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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 She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
almost
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
Areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
aware
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
bed
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
besideprepositionUS /bɪˈsaɪd/
next to; at the side of
From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
bier
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From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
breathed
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
cast
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
close
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
confused
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From this reading In her confused fancy, the voice seemed to her like Harold's.
consciousness
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
curtains
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
dear
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
died
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
faint
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
fancy
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From this reading In her confused fancy, the voice seemed to her like Harold's.
floor
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
Harold's
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From this reading In her confused fancy, the voice seemed to her like Harold's.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
heavily
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
herselfpronounUS /hərˈself/
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
hidden
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
imagined
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From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
kind
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
lay
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
like
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From this reading In her confused fancy, the voice seemed to her like Harold's.
looknounUS /look/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
lying
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
mother
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
night-lamp
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
Olive
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
own
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
perhaps
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From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
returnednounUS /ˈreturned/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
said
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
samenounUS /same/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In her confused fancy, the voice seemed to her like Harold's.
shadows
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
sigh
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
sitting
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From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
sleeping
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
softly
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
some
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
sorrowfully
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From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
tenderness
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From this reading She imagined that she was dead, and that he was sitting beside her bier--sorrowfully--perhaps even in tenderness, as he might look on her _then_.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
then
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
thoughtnounUS /thought/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
too
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
voice
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From this reading In her confused fancy, the voice seemed to her like Harold's.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
watcher
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From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
whereon
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From this reading When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
white
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From this reading Olive almost thought that she herself had died too, so still lay the shadows of the white curtains, cast by the one faint night-lamp that was hidden on the floor.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
youpronounUS /juː/
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, “Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?”
