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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 I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
AndconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
aroundprepositionUS /ərˈaʊnd/
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
away
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
awed
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
beads
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
Benjamin
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
brokennounUS /broken/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
car
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
car-wheels
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
Carew
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
clatter
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
clinched
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
crouched
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
darling's
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
death
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
dew
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
died
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
down
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
dreamed
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
face
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
forehead
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
FRANKLYN
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From this reading GRANDMOTHER FRANKLYN.
glistening
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
grand
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
GRANDMOTHER
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From this reading GRANDMOTHER FRANKLYN.
H
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From this reading H. HEINE.
half-averted
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
handsplural nounUS /hændz/
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
HEINE
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From this reading H. HEINE.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
home
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
hushed
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
Kathleen
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
Kathleen's
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
league
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
Lies
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
lips
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
many
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
moon
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
Old
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
only
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
pain-drawn
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
pale
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
parlornounUS /ˈpɑːrlər/
an old-fashioned sitting room
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
rails
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
ray
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
rushed
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
sadly
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
seat
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
see
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
silently
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From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
sobnounUS /sɒb/
a sudden deep breath caused by emotion
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
stars
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
steel
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
stoodnounUS /stood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Old Benjamin Carew crouched silently in his seat, with clinched hands and half-averted face, but Kathleen could see that he was pale as death, and beads of dew stood on his forehead and around his pain-drawn lips.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
there
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
town
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
troubled
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From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
voice
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From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Kathleen's awed voice died away in a hushed sob, and in the grand parlor car there was a dead silence, broken only by the clatter of the car-wheels as they rushed over the glistening steel rails.
wentnounUS /went/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down, And the stars with a troubled ray; I went to my darling's home--the town Lies many a league away.
