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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
afternoonnounUS /ˈafternoon/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
aged
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
all
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From this reading To her it had all been part of the unavoidable misery of life.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
awakened
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From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
bear
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading To her it had all been part of the unavoidable misery of life.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
BetweenprepositionUS /bɪˈtwiːn/
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
came
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
comes
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
deeper
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
ears
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
endured
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
eyes
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From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
feelingnounUS /ˈfeeling/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
flamenounUS /fleɪm/
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
flash
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
gazed
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
glimmer
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From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
grasped
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
Guise's
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
herspronounUS /hərz/
the one or ones belonging to her
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
husband
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
ill
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading To her it had all been part of the unavoidable misery of life.
Joel
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
knownounUS /know/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
lashes
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
Louise
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
master
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
Mazarine
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
meant
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
misery
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From this reading To her it had all been part of the unavoidable misery of life.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
new
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
old
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
only
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From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
Orlando
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
out
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
pain
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
pale
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
partnounUS /part/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading To her it had all been part of the unavoidable misery of life.
pass
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
really
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
relations
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
renewed
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
revelation
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
seen
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
slave
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
soul
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
sounded
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
spread
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
sunny
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
sunrises
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
three
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
torture
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From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
trembling
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
two
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
unavoidable
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From this reading To her it had all been part of the unavoidable misery of life.
understanding
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From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
voice
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding.
willmodal verbUS /wɪl/
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, with pain which will be renewed and renewed, but pain only, and not the deeper torture of the soul; for she had never really grasped what their relations meant.
window
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
world
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From this reading Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was.
years
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From this reading But on that sunny afternoon when Orlando Guise’s voice first sounded in her ears, and his eyes looked into hers as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been.
