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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 Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
affection
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
alike
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
all
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
armor
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
arms
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
battle-stained
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
behindprepositionUS /bɪˈhaɪnd/
at or toward the back of something
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
bent
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
best
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
bier
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
black
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
blind
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
bosom
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
broken
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
brooded
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
cast
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
convenience
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
corner
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
dark
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
dead
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
dinted
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
drawn
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
fair
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
fanciful
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
fingers
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
flowing
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
folded
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
fool
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
gentle
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
gifts
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
girl
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
given
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
giving
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
gray
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
head
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
heart
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
heave
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
herselfpronounUS /hərˈself/
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
hollow
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
how
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
indifferent
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
knew
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
lay
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
leave
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
light
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
lines
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
long
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
love
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
maidennoun, literaryUS /ˈmeɪdən/
a young woman who is not married
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
mepronounUS /miː/
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
missive
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
much
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
narrow
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
near
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
night
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
now
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
pace
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
pale
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
penned
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
poor
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
read
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
recognize
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
remembering
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
rent
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
reward
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
rising
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
safely
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
scabbard
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
scribe's
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
seemed
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
shield
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
shone
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
shook
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
short
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
silk
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
space
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
sprung
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
start
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
steel
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
stern
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
still
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
stool
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
sweet
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
sword
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
take
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
taken
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
tearless
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
tender
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
tent
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
then
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
there
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
thing
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
thought
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
tide
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
time
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
toy
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
translate
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
tremor
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
unfed
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
ungloved
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
unhelmeted
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
Unwashed
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
up
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
vessel
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
visor-bars
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
warm
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From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
watch
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
watched
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
wayward
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
white
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From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Unwashed, unfed, my dinted armor on me still--battle-stained and rent--unhelmeted, ungloved, my sword and scabbard cast by my hollow shield in a dark corner of the tent, I watched, tearless and stern, all that night by the bier of the pale white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward.
why
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From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading I, who, so fanciful and wayward, had thought I might safely toy with the sweet tender of her affection--sprung how or why I knew not--and take or leave it as seemed best to my convenience, brooded, all the long black watch, over that gentle broken vessel that lay there white and still before me, alike indifferent to gifts or giving.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading And now and then I would start up from the stool I had drawn near to her, and pace, with bent head and folded arms, the narrow space, remembering how warm the rising tide of love had been flowing in my heart for that fair dead thing so short a time before.
wrote
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
yesterday
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From this reading Why, it was but yesterday that she wrote for me that missive to herself: and I, fool and blind, could not read the light that shone behind those gray visor-bars as she penned the lines, or translate the tremor that shook that sweet scribe’s fingers, or recognize the heave of the maiden bosom under its steel and silk!
