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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 At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
alembic
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
all
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
always
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
any
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
appropriation
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
aspect
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
brewed
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
bubblingnounUS /ˈbubbling/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
buildings
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
charter
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
counted
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
Court
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
crazy
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
crucible
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
dark
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
date
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
daughter
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
day
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
debouched
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
del
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
destinies
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
Doctors
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
end
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
fashionable
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
few
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
flowed
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
foreshadowed
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
fourthnounUS /fourth/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
France
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
heart
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
Henry
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
high
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
history
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
houses
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
indebted
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
knownounUS /know/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
known
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
lower
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
lying
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
Madame
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
more
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
most
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
narrow
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
niche
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
nicked
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
north
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
number
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
one-time
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
only
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
openverbUS /ˈoʊ.pən/
To move from a closed position.
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
out
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
own
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
partnounUS /part/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
past
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
Po
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
poisons
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
politic
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
power
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
precincts
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
present
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
Quidnuncs
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
Reale
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
Regency
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
responsibleadjectiveUS /rɪˈspɑnsəbəl/
having a duty to protect or manage something
From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
river
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
said
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
Savoy
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
set
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
side
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
sides
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
sort
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
Square
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
stoodnounUS /stood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
stream
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
street
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From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
superstition
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
three
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
traffic
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
Turin
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
two
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
unoccupied
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
unofficial
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
very
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From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
ViaprepositionUS /ˈvaɪə/
by way of; passing through
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
Victor-Amadeus
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
villainies
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From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
whenceadverbUS /wens/
an old word meaning “from where”
From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading At the lower end of the Via del Po, where it debouched upon the river, stood, nicked out of the north side of the street, a little Square of houses known as the Court of Doctors.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The buildings in this Square--for the most part unoccupied--were very high, very narrow, very crazy, and so few in number that no more than two or three of them counted to any one of its three sides, the fourth lying open to the stream of fashionable traffic which flowed by it all day.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
wife
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From this reading The Court of Doctors, in its present aspect, was said to date from the Regency of Madame Reale--daughter to the fourth Henry of France, and wife to the first Victor-Amadeus of Savoy--to whose politic superstition it had been indebted for a sort of unofficial charter.
withinprepositionUS /wɪˈðɪn/
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading For what destinies foreshadowed, for what poisons brewed, for what villainies set bubbling in crucible and alembic within its precincts its past history was responsible, only its own dark heart might know.
worship
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From this reading Quidnuncs had always been a power in Turin; whence this one-time appropriation of a niche to their worship.
