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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 J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
aboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
all
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
AndconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
architecture
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
asked
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Blackfriars
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Boston
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
bricks
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
Cambridge
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
chance
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
Chelsea
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Company
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
courts
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
day
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
depended
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From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
discover
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From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
duringprepositionUS /ˈdʊrɪŋ/
all through a period, or at some point within it
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Embankment
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
finding
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
glad
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
glance
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Gray's
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
high
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Houghton
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
House
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
hunting
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
hurried
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From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Inn
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
J
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
just
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
knew
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Letauxiliary verbUS /let/
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
lives
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
London
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
looked
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From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
looking
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
luck
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From this reading We were in luck.
merest
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
Mifflin
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
months
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
New
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
notice
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
oughtmodal verbUS /ɔːt/
used with “to” to say what is right or advisable
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
OurdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
out
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
Press
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
rest
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
River
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Riverside
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
saw
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
shouldmodal verbUS /ʃʊd/
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
simple
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
somethingpronounUS /ˈsʌmθɪŋ/
a thing, without saying which
From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
spend
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
take
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Temple
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
time-stained
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From this reading It was all that we could have asked: as simple in architecture, its bricks as time-stained, as the courts of the Temple or Gray's Inn.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
train
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
Underground
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
way
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
weeks
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From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
went
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From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading We were in luck.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading J. and I had been hunting for it during weeks and months, from Chelsea to Blackfriars, when one day, on the way to take a train on the Underground, we saw the notice "To Let" in windows just where they ought to have been,--high above the Embankment and the River,--and we knew at a glance that we should be glad to spend the rest of our lives looking out of them.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
Windows
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
withoutprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading But something depended on the house we looked out from, and, while our train went without us, we hurried to discover it.
York
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From this reading Our House And London out of Our Windows Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Our finding Our House was the merest chance.
