Chapter I · Chapter 1

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

from one side of something to the other

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

past form of “adjudge” — declare to be

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence or deeply revered.

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “aspect” — a distinct feature or element in a problem

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “author” — writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

(Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

(Old Testament) Babylonian general and son of Nebuchadnezzar II; according to the Old Testament he was warned of his doom by divine handwriting on the wall that was interpreted by Daniel (6th century BC)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a mountain or tall hill

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

the supreme effort one can make

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

army unit smaller than a division

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

possessive form of “brown” — an orange of low brightness and saturation

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

possessive form of “bruce” — Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

United States mythologist (1904-1987)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

an occurrence of something

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

plural of “castle” — a large and stately mansion

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a period of 100 years

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a changeable or inconstant person

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the shore of a sea or ocean

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

someone who is victorious by force of arms

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

without stop or interruption

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

someone who communicates by means of letters

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “county” — (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

plural of “country” — a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a courteous or respectful or considerate act

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1922)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

the time during which someone's life continues

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

possessive form of “defoe” — English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a state in which all hope is lost or absent

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a division of the United Kingdom

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

the act of escaping physically

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a native or inhabitant of Europe

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

a formation of aircraft in flight

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a person who is not a serf or a slave

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

any creature of exceptional size

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the object of any prolonged endeavor

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a sacred place of pilgrimage

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

kindness in welcoming guests or strangers

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English poet (born in 1930)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a midwestern state in north-central United States

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading _Prose._ PREFACE INTRODUCTION INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a single distinct event

From this reading _Prose._ PREFACE INTRODUCTION INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR.

the act of beginning something new

From this reading _Prose._ PREFACE INTRODUCTION INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR.

the creation of something in the mind

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a polite name for any woman

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

young sheep

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

the land on which real estate is located

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions on one's way of life.

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a characteristic state or mode of living

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of comparatively little physical weight or density

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “life” — a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

something that is lost

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

possessive form of “man” — an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

plural of “mariner” — a man who serves as a sailor

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

plural of “martyr” — one who suffers for the sake of principle

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

the force of workers available

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially with foreign countries.

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a disorderly crowd of people

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

(Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus; Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a form of address for a man

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

kill intentionally and with premeditation

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a village in western Northamptonshire

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the condition of being essential or indispensable

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

immediately following in time or order

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

plural of “note” — a brief written record

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile; much of Nubia is now under Lake Nasser

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _Prose._ PREFACE INTRODUCTION INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English poet (1824-1897)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “passage” — the act of passing from one state or place to the next

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plural of “passion” — a strong feeling or emotion

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a specialist in philosophy

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

plural of “pilgrim” — someone who journeys in foreign lands

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “pleasure” — a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

literature in metrical form

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the head of the Roman Catholic Church

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

of momentous or ominous significance

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

From this reading _Prose._ PREFACE INTRODUCTION INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR.

a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

ordinary writing as distinguished from verse

From this reading _Prose._ PREFACE INTRODUCTION INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR.

one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament; said to have been written by David

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

to give an account or representation of in words

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

not move; be in a resting position

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

increase the number of rotations per minute

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

inflected form of “rob” — take something away by force or without the consent of the owner

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

United States basketball guard (born in 1938)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

British art critic (1819-1900)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

an educational institution

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “servant” — a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a wrecked ship (or a part of one)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

term of address for a man

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a short musical composition with words

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

understood in a certain way; made sense of

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United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading _Prose._ PREFACE INTRODUCTION INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

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United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

in every part of a place, or for the whole of a period

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a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a more or less definite period of time now or previously present

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

male cat

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

plural of “travel” — the act of going from one place to another

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

impressive by reason of age

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a community of people smaller than a town

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

Moral excellence and goodness of character; the highest human attainment in Stoic philosophy.

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a vivid mental image

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

go to see a place, as for entertainment

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

German conductor (1876-1962)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

possessive form of “warner” — United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958)

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.

a message informing of danger

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

someone engaged in or experienced in warfare

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

English potter (1730-1795)

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

beat with force

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

a Caucasian

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

hope for; have a wish

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

everything that exists anywhere

From this reading ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_ BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto] WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto] CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_ THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_ LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_ MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_ WHANG THE MILLER [ditto] AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_ NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto] LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_ GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_ A WHALE HUNT _Scott_ A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_ THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_ THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_ MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_ ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_ COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_ COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto] ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_ ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_ THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_ THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_ THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_ THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_ THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_ THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_ A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_ A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto] A THUNDERSTORM [ditto] CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_ MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_ THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto] THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto] JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_ THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_ NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_ THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_ THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_ THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_ BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_ CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_ ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_ A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_ AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_ THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_ VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_ THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_ _Poetry_.

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From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person

From this reading THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_ MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A BALLAD _Goldsmith_ MARTYRS _Cowper_ A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_ THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_ REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_ THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_ BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_ LOCHINVAR _Scott_ THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_ A WISH _Pope_ A SEA SONG _Cunningham_ ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_ RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_ WATERLOO _Byron_ IVRY _Macaulay_ ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_ THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_ A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_ MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_ VIRTUE _George Herbert_ DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_ THE PASSIONS _Collins_ THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_ YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_ A SHIPWRECK _Byron_ THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_ LIBERTY _Cowper_ THE TROSACHS _Scott_ LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_ REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_ THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_ THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_ MAZEPPA _Byron_ HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_ L'ALLEGRO _Milton_ THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_ IL PENSEROSO _Milton_ COURTESY _Spenser_ NOTES INTRODUCTION.

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Throughout this book, and the next, you will find passages taken from the writings of the best English authors.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._ THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_ BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_ DR.