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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 Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
all
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
always
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
amauxiliary verbUS /æm/
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
anagram
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
Ariel
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
Ariel's
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
Arles
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
Arlesian
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
back
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
bare
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
beautiful
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
bones
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
Camargue
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
city
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
clings
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
come
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
coral
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
courtly
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
dating
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
days
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
dead
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
delta
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
dirge
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
doesauxiliary verbUS /dʌz/
the form of “do” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
dothauxiliary verbUS /dɔːθ/
an old form of “does”
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
dust
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
even
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
ever
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
extended
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
eyes
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
fade
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
fair
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
fairest
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
far
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
flakes
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
flutters
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
ForprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
glow
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
golden
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
great
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
haunt
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
imperfect
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
IntoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
iridescent
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
kings
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
knights
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
ladies
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
lagoons
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
leave
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
like
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
lonely
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
long
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
made
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
melodiously
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
memorynounUS /ˈmem.ər.i/
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
midst
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
miles
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
Montmajour
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
music
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
never
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
northward
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
NothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
own
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
pearls
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
peculiar
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
people
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
picturesqueness
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
place
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
poignancy
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From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
receded
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
reminded
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
revels
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
Rhone
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
rich
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
rock
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
roofs
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
ruins
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
scales
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
sea-change
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
seems
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
significance
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
situation
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
somehow
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
somethingpronounUS /ˈsʌmθɪŋ/
a thing, without saying which
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
song
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
sounding
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
stately
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
stoodverbUS /stʊd/
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
strange
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
suffer
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
sunburnt
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
there
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
think
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
ThosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
three
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
time
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
town
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
truth
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
valley
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
vast
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
Venice
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
very
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From this reading The town itself is one of the very fairest in the Rhone valley, beautiful in its ruins, in its situation, in the stately picturesqueness of its people.
walls
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
wide
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From this reading I never think of it but I am somehow reminded of Ariel’s song:-- “_Of his bones are coral made;_ _Those are pearls that were his eyes:_ _Nothing of him that doth fade,_ _But doth suffer a sea-change_ _Into something rich and strange._” For in truth that very sea-change is there, dating from a time when the city stood, like Venice, in the midst of wide lagoons, which extended so far as the great rock of Montmajour three miles northward, and which have since receded to leave bare the vast lonely delta of the Camargue.
wild
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From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Those Arlesian days always come back to my memory with a peculiar glow and poignancy all their own.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading Ariel and Arles! there seems even a significance in the imperfect anagram; for does not wild music for ever haunt the place, melodiously sounding the dirge of kings long dead, of knights and fair ladies and courtly revels, whose iridescent dust yet clings about the walls, or flutters in golden flakes and scales over the sunburnt roofs.
