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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 climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
acrossprepositionUS /əˈkrɔːs/
from one side of something to the other
From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Here at least was peace.
back
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
Bareheaded
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
blue
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
bosom
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
breaking
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
climbed
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
close
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
clouds
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
creeks
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
down
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
faintly
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
grassy
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
green
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
Hall
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
heat
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
HerenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Here at least was peace.
herselfpronounUS /hərˈself/
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
Inland
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
Jeanne
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
knoll
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
land
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
lavender
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
leastnounUS /least/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Here at least was peace.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
marshes
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
met
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
pasture-land
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
patches
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
peace
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From this reading Here at least was peace.
sands
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
sea
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
seawards
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
ShepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
sinuous
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
sky
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
softly
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
steadily
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
stealing
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
stretched
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
sun's
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
threw
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
turf
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
turned
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From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
vivid
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
walked
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
warm
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From this reading She climbed on to a grassy knoll, warm with the sun's heat, and threw herself down upon the turf.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Here at least was peace.
wastenounUS /weɪst/
an empty, uncultivated area of land
From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
waves
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading She turned her back upon the Hall and looked steadily seawards, across the waste of sands and pasture-land to where sky and sea met.
wild
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From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Inland stretched the marshes, with their patches of vivid green, their clouds of faintly blue wild lavender, their sinuous creeks stealing into the bosom of the land.
yellow
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From this reading Bareheaded, Jeanne walked upon the yellow sands close to the softly breaking waves.
