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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
aboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
accomplish
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
accustomed
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
all
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
always
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
ask
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
balcony
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
bed
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
begannounUS /began/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
believenounUS /ˈbelieve/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
birth
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
bread
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
canmodal verbUS /kæn/
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
close
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From this reading "And yet such people live quite close to us.
command
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
coursenounUS /course/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
deep
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
differentnounUS /ˈdifferent/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
dinner
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
doauxiliary verbUS /duː/
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
eachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
elegant
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
enough
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
especially
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
evening
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
fireside
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
flutes
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
fly
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
Footnote
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From this reading [Footnote 24: Theodore.]
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
GEINA
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
glasses
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
go
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
happy
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
heads
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
hearnounUS /hear/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
herenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
inhabitants
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
Juon
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
knownounUS /know/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
ladyship
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
live
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From this reading "And yet such people live quite close to us.
luxury
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
MAID-MARKET
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
meals
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
melancholy
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
milch-goats
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
nayexclamationUS /neɪ/
an old word for “no”
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
neednounUS /need/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
obediently
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
Oceania
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
often
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
particular
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
pastoral
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
people
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
place
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
porcelain
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
quitenounUS /quite/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "And yet such people live quite close to us.
ready
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
recognize
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
returning
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
roof
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
Ruban
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
savage
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
saw
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
see
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
separate
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
servant
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
service
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
several
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
sitting
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
sleep
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
songs
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
spare
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
story
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
strong
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading "And yet such people live quite close to us.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
Theodore
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From this reading [Footnote 24: Theodore.]
there
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
thinknounUS /think/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
Todor
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "And yet such people live quite close to us.
valleys
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From this reading Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy songs of their pastoral flutes, especially of an evening, when the milch-goats are returning from the deep valleys.
very
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From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
want
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
WepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We need not think of the savage inhabitants of Oceania,--we can see enough of them and to spare in this very place.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
world
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From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
Wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
youpronounUS /juː/
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
yourdeterminerUS /jɔːr/
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading THE GEINA MAID-MARKET "Would your ladyship believe,"--so Todor[24] Ruban began his story of Juon the strong,--"sitting here as you do by the fireside, accustomed from your birth to every elegant luxury, with a particular servant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals--would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are people in this world who know not what it is to have a roof above their heads when they go to sleep, who would not recognize a bed or a dinner service if they saw them, nay, who often are in want of bread--and yet, for all that, are happy?
