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

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “aire” — a river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

past form of “arrive” — reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

at or toward the back of something

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the act of burning something

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

placed crosswise

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

to a considerable degree; very much

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “foothill” — a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

at or to or toward the front

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

a contest with rules to determine a winner

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “gaucho” — a cowboy of the South American pampas

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

shoot down, of birds

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

wild llama

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

plural of “horse” — solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “hundred” — ten 10s

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

without bounds

From this reading There was to me something infinitely romantic about Lake Buenos Aires.

plural of “lagoon” — a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “lake” — a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

superlative of “large” — above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

immediately past

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

a formation of people or things one beside another

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

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From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

move something or somebody to a lower position

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

plural of “marsh” — low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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

From this reading There was to me something infinitely romantic about Lake Buenos Aires.

come together

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

plural of “morning” — the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

an interconnected system of things or people

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

not any; not one

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

advanced in years; (“aged” is pronounced as two syllables)

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “ostrich” — a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the vast grassy plains of northern Argentina

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

something having the property of being analogous to something else

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

past form of “reach” — reach a destination, either real or abstract

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “return” — document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

From this reading There was to me something infinitely romantic about Lake Buenos Aires.

reflecting optimism

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a charge of ammunition for a single shot

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “ruin” — an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the act of causing something to go (especially messages)

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

the act of firing a projectile

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the land along the edge of a body of water

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “shore” — the land along the edge of a body of water

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

a thing, without saying which

From this reading There was to me something infinitely romantic about Lake Buenos Aires.

toward the south

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

(of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “stretch” — a large and unbroken expanse or distance

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

plural of “summit” — the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

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

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

in or at that place or location

From this reading There was to me something infinitely romantic about Lake Buenos Aires.

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

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

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “track” — a line or route along which something travels or moves

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a track or mark left by something that has passed

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “trip” — a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

the topmost one of two

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

plural of “vestige” — an indication that something has been present

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

go to see a place, as for entertainment

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

migratory

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

past form of “watch” — look attentively

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading At last we had arrived at Lake Buenos Aires, a time long looked forward to.

plural of “week” — any period of seven consecutive days

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

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

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

a Caucasian

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

belonging to which person

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

From this reading The pampas were crossed and left behind, and the lower line of the Andes was reached, the foothills of the great range whose upper summits we had watched for weeks lying high on the sky-line, blue and white and cold, sending the message of a great wind from them to us.

in the company of; together with

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.

extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

From this reading We were now upon the shores of the largest of the wonderful network of lakes and lagoons which stretches parallel with the Cordillera hundreds of miles to the southward, ending not far from the Straits of Magellan.

people who are wounded

From this reading ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES Chain of lakes -- Size of lake -- Sterility and fertility -- Trips to Cordillera -- Bones of dead game -- Shores of lake -- Western shore -- Tracks in marshes -- Northern shore -- Rosy camp by Fenix -- Guanaco hunt -- Horses stray -- Cordillera wolf -- Vain search for huemul -- Return to Horsham Camp -- Trip to River Deseado -- Paradise of wildfowl -- Shooting ostriches -- Long-necked game of Patagonia -- No ruins or vestiges of older civilisation in Patagonia -- Hunting mornings -- Wounded guanaco -- Indian trail -- Trip to River de los Antiguos -- Meet ostrich-hunter -- Wandering Gauchos -- Wanton burning of grass -- Second visit to Rosy Camp -- Flamingoes -- Danger-signals -- Scrivenor returns to Horsham Camp -- River de los Antiguos.