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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 When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
Anson
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
asleep
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
beginnings
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
built
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
called
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
came
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
certain
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
citizens
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
concealed
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
country
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
dappled
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
day
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
days
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
decay
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
distantadjectiveUS /ˈdɪstənt/
not friendly or close
From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
Durham
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
elm-trees
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
empty
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
event
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
faint
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
falling
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
fewer
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
fold
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
grass
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
halfnounUS /half/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
Hampshire
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
herenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
High
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
house
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
houses
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
hundred
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
inland
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
inscription
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
invisible
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
knew
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
land
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
lay
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
lying
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
marble
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
marked
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
meeting-house
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
migration
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
mountains
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
nearly
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
New
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
old
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
Olivia
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
peacefulness
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
Pentland
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
Pentlands
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
people
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
quiet
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
read
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
recording
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
robbed
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
sea
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
seventy-five
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
shadows
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
shuttered
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
single
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
slab
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
sleeping
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
sleepy
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
slow
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
spire
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
stayed
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
street
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
sturdiest
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
summer
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
surmounted
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
surrounded
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
There
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
thick
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From this reading In the thick grass that surrounded the old meeting-house there lay a marble slab recording the event with an inscription which read:
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
thus
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
view
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
village
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
white
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
wife
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From this reading When Olivia first came to the old house as the wife of Anson Pentland, the village of Durham, which lay inland from Pentlands and the sea, had been invisible, lying concealed in a fold of the land which marked the faint beginnings of the New Hampshire mountains.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
wooden
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From this reading There had been in the view a certain sleepy peacefulness: one knew that in the distant fold of land surmounted by a single white spire there lay a quiet village of white wooden houses built along a single street called High Street that was dappled in summer with the shadows of old elm-trees.
years
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From this reading In those days it had been a country village, half asleep, with empty shuttered houses here and there falling into slow decay--a village with fewer people in it than there had been a hundred years before.
young
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From this reading It had stayed thus sleeping for nearly seventy-five years, since the day when a great migration of citizens had robbed it of its sturdiest young people.
