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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 A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
actually
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
ANDconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
anticipated
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
artists
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
back
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From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
beauty
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
beloved
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
bicycle
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Binham
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Blakeney
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
bound
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
building
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Bull
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Cambridge
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
care
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Ceremonial
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Charles
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Cley-next-Sea
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
closely
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
coast
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From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
Coke
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Cokes
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Cromer
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
designedly
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
desolation
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
determined
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
drive
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From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
eagerness
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From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
Ecclesiastical
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Ely
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
enhanced
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
escape
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Fakenham
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Felbrigg
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
Fenmen
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
FENS
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
follow
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
forward
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From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
four-in-hand
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
FromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
Froude
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
gain
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
girl
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Glanced
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
God
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
goes
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From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
GREAT
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
Hill
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
HisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
history
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Holkham
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Homeward
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Horace
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Houghton
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
hounds
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
HOUSES
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
imagination
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Impressive
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
innocence
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
inspiration
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
intense
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From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
ItsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
justly
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
Kingsley
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Kinship
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
leaving
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
left
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
looked
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From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
Lord
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Lower
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Lynn
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
mad
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
making
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
many
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
mechanically
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From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
miraculous
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Motor-cars
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Motor-cyclist
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
motorist
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
narrow
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
never
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From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
Norfolk
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
north
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From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
now
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
old
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
Orford
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
OurdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
parts
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
passed
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
passion
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
pictures
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
pleasure
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
pointnounUS /pɔɪnt/
the main matter or purpose being discussed
From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
possible
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
practice
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
previous
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
PRIORY
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
pursue
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
quite
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
quoted
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
rain
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
reclaimers
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Remains
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Resistance
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
retrospect
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
Road
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Robert's
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Romantic
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
ruling
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Salthouse
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
sameadjectiveUS /seɪm/
Identical; not different.
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
saying
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From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
sea
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
Sheringham
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Shrine
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
side
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
Sir
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
sort
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
Stag
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Stiffkey
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Strawberry
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
taken
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
temporal
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
throughprepositionUS /θruː/
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
topographical
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From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
towing
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
transportation
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
trickery
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Troubles
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
unready
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Useful
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Value
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
viaprepositionUS /ˈvaɪə/
by way of; passing through
From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Walpole
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Walpoles
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Walsingham
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It is a pleasure in retrospect now, but it was not quite the same sort of pleasure as had been anticipated in previous topographical innocence.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading From this point we never looked back, as the saying goes, mechanically.
Wells
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
Wells-next-Sea
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
Weybourne
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From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading The road we had taken designedly on leaving Cromer, when it was determined to follow the sea as closely as possible, left Felbrigg and Sheringham, justly beloved of artists, on one side, passed through Lower Sheringham, Weybourne, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, and Stiffkey to Wells-next-Sea.
wicked
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From this reading A PRIORY--GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS Troubles over--Road via Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkham--"Coke of Norfolk"--The Cokes--Walsingham--Remains and history--The Shrine--Ecclesiastical trickery and temporal gain--Froude quoted--Ceremonial at the shrine--Its miraculous transportation--Houghton--The Walpoles--Sir Robert's pictures--Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill--The mad Lord Orford--His ruling passion--Stag "four-in-hand"--The hounds pursue--Motor-cars many in these parts--Fakenham--Lynn--Glanced at in the rain--The Fens--Kinship of the Useful and the Romantic--The beauty of the Fens actually, and enhanced by imagination--The great reclaimers--Resistance of the old Fenmen--Charles Kingsley quoted--"The inspiration of God"--To Ely and Cambridge--The "Bull" unready--Homeward bound and a narrow escape--Motor-cyclist towing a girl on a bicycle--A wicked practice--Value of care in motorist.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Our troubles were over, and we looked forward to our drive along the north coast of Norfolk with intense eagerness.
