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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 _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Absit
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
anythingpronounUS /ˈeniθɪŋ/
any thing at all
From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
attendant
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
autotype
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
average
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From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
best
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
blunders
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
brick-making
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
chapter
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
clergyman's
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
concert
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
conflagration
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Daireen
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
dance
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
detective
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
dictum
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
edition
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
editors
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
entertainment
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
essential
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
evernounUS /ever/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
faults
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
fauna
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
favourite
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
feat
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
few
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
flora
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
Goschcn
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Hamlet
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
horticultural
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
humorous
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
IFconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
impossible
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From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
impressed
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
interment
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Irish
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
item
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
king
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
land
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
lengthnounUS /leŋθ/
a period of time or extent
From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
makenounUS /make/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
mepronounUS /miː/
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
meant
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
Moors
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
more
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
most
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
notable
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
novel
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
obviously
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From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
occurred
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
omen
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
original
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
other
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
others
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
out
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From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
overland
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Paradise
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
place
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
poem
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
printers
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
printing
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
proof
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From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.
really
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
reasonsnounUS /ˈreasons/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
record
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
regarding
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
remarkablenounUS /ˈremarkable/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
route
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Russia
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
setting
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
shortadjectiveUS /ʃɔrt/
brief or direct in expression
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
some
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From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
sporting
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
story
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Straw
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
success
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
suggestion
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
Susanna
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
themselvespronounUS /ðemˈselvz/
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
transformed
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
tulip
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
up
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
very
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
violets
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.
Why
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.
wrath
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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_
written
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From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.
