Chapter XXVI

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

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

at or in the front

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a native or inhabitant of the United States

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

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

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

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

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

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

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

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

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

in or to or toward a former location

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

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From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

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From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

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From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

past form of “bunch” — form into a bunch

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading Patricia called to the driver, and he pulled up.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

plural of “caterpillar” — a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

a soft tufted cord used in embroidery

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

lacking definite form or limits

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

seemingly without interruption

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

having hills and crags

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

the act of leaving secretly or without explanation

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

an athletic competition that involves diving into water

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

plural of “dream” — a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

the operator of a motor vehicle

From this reading Patricia called to the driver, and he pulled up.

a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

Filled with or placed under the influence of magical power or charm.

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

something that provides access (to get in or get out)

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

past form of “erect” — construct, build, or erect

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

intense or sharp

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

ludicrously odd

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

mat together and make felt-like

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

throw with force or recklessness

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

plural of “foreigner” — a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

plural of “forest” — the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

inflected form of “forget” — dismiss from the mind; stop remembering

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (“further” is used more often than “farther” in this abstract sense)

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

brought together in one place

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

an encircling or ringlike structure

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

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From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Patricia called to the driver, and he pulled up.

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

the locus of feelings and intuitions

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

relating to or associated with an empire

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

done or made using whatever is available

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

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

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

enclosed in the same envelope or package

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

past form of “live” — be an inhabitant of or reside in

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

inflected form of “mar” — make imperfect

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

the common people generally

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

-ing form of “mirror” — reflect as if in a mirror

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

possessive form of “mother” — a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

to a great degree or extent

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

articles of clothing worn about the neck

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

immediately following in time or order

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

a color that is lighter and greener than olive

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

denoting or characteristic of countries of the Far East

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

above and across; more than

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

the time that has elapsed

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

plural of “pine” — a coniferous tree

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

plural of “pond” — a small lake

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

past form of “pull” — cause to move by pulling

From this reading Patricia called to the driver, and he pulled up.

strange in an interesting or pleasing way

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

having red stripes

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

located far away spatially

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

having or caused by an irregular surface

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

someone who imports or exports without paying duties

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

in constant agitation

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

an elevated geological formation

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

with low volume

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

inflected form of “strap” — tie with a strap

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

Having little thickness or extent.

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

(of bolts or screws) having screw threads

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

in contact with each other or in proximity

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

plural of “touch” — the event of something coming in contact with the body

From this reading On this oriental background continually appeared quaint touches of the foreign and bizarre: a huge American straw hat, much befrilled and befeathered, on the head of a baby strapped to its mother's back, or a hideous boa of chenille like bunched caterpillars marring the delicate native neckwear of an exquisite _kimono_.

plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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

From this reading Patricia called to the driver, and he pulled up.

not clearly expressed or understood

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

plural of “wall” — an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

at the time that

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

in or at the place that

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.

belonging to which person

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

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From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

in the company of; together with

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

From this reading WHEN A WOMAN DREAMS Riding with Patricia in the big victoria next day, its red-striped runner diving ahead, Barbara forgot her vague wonder at Haru's disappearance, as she felt the enchanted mystery of Tokyo creep further into her heart.

everything that exists anywhere

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole

From this reading They threaded the softly dreaming silence of the willow-bordered moat that clasps the Imperial grounds with a girdle of cloudy emerald, where the "Dragon Pines" of the great _Shogun Iyemits_ fling their craggy masses of olive-green down over the leaning walls to kiss the mirroring water--past many-roofed, Tartar-like watch-towers, cream-white on the blue, and through little parks with forests of thin straight-boled trees and placid lotos ponds seething with the dagger-blue flashings of dragon-flies, all woven together into a tapestry, lovely, remote, fantastic--like the projection of some dream-legend whose people lived a fairy story in a picture-book world.

a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

From this reading On the slope of a hill they came on a motley crowd, which included a sprinkling of foreigners, gathered before the entrance of a temple yard, where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected.