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Saxe Holm's Stories: First Series
Saxe Holm's Stories: First Series

Chapter I

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Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
Part I.
When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
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Saxe Holm's Stories: First Series

Chapter I

Reading 1/87 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
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The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
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Part I.
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When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

Learner Dictionary

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One pronoun US /wʌn/

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading “The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.”

Part noun US /part/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “Part I.”

Whose determiner US /huːz/

belonging to which person

From this reading “Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?”

All words in this reading · 37

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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 When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

boy

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Content

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Dancers

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Darachsa

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Dowry

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Draxy

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Elder's

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Esther

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father

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girl

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From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

hepronounUS /hiː/

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

HerdeterminerUS /hɜːr/

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.

heroine

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From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

How

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Husband

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IpronounUS /aɪ/

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Part I.

inprepositionUS /ɪn/

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

From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

Kept

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Love-Letters

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Miller's

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named

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novel

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From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

OnepronounUS /wʌn/

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

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One-Legged

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PartnounUS /part/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Part I.

Polish

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read

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From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

ShepronounUS /ʃiː/

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?

ThedeterminerUS /ðə/

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

From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?

Wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?

WhenconjunctionUS /wen/

at the time that

From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.

WhosedeterminerUS /huːz/

belonging to which person

From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?

Wife

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From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?

Woman

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Wynn's

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From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.