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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 THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
absence
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
ACTION
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
ADIEU
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
again
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
air
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
ANDconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
ARCTIC
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
away
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
back
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
blaze
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
bloom
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
BREAKING
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
brightening
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
brings
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
change
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
chapters
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
cheek
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
COAST
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
come
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
covered
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
CRITICAL
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
darkness
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
day
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
dead
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
death
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
death-like
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
desert
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
DISSOLVING
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
earth
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
EIDER-DUCKS
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
endless
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
ESQUIMAUX
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
everywhere
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
face
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
finding
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
FLORA
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
flowers
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
FOULKE
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
FOURTH
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
GEOLOGICAL
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
gloom
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
GREAT
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
green
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
GULLS
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
HAIL
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
hardly
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
heart
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
HUNT
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
ICE
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
ICEBERGS
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
indeed
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
INTEREST
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
ISLAND
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
joyous
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
LAND-ICE
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
landscape
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
LEAVE
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
life
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
light
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
LITTLETON
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
living
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
made
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
marvelous
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
mindnounUS /maɪnd/
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
Nature
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
new
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
night
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
NUMBERS
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
object
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
observed
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
OFprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
pallid
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
passed
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
perhaps
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
places
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
pleasure
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
PORT
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
prepared
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
pulseless
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
quiet
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
RAIN
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
reader
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From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
Recalling
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
recount
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
reigned
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
relieve
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
returnednounUS /ˈreturned/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
said
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
sameadjectiveUS /seɪm/
Identical; not different.
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
SCHOONERnounUS /ˈskuːnər/
a sailing ship with two or more masts
From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
sea
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
see
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
shadownounUS /ˈʃæd.oʊ/
A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
ShepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
Sidenote
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From this reading [Sidenote: THE ARCTIC SUMMER.]
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
SITUATION
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
sleepeth
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
SNOW
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
solitude
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
some
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
sparkling
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
speaks
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
STORM
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
SUMMER
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
sun
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
surprise
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
TAKING
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
teeming
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
TERRACES
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
terrors
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
there
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
thing
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From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
throb
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
TOparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
UP
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
UPHEAVAL
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
VISIT
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
voice
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
WALRUS
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From this reading THE ARCTIC SUMMER.--THE FLORA.--THE ICE DISSOLVING.--A SUMMER STORM OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW.--THE TERRACES.--ICE ACTION.--UPHEAVAL OF THE COAST.--GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE.--A WALRUS HUNT.--THE "FOURTH."--VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND.--GREAT NUMBERS OF EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS.--THE ICE BREAKING UP.--CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER.--TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX.--ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
willmodal verbUS /wɪl/
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading The reader will have observed the marvelous change that had come over the face of Nature since the shadow of the night had passed away.
winds
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
winter
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From this reading The change of the Arctic winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change from death to life; and the voice which speaks to the sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is that same voice which said "She is not dead, but sleepeth,"-- and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and the bloom returned to the pallid cheek.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
withoutprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading Recalling those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of the Arctic night,--the death-like quiet which reigned in the endless darkness,--the absence of every living thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors,--he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, without surprise, the same landscape covered with an endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teeming with life, the desert places sparkling with green, and brightening with flowers,--the mind finding everywhere some new object of pleasure, where before there was but gloom.
