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1851
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
AdeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
ago
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
ANDconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
AsconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
ATprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
AUSTRALIAN
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
banks
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
BATMAN
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
BAY
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
BECAME
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
believe
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
BOTANICAL
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
BOURKE
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
BUSH-RANGERS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
century
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
chanted
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
CHICAGO
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
city
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
clearing
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
COAST
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
COLLINS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
colony
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
COMPARED
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
CURIOUS
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
DESCRIPTION
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
DINING
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
DOLLARS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
FAWKNER
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
FENCES
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
FIFTY
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
forest
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
FOUNDING
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
FRANCISCO
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
Frank
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
Fred
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
GARDENS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
GEELONG
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
GENERAL
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
GOLD
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
GROWTH
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
half
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
HARBOR
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
hardly
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heard
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
HOBSON'S
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
hotel
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HOW
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
HUNDRED
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
impatient
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
INprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Yet so it was.
KILDA
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
little
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loudly
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
MELBOURNE
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
METROPOLIS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
MILLION
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
more
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much
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
NEWSPAPERS
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
OFprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
ONprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
ONEpronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
OTHER
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
PERFORMANCES
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
PHILLIP
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
PLUNDERING
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
PORT
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
praises
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
QUEENSCLIFF
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
railway-station
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
REMINISCENCES
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
RESIDENCE
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
resident
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
RIVER
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
ROCKS
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
rode
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RUSH
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
SAN
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
SANDRIDGE
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
SCENES
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
see
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
SHARK
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From this reading KILDA.--SHARK FENCES.--QUEENSCLIFF.--CURIOUS ROCKS ON THE COAST.--GEELONG.--MELBOURNE NEWSPAPERS.
SHIP
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
SIGHTS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
ST
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
STREET
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
SUBURBAN
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
SUBURBS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
THEIRdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
there
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From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
THOROUGHFARES
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
Victoria
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From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading As they rode from the railway-station to their hotel they could hardly believe that they were in a city where half a century ago there was little more than a clearing in the forest on the banks of the Yarra.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading Frank and Fred were impatient to see Melbourne, the city of which they had heard so much, and whose praises are loudly chanted by every resident of the colony of Victoria.
WILLIAMSTOWN
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
YARRA
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
YEARS
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From this reading THE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.--BATMAN AND FAWKNER.--GROWTH OF MELBOURNE, CHICAGO, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMPARED.--SIGHTS AND SCENES IN THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS.--COLLINS STREET, BOURKE STREET, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES.--A GENERAL DESCRIPTION.--THE YARRA RIVER.--BOTANICAL GARDENS.--DINING AT A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.--THE SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE.--HOW ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BECAME ONE MILLION IN FIFTY YEARS.--SANDRIDGE (PORT MELBOURNE).--SCENES IN THE HARBOR.--REMINISCENCES OF THE GOLD RUSH OF 1851.--BUSH-RANGERS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES.--PLUNDERING A SHIP IN PORT.--HOBSON'S BAY AND PORT PHILLIP BAY.--WILLIAMSTOWN AND ST.
YetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet so it was.
