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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 The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
acrossprepositionUS /əˈkrɔːs/
from one side of something to the other
From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
Allerton
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From this reading --Allerton.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
AsconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
barren
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
bigness
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
billows
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
bluffy-banked
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
broad
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
brush
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
crests
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
dared
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
desolate
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
donenounUS /done/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
down
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
dusty
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
earth
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
eastward
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
endlessness
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
face
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
far
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
foam
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
geography-making
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
growth
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
hid
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
just
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
knew
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
land
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
landstuff
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
Lay
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
like
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
LittlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
Lord's
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
low
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
making
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
man's
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
marking
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
mid-ocean
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
National
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
now
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
OFprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
Ohio
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
old
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
openverbUS /ˈoʊ.pən/
To move from a closed position.
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
paint
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
past
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
pen
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
pike
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
prairie
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
prairies
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
road
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
rolled
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
seemingly
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
shipnounUS /ship/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
SIGN
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
slid
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
streams
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
stuff
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
SUNFLOWER
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
then
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
too
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
tracknounUS /træk/
a route or signs showing the way someone went
From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
trail
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
untamed
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
untilprepositionUS /ənˈtɪl/
up to a particular time
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
untold
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
uplands
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
UponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
valleys
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From this reading Upon its face lay the trail, broad and barren of growth as the dusty old National pike road making its way across uplands and valleys of Ohio.
vasty
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
wake
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
watersheds
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
way
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
wealth
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From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
whereon
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From this reading It was untamed stuff, too, whereon one man's marking was like to the track of foam in the wake of one ship in mid-ocean.
WhopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
woodland
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading THE SIGN OF THE SUNFLOWER Little they knew what wealth untold Lay hid where the desolate prairies rolled: Who would have dared, with brush or pen, As this land is now, to paint it then?
wound
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From this reading The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the Lord's earth--just a vasty bigness of landstuff seemingly left over when geography-making was done.
