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1843
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
aboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
adornments
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
alert
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
all
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
also
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
AmongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
antediluvian
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
Antequera
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
articles
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
barrel
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
battered
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
bearing
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
built
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
caged
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
cazador
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
characters
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
cherished
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
chiefly
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
constitute
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
converted
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
cork-stoppered
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
cot
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
defies
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
dog
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
enter
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
evernounUS /ever/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
find
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
flinter
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
footnounUS /foot/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
fowling-piece
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
friend
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
gold
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
ground-game
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
hangs
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
Hardly
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
heavily
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
INprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
inevitable
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
inscription
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
inset
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
integral
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
item
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
leathern
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
lonely
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
most
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
native
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
observing
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
ONprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
pachón
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
peasant's
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
pointer
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
posada
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
possesses
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
Possibly
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
pottering
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
powder-horn
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
probably
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
pursuit
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
quail
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
rafters
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
redleg
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
rustic
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
rusty
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
SHOOTINGnounUS /ˈshooting/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
shot-belt
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
sign
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
simple
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
single
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
slung
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
SMALL-GAME
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
some
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From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
SPAIN
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
Spanish
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
stock-in-trade
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
swift
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
thereof
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
ThesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
treasures
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
two
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From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading And from the rafters above will be slung an antediluvian fowling-piece, probably a converted "flinter," bearing upon its rusty single barrel some such inscription--inset in gold characters--as, "Antequera, 1843."
used
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From this reading Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.
village
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From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
wall
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
whitewashed
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From this reading Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.
willmodal verbUS /wɪl/
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading These two articles, along with a cork-stoppered powder-horn and battered leathern shot-belt, constitute the stock-in-trade and most cherished treasures of our rustic friend, the Spanish cazador.
withoutprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading ON SMALL-GAME SHOOTING IN SPAIN Hardly will one enter a village _posada_ or a peasant's lonely cot without observing one inevitable sign.
