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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
admirably
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
all
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
anybodypronounUS /ˈenibədi/
any person at all
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
B
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
Bank
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
bound
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
C
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
cards
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
case
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
contradiction
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
country
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
coursenounUS /course/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
day
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
development
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
Elgin
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
excitement
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
expedients
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
explode
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
ExpressverbUS /ɪkˈspres/
to show or communicate a feeling or idea
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
Federal
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
following
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
full
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
futile
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
gave
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
guffaw
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
Halifax
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
handsplural nounUS /hændz/
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
headlines
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
held
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
Horace
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
hundred
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
impede
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
InprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
invariably
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
knownounUS /know/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
known
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
learn
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
local
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
manufacturing
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
Mercury
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
miles
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
Montreal
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
most
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
Mr
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
mustmodal verbUS /mʌst/
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
nearer
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
new
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
North
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
Ontario
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
opportunity
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
papers
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
played
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
Pole
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
proportion
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
Rawlins
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
reducing
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
reporters
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
said
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
scorenounUS /score/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
sent
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
sorts
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
southern
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
special
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
stretches
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
there
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
topic
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
Toronto
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From this reading In Montreal the papers gave it headlines; from Toronto they sent special reporters.
town
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From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
transmission
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
value
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
Vancouver
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
warmed
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From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading In Halifax they did know it, and in Vancouver, B.C., while every hundred miles nearer it warmed as a topic in proportion.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
wide
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From this reading In the wide stretches of a new country there is nothing to bound a local excitement, or to impede its transmission at full value.
Williams
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From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Of course, it was most of all the opportunity of Mr Horace Williams, of the Elgin Express, and of Rawlins, who held all the cards in their hands, and played them, it must be said, admirably, reducing the Mercury to all sorts of futile expedients to score, which the Express would invariably explode with a guffaw of contradiction the following day.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Elgin was a manufacturing town in southern Ontario, but they would have known every development of the Federal Bank case at the North Pole if there had been anybody there to learn.
