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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 Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
attend
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From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
automatic
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
bird-calls
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
brain
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
breeze
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
bruised
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
busy
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From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
cease
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
chambers
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
closed
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
conscious
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
corridors
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
crashes
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
cringed
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
darkened
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
Death
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From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
disfigured
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
doubt
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From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
down
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
Drene
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
earthward
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
elsewhere
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From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
entered
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
exceptprepositionUS /ɪkˈsept/
apart from; not including
From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
goes
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
horizon
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
house
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
lies
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
Like
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
live
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From this reading The things that men live through--and live!
lying
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
man
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
men
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From this reading The things that men live through--and live!
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
obscurity
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
outsidenounUS /ˈoutside/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
pulses
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
reenters
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
remains
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
ruins
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
sky
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
Sometimes
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
soul
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
stirring
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
sunlight
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The things that men live through--and live!
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
there
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
things
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From this reading The things that men live through--and live!
ThroughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
too
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From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
trees
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From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
twilit
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From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But no doubt Death was too busy elsewhere to attend to Drene.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Through the chambers of his brain the twilit corridors where cringed his bruised and disfigured soul, there nothing stirring except the automatic pulses which never cease.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscurity of himself.
world
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From this reading Sometimes, when the sky itself crashes earthward and the world lies in ruins from horizon to horizon, life goes on.
