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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 |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
accumulated
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
actual
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
age
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
all
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
alleys
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
autumn
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
beggars
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
beneathprepositionUS /bɪˈniːθ/
Directly under; in or to a lower position than.
From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
betweenprepositionUS /bɪˈtwiːn/
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
blinks
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
bound
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
boundaries
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
broad
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
brokennounUS /broken/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
buildings
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
burnt
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
centre
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
centuries
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
choked
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
city
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
compelled
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
covered
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
crouches
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
crowded
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
day
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
dingy
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
dirt
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
discoloured
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
distantadjectiveUS /ˈdɪstənt/
not friendly or close
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
dreary
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
dull
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
dutynounUS /ˈduːti/
a responsibility that must be carried out
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
exchange
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
eye
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
fate
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
festers
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
filthy
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
flats
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
flowers
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
forty
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
freeadjectiveUS /friː/
acting without enough restraint or discipline
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
fresh
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
herenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
hillocks
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
Hiram
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
huge
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
humbly
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
imperial
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
InprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
inhabited
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
interminably
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
jammed
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
kitchen-middens
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
labyrinth
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
lazaretto
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
lies
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
lines
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
low
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
mass
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
midst
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
modern
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
monasteries
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
mouldering
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
mounds
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
muddy
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
narrow
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
nature
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
nobler
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
OnepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
peeling
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
pestilence
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
plain
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
pollard-lined
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
ragged
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
rags
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
reeking
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
rich
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
river
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
roads
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
Rome
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
rubbish
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
ruins
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
shabby
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
shapeless
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
shrivelled
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
shrunken
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
silent
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
sin
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
skirt
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
some
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
sordid
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
spring
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
straggling
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
straight
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
stretching
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
stucco
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
stunted
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
summer
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
sun
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
sunlit
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
tatters
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
there
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
tile-roofed
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
tortuous
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
town
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
undulating
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
unoccupied
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
unpicturesque
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
untrammelled
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
very
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From this reading In the very centre, along some low flats that bound a dull, muddy, silent river, the actual inhabited city itself crouches humbly beneath the mouldering ruins of a nobler age.
vineyards
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
visibly
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
walls
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From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
weather-stained
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From this reading A shapeless mass of dingy, weather-stained, discoloured, tile-roofed buildings, with all its stucco peeling in the sun, it lies crowded and jammed into a narrow labyrinth of tortuous alleys, reeking with dirt, and rich in ragged filthy beggars.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
wild
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
Winthrop's
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
WithinprepositionUS /wɪˈðɪn/
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading Within its huge imperial walls the shrunken modern town has left a broad skirt of unoccupied hillocks; low mounds covered by stunted straggling vineyards, or broken here and there by shabby unpicturesque monasteries, with long straight pollard-lined roads stretching interminably in dreary lines between the distant boundaries.
woods
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From this reading One huge lazaretto of sin and pestilence, choked with the accumulated rubbish and kitchen-middens of forty centuries--that was Hiram Winthrop's Rome--the Rome which fate and duty compelled him to exchange for the wild woods and the free life of untrammelled nature.
yellow
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From this reading |In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day.
