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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 Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
all
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
Angels
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
away
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
birds
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
bitter
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
Black
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
blackness
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
blossomed
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
branch-hung
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
breathless
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
broughtnounUS /ˈbrought/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
chill
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
contemned
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
dawn
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
DeadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
draughts
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
drink
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
earth
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
East
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
edge
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
envy
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
EreconjunctionUS /er/
an old word for “before”
From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
Fainter
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
foam
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
forest's
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
freshened
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
glimmered
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
gloom
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
glow-worm's
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
halfnounUS /half/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
hem
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
hour
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
hours
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
laced
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
land
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
lantern
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
lay
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
leaves
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
Light
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
like
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
love
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
man
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
marsh
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
miracle
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
more
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
nests
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
newly
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
Night
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
now
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
once
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
pallid
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
paths
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
phantoms
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
primal
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
purple
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
rankling
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
Richard's
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
sea
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
sea-smell
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
sharplynounUS /ˈsharply/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
sky
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
slow
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From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
star-strown
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
stirred
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From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
stole
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From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
thousand
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
ThroughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Through silence, gloom, and star-strown paths of Night The breathless hours like phantoms stole away.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
WhereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading Fainter the glow-worm's lantern glimmered now In the marsh land and on the forest's hem, And the slow dawn with purple laced the sky Where sky and sea lay sharply edge to edge.
windnounUS /wind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A chill wind freshened in the pallid East And brought sea-smell of newly blossomed foam, And stirred the leaves and branch-hung nests of birds.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
wrapt
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
wrought
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From this reading Black lay the earth, in primal blackness wrapt Ere the great miracle once more was wrought.
years
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From this reading Angels of Light! what were a thousand years Of rankling envy and contemned love And all the bitter draughts a man may drink To that half hour of Richard's with his Dead?
