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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
admired
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From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
adobe
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
all
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
Arizona
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ATprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
bare
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
Bat
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
big
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
black
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
blues
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
Bowles
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From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
bunch
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
bunches
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
canon-deep
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
changed
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
color
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
corrals
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
cottonwoods
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
dash
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
distance
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
evening
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
fairnounUS /fair/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
figure
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
finery
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
foreground
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
girlish
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
give
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
gleamed
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
glow
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
grass
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
halfnounUS /half/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
heavy
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
hill
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
HOME
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
horse
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
house
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
houses
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
inviting
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
kind
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
lake
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
landscape
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From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
like
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
liquid
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
made
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
Many
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
mightily
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From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
most
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
mysteriousadjectiveUS /mɪˈstɪriəs/
difficult to explain or understand
From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
needed
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
out
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
parts
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From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
passednounUS /passed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
pasture
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
place
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
pole
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
purples
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
QUEEN
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
ranch
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
riders
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
rigged
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
sacaton
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
saw-toothed
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
seem
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
shaded
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
sheen
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
sightly
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
silver
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
spread
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
stranger
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From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
summits
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
sunset
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
tame
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
tank
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
times
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
too
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From this reading Bowles was a stranger to those parts and he admired the landscape mightily; but to him too it seemed a little bare.
tooknounUS /took/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
Tortugas
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
touch
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
vigorous
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
vivid
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From this reading It needed a dash of color, a vigorous girlish figure in the foreground, to give it the last vivid touch.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
way
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From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
whirling
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
white
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
wind-tossed
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
windmill
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
Wing
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From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading THE QUEEN AT HOME The Bat Wing ranch, with its big white house on the hill, its whirling windmill, its tank that spread out like a lake and gleamed like liquid silver, its pole corrals, its adobe houses half shaded by wind-tossed cottonwoods, was one of the most sightly in Arizona.
yellow-white
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From this reading The yellow-white sheen of the bunch grass made the distance seem fair and inviting; at sunset the saw-toothed summits of the Tortugas changed to blues and purples and mysterious, canon-deep black; the heavy bunches of sacaton out in the horse pasture gleamed white in the evening glow.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading Many riders passed by that way, rigged out in the finery of their kind, and most of them took it all in--and yet, at times, the place looked kind of bare and tame.
