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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 subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
all
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
always
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
any
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
artificial
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
beings
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
canmodal verbUS /kæn/
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
charm
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
comic
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
common
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From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
concerns
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
condition
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
confidences
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
conjunctions
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From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
consultations
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
continual
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
continually
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
coursenounUS /course/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
curious
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
divinations
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
edge
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
eitherdeterminerUS /ˈiːðər/
one or the other of two
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
else
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
emotion
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
endless
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
enough
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
everyday
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From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
everythingpronounUS /ˈevriθɪŋ/
all things; all of a situation
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
exhausted
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
extraordinary
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
far
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
find
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
foolnounUS /fool/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
fortnight
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
full
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
generally
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
genius
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
higher
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
holds
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From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
influence
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
intercourse
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
knownounUS /know/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
leastnounUS /least/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
longer
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
love-making
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
man
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
matches
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
meetings
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
moment
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
more
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
most
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
much
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
music
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
necessary
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
NothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
oblivious
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
often
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
originate
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
other
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
overpassed
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
pair
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
partynounUS /party/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
passednounUS /passed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
perennially
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
person
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
persons
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
plans
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
pleasure
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
possible
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
preoccupation
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
probably
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
propinquity
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
real
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
recurring
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
removed
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
reveal
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
rule
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From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
rustic
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
said
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From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
series
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
shortadjectiveUS /ʃɔrt/
brief or direct in expression
From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
shouldmodal verbUS /ʃʊd/
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
simple
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
sonata
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
subjects
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
suppressed
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
talk
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
themselvespronounUS /ðemˈselvz/
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
there
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
thoughts
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
touched
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
tragic
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
very
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
way
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading A fortnight had passed of continual intercourse, of much music, of that propinquity which is said to originate more matches than any higher influence.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
woman
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From this reading It is not necessary that there should be any real charm in either party, and what is still more extraordinary, it is possible enough that one may be a person of genius, and the other not far removed from a fool; that one may be simple as a rustic, and the other a man or woman of the world.
world
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From this reading The subjects of these consultations were at the moment in the full course of a sonata, and oblivious of everything else in the world but themselves, their music, and their concerns generally.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading No rule, in short, holds in those extraordinary yet most common and everyday conjunctions.
young
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From this reading Nothing can be more curious than the pleasure which young persons, and even persons who are no longer young, find perennially in this condition of suppressed love-making, this preoccupation of all thoughts and plans in the series of continually recurring meetings, the confidences, the divinations, the endless talk which is never exhausted, and in which the most artificial beings in the world probably reveal more of themselves than they themselves know--when the edge of emotion is always being touched, and very often, by one of the pair at least overpassed, in either a comic or a tragic way.
