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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 scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
accidental
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
Adele
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
aerial
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
agitations
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
bewitching
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
connected
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From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
consciousness
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From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
continually
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
Court
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
days
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
deepening
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
deeply
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From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
discovered
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
dreams
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
duringprepositionUS /ˈdʊrɪŋ/
all through a period, or at some point within it
From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
entered
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
events
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
festivities
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
filled
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
flight
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
flowed
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
fraught
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
glamour
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
golden
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
greatest
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
happiness
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
heart
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
herselfpronounUS /hərˈself/
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
imprinted
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From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
interest
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
intoxicating
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
Lansdowne's
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
LASTnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE LAST SLEEP.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
lives
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
love
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
memorynounUS /ˈmem.ər.i/
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
mingled
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
Miramichi
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
more
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From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
Mr
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
occurred
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
Paris
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
power
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
reproach
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From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
residence
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
Rossillon
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
scenes
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
side
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
SLEEP
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From this reading THE LAST SLEEP.
somewhat
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From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
strange
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
sweet
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE LAST SLEEP.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
there
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From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
ThosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
transpired
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
walls
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From this reading Adele had long since discovered that the events of greatest interest in her life had transpired before she entered the walls of Rossillon, or mingled in the festivities of the Court at Paris.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The scenes that occurred at Miramichi, during Mr. Lansdowne's accidental residence there, were fraught with a power over her heart, continually deepening with the flight of time.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading Those days were imprinted yet more deeply in her memory by a consciousness that there was somewhat with which to reproach herself connected with them.
youthful
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From this reading Those golden days, when their lives flowed side by side, had been filled with the strange, sweet agitations, the aerial dreams, the bewitching glamour, the intoxicating happiness of a first and youthful love.
