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all
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
AndconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
apparent
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From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
beauty
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From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
bee-hunter
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From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
Behold
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
boar
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From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
boughs
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From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
branches
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
change
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From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
choicest
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From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
comes
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From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
dew
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From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
drinking
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From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
EvennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
evernounUS /ever/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
fruitful
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
gradually
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From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
greenest
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From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
grew
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From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
heathen
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
hill
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From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
hills
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
joined
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From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
Lord
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
luxurious
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
making
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From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
MILMAN
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now
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From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
O
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
O'er
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
OnprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.
Palestine
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
partynounUS /party/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
Peter
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From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading The change in Peter had been gradually making itself apparent, ever since he joined the party of the bee-hunter.
spread
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
tendrils
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
ThatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
thydeterminerUS /ðaɪ/
an old word for “your”, speaking to one person
From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
tread
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
vine
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From this reading Behold, O Lord! the heathen tread The branches of thy fruitful vine, That its luxurious tendrils spread O'er all the hills of Palestine.
wastenounUS /weɪst/
an empty, uncultivated area of land
From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
wild
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From this reading And now the wild boar comes to waste Even us, the greenest boughs and last.
Zion's
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From this reading That, drinking of its choicest dew, On Zion's hill in beauty grew.