Chapter I

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From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

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From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

consider or hold as true

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

(followed by “to”) in agreement with or accordant with

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

the part of the day between noon and evening

From this reading The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy.

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

in the past

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

at all times; all the time and on every occasion

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

contrived by art rather than nature

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

make a request or demand for something to somebody

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

a quantity of no importance

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

people who are frustrated and perplexed

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

completely unclothed

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

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From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

capable of wounding

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

expletives used informally as intensifiers

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

offering little or no hope

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the two together, not just one

From this reading The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy.

plural of “bough” — any of the larger branches of a tree

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

make calm or still

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

definite but not specified or identified

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

coldness due to a cold environment

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

possessive form of “clerk” — an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the legislature of the United States government

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

be worthy or deserving

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

a branch of knowledge

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

doubt about someone's honesty

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

an udder or breast or teat

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

lacking in liveliness or animation

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

past form of “enter” — to come or go into

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

at any time

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

the organ of sight

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

plural of “fellow” — a boy or man

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

(usually followed by “with” or used as a combining form) generously supplied with

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

plural of “flake” — a crystal of snow

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

having or given a form or shape

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

an encircling or ringlike structure

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

depressingly dark

From this reading The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy.

the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

past form of “greet” — express greetings upon meeting someone

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

not solid; having a space or gap or cavity

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

characteristic of humanity

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

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

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

water frozen in the solid state

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

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

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

to a high degree; extremely; in high concentration or density

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

apprehended with certainty

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

having no leaves

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

having or showing profound knowledge

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

lacking companions or companionship

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

less than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

darkened by clouds

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

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From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

hatred of mankind

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

not in physical motion

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy.

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

in such a manner as could not be otherwise

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

immediately following in time or order

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

many times at short intervals

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

without mercy or pity

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

a small lake

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the act or process of producing something

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

resisting control or authority

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

past form of “refuse” — show unwillingness towards

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

plural of “revers” — a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises)

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

the place where some action occurs

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

shake, as from cold

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

an instance of visual perception

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

being or characteristic of a single thing or person

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

the season of growth

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

plural of “state” — the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

incapable of reproducing

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

not in physical motion

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

abounding in rocks or stones

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

act of expanding by lengthening or widening

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

in a stubborn unregenerate manner

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

meant or adapted for an occasion or use

From this reading The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy.

possessive form of “summer” — the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the environmental condition

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

correct by punishment or discipline

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

a sudden outburst of anger

From this reading The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

inflected form of “take” — carry out

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

not reasonable; not showing good judgment

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the act of using

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the act of traveling by foot

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

migratory

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

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

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

at the time that

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

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

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

during the time that

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

in the company of; together with

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

inside; before a period of time has passed

From this reading Within was the dull, icy calm of stoical misanthropy; distrust of my fellows, which stubbornly refused to ask of heavenly wisdom the solution of the human enigma that had baffled, in disgusting me.

the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

a late time of life

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.

but in spite of that

From this reading Low heavens of clouded steel that yet seemed, now and then, to shiver with the still, biting air, and with each shudder, to let down a few wandering flakes of snow; a bleak landscape of commons, blasted by invisible frost; of sterile hills, that must have been stony and bare in the sunniest springtime,--and for a horizon, a girdle of leafless woods, stretching up motionless boughs against the pitiless sky; in the hollow formed by the amphitheatre of hills, an artificial pond--too intensely tame in form and surroundings to deserve the name of lake, or be mistaken for aught but what it was, viz., a pool dug and filled with a single eye to the production of ice for the next summer’s use,--this was the picture that greeted my outlooking sight.

the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

From this reading _Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ _Stereotyped by_ SMITH & MCDOUGAL, _84 Beckman St._ SALUTATORY.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country.