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The Puritans

Chapter I

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
_All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.
3.
"Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."
_Persian Religious Hymn.
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The Puritans

Chapter I

Reading 1/80 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Line 2
_All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.
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3.
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"Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."
Line 5
_Persian Religious Hymn.

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

After preposition US /ˈæftər/

later than; following

From this reading “"Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."”

Good noun US /good/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”

Life noun US /life/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”

Till preposition US /tɪl/

up to a particular time

From this reading “"Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."”

Well noun US /well/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “_All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.”

Yarn noun US /jɑrn/

an informal story or conversation

From this reading “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”

All words in this reading · 41

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3

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From this reading 3.

adeterminerUS /ə/

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

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Abandoning

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/

later than; following

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

All's

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From this reading _All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

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

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

came

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

ecstasy

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

Ends

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From this reading _All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.

forsook

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

goodnounUS /good/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

heart

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/

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

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

Hymn

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From this reading _Persian Religious Hymn.

IpronounUS /aɪ/

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

ill

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From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

inprepositionUS /ɪn/

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

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

iv

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From this reading _All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.

lifenounUS /life/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

mepronounUS /miː/

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

mingled

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From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

mydeterminerUS /maɪ/

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Persian

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From this reading _Persian Religious Hymn.

place

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

ran

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

rapt

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

reason

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

religion

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From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

Religious

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From this reading _Persian Religious Hymn.

ThatconjunctionUS /ðæt/

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading _All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.

ThedeterminerUS /ðə/

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

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

tillprepositionUS /tɪl/

up to a particular time

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

toparticleUS /tuː/

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

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

together

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From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

web

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From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Well

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From this reading _All's Well That Ends Well_, iv.

whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/

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

From this reading "Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."

yarnnounUS /jɑrn/

an informal story or conversation

From this reading The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.