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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 And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
actions
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
actually
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
againnounUS /again/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
againstprepositionUS /əˈɡenst/
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
all
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
anachronistic
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
any
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
anywhere
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
appear
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
appears
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
army
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
assailed
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
balanced
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
bedeviled
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
befuddled
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
bornnounUS /born/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
canmodal verbUS /kæn/
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
Clyde
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
coincident
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
compared
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
completenounUS /complete/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
complexity
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
confronted
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
confronting
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
connection
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
counsel
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
courage
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
departure
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
destruction
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
difficulty
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
disappointed
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
disorder
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
door
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
eager
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
else
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
endure
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
erroneous
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
escape
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
escaping
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
extent
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
eyes
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
fate
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
flight
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
force
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
forwardnounUS /forward/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
full
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
haphazard
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
hitherto
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
hold
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
hour
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
imaginative
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
impending
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
instance
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
instances
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
item
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
leastnounUS /least/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
leaving
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
looknounUS /look/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
major
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
manner
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
master
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
meditate
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
mentality
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
mindnounUS /mind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
mistaken
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
moment
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
moments
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
morbidly
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
most
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
neitherdeterminerUS /ˈniːðər/
not one and not the other of two
From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
norconjunctionUS /nɔːr/
and not; used after a negative to add a second negative
From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
only
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
own
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
panic
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
pausing
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
poorly
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
precipitate
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
problem
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
psychogenetically
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
reason
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
recede
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
resorting
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
routed
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
samenounUS /same/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
schemes
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
seeking
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
sensitively
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
shaken
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
small
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
smallest
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
solution
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
some
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
state
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
strained
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
strengthnounUS /ˈstrength/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
sufficient
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
suggested
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
temporary
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
There
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
thoughts
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From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
throne
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
thrusting
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
times
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
Times-Union
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
topplingadjectiveUS /ˈtɑːpəlɪŋ/
falling or likely to fall over
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
totters
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
turbulent
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From this reading And yet again at moments the solution suggested by the item in _The Times-Union_ again thrusting itself forward, psychogenetically, born of his own turbulent, eager and disappointed seeking.
unescapable
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
unreason
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
various
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
wake
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From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
warped
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From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
way
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
weirdest
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
well
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
wentnounUS /went/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The strained and bedeviled look in his eyes at moments--the manner in which, from moment to moment and hour to hour, he went over and over his hitherto poorly balanced actions and thoughts but with no smallest door of escape anywhere.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
wholly
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From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
willmodal verbUS /wɪl/
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading In such instances the will and the courage confronted by some great difficulty which it can neither master nor endure, appears in some to recede in precipitate flight, leaving only panic and temporary unreason in its wake.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading There are moments when in connection with the sensitively imaginative or morbidly anachronistic--the mentality assailed and the same not of any great strength and the problem confronting it of sufficient force and complexity--the reason not actually toppling from its throne, still totters or is warped or shaken--the mind befuddled to the extent that for the time being, at least, unreason or disorder and mistaken or erroneous counsel would appear to hold against all else.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading And in this instance, the mind of Clyde might well have been compared to a small and routed army in full flight before a major one, yet at various times in its precipitate departure, pausing for a moment to meditate on some way of escaping complete destruction and in the coincident panic of such a state, resorting to the weirdest and most haphazard of schemes of escaping from an impending and yet wholly unescapable fate.
