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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 THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
Abol
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
ahead
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
all
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
AndconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
beech-nut
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
bellowin
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
bewilderednounUS /bewildered/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
brush
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
bunga-nucked
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
camp
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
carrying
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
chipmunk
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
Christopher
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
chuckle
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From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
cook
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
Death
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
doughnut
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
falls
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
forehead
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
fresh
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
GREATnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
HOSTAGE
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
hurried
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
hysterical
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From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
I'll
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
interior
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
jolly
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
Kindly
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From this reading Kindly Rush!'"
laid
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
lamp
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
Lazy
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
lean-to
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
light
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
lugged
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
made
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
marked
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
mystic
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
OFprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
place
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
queer
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From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
repeatednounUS /repeated/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
Round
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
rude
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
Rush
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From this reading Kindly Rush!'"
s'r
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From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
says
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From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
Set
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
SILENCEnounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
sort
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From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
started
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
suddenlynounUS /ˈsuddenly/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
Tom
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
tree
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
up
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
wa'n't
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From this reading "I says to him, jolly as a chipmunk in a beech-nut tree, I says, 'Set up and have a doughnut all fresh laid,' and I'll be bunga-nucked if he wa'n't dead!
Wade
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From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
wentnounUS /went/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
WHITE
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading When Christopher and Wade started up and hurried into the lean-to, the cook of the "Lazy Tom" camp went ahead carrying a lamp to light the place whose rude interior had so suddenly been made mystic by death.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
Woman
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From this reading THE HOSTAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE "Round the bellowin' falls of Abol we lugged him through the brush, And Death had marked his forehead: 'To a Woman.
Yes
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From this reading "'Yes, s'r,' says I to him," he repeated, with queer, bewildered, hysterical sort of chuckle.
