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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 Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
all
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
Ballad
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From this reading --The Ballad of Tumbledick.
beams
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
besideprepositionUS /bɪˈsaɪd/
next to; at the side of
From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
black
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
blow
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
brightly
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
broughtnounUS /ˈbrought/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
calm
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
camp
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
cold
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
cower
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
crazy
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
danced
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
Days
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
dervishes
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
DEVIL
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
diamond's
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
doauxiliary verbUS /duː/
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
down
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
dreamless
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
dropped
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
dull
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
Dwight
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
earnest
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
EnchantedadjectiveUS /ɪnˈtʃæn.tɪd/
Filled with or placed under the influence of magical power or charm.
From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
evenings
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
ExceptprepositionUS /ɪkˈsept/
apart from; not including
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
facets
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
faithfulnounUS /ˈfaithful/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
goes
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
growth
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
hard
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
hearts
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
HEMPEN
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
honestadjectiveUS /ˈɑnɪst/
truthful and trustworthy
From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
hope
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
labor
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
lantern
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
letters
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
lighted
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
like
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
load
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
men
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
mountain-tops
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
nightsnounUS /naɪts/
Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
o
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
OFprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
office
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
parts
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
plummets
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
quivering
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
radiance
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
rigadoons
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
shone
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
sleep
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
snow
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
snowflakes
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
snub-line
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
spun
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
starts
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
straight
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
STRANDS
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
sunshine
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
taper
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
tempest
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
There's
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
thundering
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
toil
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
Tumbledick
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From this reading --The Ballad of Tumbledick.
valleys
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
Wade
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
WhileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
whirlwinds
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
winter
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From this reading Days of winter snow and blow; days of sunshine, hard and cold as the radiance from a diamond's facets; days of calm and days of tempest; days when the snowflakes dropped as straight as plummets, and days when the whirlwinds danced in crazy rigadoons down the valleys or spun like dervishes on the mountain-tops!
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
won
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From this reading And all were days of honest, faithful toil in the black growth of Enchanted, and the days brought the dreamless sleep o' nights that labor won.
wreck
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From this reading THE DEVIL OF THE HEMPEN STRANDS "When the snub-line parts and the great load starts There's nothing that men may do, Except to cower with quivering hearts While the wreck goes thundering through."
wrote
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From this reading In those long evenings hope lighted a taper that shone brightly beside the lantern of the office camp in whose dull beams Dwight Wade wrote long and earnest letters.
