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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 It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
action
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From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
all
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From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
anywhere
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
appointed
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
arrested
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From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
bayou
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
bayou's
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
breezes
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
broke
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
broughtnounUS /ˈbrought/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
BUTconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
calm
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From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
came
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
cared
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
cash
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
chill
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
close
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
completenounUS /complete/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
CONVERSATION
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
cottonwood
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
country
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
covenant
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
cypress
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
deck
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
devastating
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
duties
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
edge
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
eleven
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
ELSE
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
fallen
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
father
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
feelingnounUS /ˈfeeling/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
fittedadjectiveUS /ˈfɪtɪd/
prepared and equipped for a particular purpose
From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
forest
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
forgottenadjectiveUS /fərˈɡɑːt.n̩/
Not remembered; lapsed from memory.
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
forwardnounUS /forward/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
gray
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
grays
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
greens
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
HAVEauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
held
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
home
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
hour
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
hung
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
hush
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From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
INprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
interesting
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
landscape
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
lay
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
LITTLEnounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
looking
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
lower
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
lumbermen
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
many
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
men
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
mist
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
moss
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
mustmodal verbUS /mʌst/
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
myselfpronounUS /ˌmaɪˈself/
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
northern
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
now
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
oaks
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
once
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
out
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
pale
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
partnounUS /part/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
partynounUS /party/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
pictures
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
POLITE
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
quitenounUS /quite/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
released
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
remembered
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
retirement
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
ridge
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
ripple
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
river
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
river's
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
Sabbath
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From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
saveprepositionUS /seɪv/
except for; apart from
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
scarceadjectiveUS /skɛrs/
hard to find or in short supply
From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
second
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading It was the morning of a Sabbath, and a Sabbath calm lay all about us--silence, and hush, and arrested action.
sitting
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
soft
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
soon
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
southern
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
Spanish
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
speak
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From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
spot
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
sun
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
surenounUS /sure/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
tender
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
tones
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
tree
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From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
troubling
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
unceasing
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From this reading The bayou itself, once the river, but now released from all the river's troubling duties, held its unceasing calm, fitted the complete retirement of the spot, and scarce a ripple broke it anywhere.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
veiled
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
warm
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From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
WHICHpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading The forest about us not yet fallen before the devastating northern lumbermen--men such as my father had been, who cared nothing for a tree or a country save as it might come to cash--was in part cypress, in part cottonwood, but on the ridge were many oaks, and over all hung the soft gray Spanish moss.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading IN WHICH I HAVE POLITE CONVERSATION, BUT LITTLE ELSE I had myself quite forgotten my appointed hour of eleven, feeling so sure that it would not be remembered, as of covenant, by the party of the second part, so to speak, and was sitting on the forward deck looking out over the interesting pictures of the landscape that lay about us.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading The sun itself, warm at a time when soon the breezes must have been chill at my northern home, was veiled in a soft and tender mist, which brought into yet lower tones the pale greens and grays of the southern forest which came close to the bayou's edge.
