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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 With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
according
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
all
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
ambiguity
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
amidstprepositionUS /əˈmɪdst/
in the middle of; surrounded by
From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
assured
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
attached
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
awful
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
became
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
bent
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
combined
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
common
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
comprehension
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
conflicting
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
connected
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
consulted
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
contradictory
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
cultivated
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
dark
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
daughter
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
destined
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
devotedly
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
distinct
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
doom
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
doubtful
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
Earl
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
Edith
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
Edith's
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
entangled
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
equallynounUS /ˈequally/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
events
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
farthest
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
fate
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
favourable
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
form
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
future
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
Germanic
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
gloomy
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
Harold
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
heart
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
heathens
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
Hilda
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
human
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
induce
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
interests
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
interpretation
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
interwoven
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
involving
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
ken
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
known
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
lands
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
lights
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
lost
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
love
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
magic
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
malignant
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
man
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
meshes
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
mightiest
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
more
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
most
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
obscured
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
obstinately
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
omens
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
operating
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
oracles
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
own
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
partook
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
peculiar
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
penetrating
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
persuasion
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
popularly
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
powersnounUS /powers/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
pride
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
princely
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
propheticadjectiveUS /prəˈfɛtɪk/
suggesting what will happen in the future
From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
race
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
remotest
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
responses
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
Scandinavian
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
securing
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
seen
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
sense
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From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
shadows
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
sinister
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
sympathy
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
tenets
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From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
throne
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
times
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From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading That fate, involving the mightiest interests of a great race, and connected with events operating on the farthest times and the remotest lands, lost itself to her prophetic ken amidst omens the most contradictory, shadows and lights the most conflicting, meshes the most entangled.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
vaticinations
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From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
whateverdeterminerUS /ˌwʌˈtevər/
any or all of a kind, it does not matter which
From this reading But according to the tenets of that peculiar form of magic cultivated by Hilda, the comprehension became obscured by whatever partook of human sympathy.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
wholly
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
whompronounUS /huːm/
the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Her human heart, devotedly attached to the Earl, through her love for Edith,--her pride obstinately bent on securing to the last daughter of her princely race that throne, which all her vaticinations, even when most gloomy, assured her was destined to the man with whom Edith’s doom was interwoven, combined to induce her to the most favourable interpretation of all that seemed sinister and doubtful.
witchcraft
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From this reading It was a magic wholly distinct from the malignant witchcraft more popularly known to us, and which was equally common to the Germanic and Scandinavian heathens.
WithprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
withoutprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
