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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 With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
afternoonnounUS /ˈafternoon/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
all
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
alonenounUS /alone/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
American
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
any
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
ARTHUR
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
August
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Author
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
Authors
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Bag
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
Bandbox
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Bell
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
Benjamin
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
biscuit
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Black
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
Bowl
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
Brass
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
Bronze
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
ByprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
cast
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From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
cast-iron
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
cheese
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
circumstances
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
Club
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Cynthia-of-the-Minute
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
death-in-life
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
didn't
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
dining-room
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
doauxiliary verbUS /duː/
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
ease
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
ennui
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
etc
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
exotic
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
felt
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
FlamenounUS /fleɪm/
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
FortunenounUS /ˈfortune/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
Four
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
gentlemannounUS /ˈgentleman/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
go
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
half-past
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
heart
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
home
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
Hunter
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
ill
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
Illustrations
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Inconceivable
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
KELLER
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Land
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
lank
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From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
late
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
less
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
London
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
lonely
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
looknounUS /look/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
love
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
man
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
Man's
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
month
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
moodily
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
morsel
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Mr
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
munching
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
mustmodal verbUS /mʌst/
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
New
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
NodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
O'Rourke
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
only
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From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
other
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
Pool
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
precisely
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
Private
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
rationaladjectiveUS /ˈræʃ.ən.əl/
Based on or in accordance with reason or logic rather than turbulent emotions.
From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
samenounUS /same/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
sat
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
saturnine
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From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
savednounUS /saved/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
seem
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
segment
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
sentiment
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
sheer
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
shouldmodal verbUS /ʃʊd/
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
slightly
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From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
Staff
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
sultry
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
sum
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
sunny
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
surprisingly
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From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
table
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
Terence
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
thinadjectiveUS /θɪn/
Having little thickness or extent.
From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/
in spite of the fact that
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
two
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
unhappy
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From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
up
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
wanted
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From this reading He was alone and he was lonely; he was an American and a man of sentiment (though he didn't look _that_) and he wanted to go home; to sum up, he found himself in love and in London at one and the same time, and felt precisely as ill at ease in the one as in the other of these, to him, exotic circumstances.
War
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From this reading The Bandbox Cynthia-of-the-Minute No Man's Land The Fortune Hunter The Pool of Flame The Bronze Bell The Black Bag The Brass Bowl The Private War Terence O'Rourke Author of "The Brass Bowl," "The Bronze Bell," "Cynthia-of-the-Minute," etc.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading A long, lank gentleman, surprisingly thin, of a slightly saturnine cast: he was not only unhappy, he looked it.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
WithprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
wondering
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From this reading With Four Illustrations By ARTHUR I. KELLER At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors' Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment of cast-iron biscuit and wondering what he must do to be saved from the death-in-life of sheer ennui.
yearn
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
York
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From this reading Inconceivable as it may seem that any rational man should yearn for New York in August, that and nothing less was what Staff wanted with all his heart.
