Chapter I
"Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells! What a world of happiness Their melody foretells!" "Hark! there's the wedding-march." "Here they come!" "Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
A Dreadful Temptation
Chapter I
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"Hear
the
mellow
wedding-bells--
Golden
bells!
What
a
world
of
happiness
Their
melody
foretells!"
"Hark!
there's
the
wedding-march."
"Here
they
come!"
"Looks
as
white
as
a
corpse,
doesn't
she?"
LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Line 1
"Hear
the
mellow
wedding-bells--
Golden
bells!
Line 2
What
a
world
of
happiness
Their
melody
foretells!"
Line 3
"Hark!
there's
the
wedding-march."
Line 4
"Here
they
come!"
/here ðeɪ come/
Line 5
"Looks
as
white
as
a
corpse,
doesn't
she?"
Learner Dictionary
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.
Come
noun
US /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"Here they come!"”
Hear
noun
US /hear/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells!”
Here
noun
US /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"Here they come!"”
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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 What a world of happiness Their melody foretells!"
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
bells
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From this reading "Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells!
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "Here they come!"
corpse
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From this reading "Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
doesn't
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From this reading "Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
foretells
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Golden
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From this reading "Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells!
happiness
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Hark
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From this reading "Hark! there's the wedding-march."
HearnounUS /hear/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells!
HerenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "Here they come!"
Looks
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From this reading "Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
mellow
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From this reading "Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells!
melody
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From this reading What a world of happiness Their melody foretells!"
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading What a world of happiness Their melody foretells!"
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells!
TheirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading What a world of happiness Their melody foretells!"
there's
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From this reading "Hark! there's the wedding-march."
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Here they come!"
wedding-bells
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From this reading "Hear the mellow wedding-bells-- Golden bells!
wedding-march
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From this reading "Hark! there's the wedding-march."
WhatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What a world of happiness Their melody foretells!"
white
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From this reading "Looks as white as a corpse, doesn't she?"
world
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From this reading What a world of happiness Their melody foretells!"