with the colour of its far fixity.
