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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 DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
all
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
artistic
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arts
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
AsconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
avenues
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
begannounUS /began/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
bridges
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
canvases
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
carriages
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
category
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
committee
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
crowd
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From this reading In the square salon a great crowd surged and rustled.
dare
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
day
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
de
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
decorative
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
disdaining
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
displayed
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
doors
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
DOUBLE
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
drive
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
early
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
EvennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
exhibition
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
eyes
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
fashionable
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
finenounUS /fine/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
four
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
gallery
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the square salon a great crowd surged and rustled.
hall
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
hang
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
hastened
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
hundred
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
invites
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
JEALOUSY
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
l'Industrie
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
making
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
mounting
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
nine
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
o'clock
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
OnepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
painters
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
Palais
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
Paris
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
picture
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
pictures
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
pilgrimage
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
present
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
pressed
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
pretended
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
procession
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
proportions
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
raised
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
refuse
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
rustled
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From this reading In the square salon a great crowd surged and rustled.
said
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From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
salon
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From this reading In the square salon a great crowd surged and rustled.
sculpture
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sent
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
special
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
square
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From this reading In the square salon a great crowd surged and rustled.
staircase
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
steps
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
streets
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
surged
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From this reading In the square salon a great crowd surged and rustled.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
thousand
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
three
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
towardprepositionUS /təˈwɔːrd/
in the direction of
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
unusual
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
upstairs
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
varnishing
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
visitors
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From this reading A long procession of visitors pressed through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture, hastened upstairs to the picture gallery.
walls
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
way
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From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading As early as nine o'clock in the morning they began to drive, by way of all streets, avenues, and bridges, toward that hall of the fine arts where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to be present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred pictures.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
works
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From this reading Even while mounting the steps they raised their eyes to the canvases displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases of unusual proportions or works that the committee dare not refuse.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading A DOUBLE JEALOUSY One would have said that all the carriages in Paris were making a pilgrimage to the Palais de l'Industrie that day.
