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Lilith: A Romance
Lilith: A Romance

Chapter X · Chapter 10

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Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.
It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.
Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.
I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.
Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.
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Lilith: A Romance

Chapter X · Chapter 10

Chapter 10 of Lilith: A Romance is here in full — 70 sentences across 14 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/14 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.
Line 2
It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.
Line 3
Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.
Line 4
I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.
Line 5
Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

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a

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

an

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

and

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

another

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army

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

as

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

at

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

bank

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

Before

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

behind

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

bigger

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bore

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branch

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

but

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

by

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

came

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channels

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

closer

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

clumps

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

Coming

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

could

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

crossed

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

did

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

difficulty

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

dwarf-trees

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

eager

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

eat

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

eyes

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

feared

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

found

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

from

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

fruit

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

full

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

gather

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

hundreds

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

I

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

in

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

it

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

jump

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

knelt

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

larger

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

length

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

like

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

little

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

look

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

not

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

of

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

one

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

or

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

outlying

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

picket

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

plant

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

question

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

reached

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

recognise

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

river-bed

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

rocks

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

saw

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

second

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

seemed

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

shrub

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

shrubs

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

small

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

so

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

somewhat

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

sort

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

still

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

such

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

take

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

that

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

the

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

them

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

then

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

they

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

this

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From this reading Before I reached the bank of this second branch of the river-bed, I found the channels so full of them that it was with difficulty I crossed such as I could not jump.

thought

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

time

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

to

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

trusted

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

upon

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

was

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

watched

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

were

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From this reading I came to another plant somewhat bigger, then to another larger still, and at length to clumps of a like sort; by which time I saw that they were not shrubs but dwarf-trees.

what

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From this reading Coming, in one of the channels, upon what seemed a little shrub, the outlying picket, I trusted, of an army behind it, I knelt to look at it closer.

whether

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

which

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From this reading It bore a small fruit, which, as I did not recognise it, I feared to gather and eat.

with

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

would

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From this reading Little I thought that I was watched from behind the rocks by hundreds of eyes eager with the question whether I would or would not take it.

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