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AdeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
accurately
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
acrossprepositionUS /əˈkrɔːs/
from one side of something to the other
From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
also
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
amber
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
any
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
appropriately
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
aristocracy
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
background
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
Battersea
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
beauty
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
blue
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
British
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
business
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
Camberwell
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
caricatured
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
cheap
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
Chinese
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
clear
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
clothes
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
commerce
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
cost
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
crockery
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
delicate
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
drenched
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From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
drink
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
enough
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
European
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
fortune
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
furnisher's
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
GARDEN
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From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
gardens
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
great
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
green
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
half
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
home
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
household
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
INprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
jade
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
Kowloon
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From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
lilies
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
London
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
look
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
LOTUS
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From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
lute
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From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
Marylebone
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
mauve
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
minstrel
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
moment
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
more
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
moved
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From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
music
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From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
new
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
outer
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
pale
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
paused
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
pawnbrokers
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
pawnshops
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
pink
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
plates
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
portrayed
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
repeatedly
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
retuned
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From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
rich
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
sale
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
sampsan
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
Shoreditch
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
singer
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From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
singing
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From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
somewhat
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
streets
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
strolling
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From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
sunlight
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From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
town
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
typical
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
uniform
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
village
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
wear
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
went
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From this reading The strolling singer retuned his lute and moved across the garden, singing as he went.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
white
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
willmodal verbUS /wɪl/
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
willow-tree-pattern
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From this reading It was the typical garden of a rich Chinese home--so repeatedly caricatured on the “willow-tree-pattern” crockery of cheap European commerce--caricatured but also somewhat accurately portrayed.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading IN THE LOTUS GARDEN Kowloon was drenched with sunlight, and the lotus garden was drenched with music.
women
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From this reading But the gardens on the plates for sale in half the pawnshops in outer London (the aristocracy of the pawnbrokers will not look at them any more), in every household furnisher’s in Marylebone and Camberwell, in Battersea and Shoreditch, and on the business streets of every British town and village, are of one uniform Chinese blue--the blue the sampsan women wear when their clothes are new--and background of white, Chinese white, appropriately enough.
yellow
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From this reading A minstrel paused a moment to drink in the beauty of the great lilies, white, yellow, pink, amber and mauve, one that had cost a fortune, clear pale blue, one that had cost more, a delicate jade green.
