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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 Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
alley
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
arrived
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From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
Avenue
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
babies
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
besideprepositionUS /bɪˈsaɪd/
next to; at the side of
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
bodies
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
breasts
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
burning
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
cataract
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chairs
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
children
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dancing
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
darkness
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
dirty
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
disgorged
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
dishevelled
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
doorsteps
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down
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
Eris
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From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
far
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
Fat
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
females
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
fire-escapes
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firemen
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
Flares
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
frowsy
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
glares
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
Greenwich
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
Gutters
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
hags
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
half-naked
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
heated
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
herd
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
herenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
hose
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
human
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
hung
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
hydrant
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
Jane
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From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
light-smeared
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
men
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
muted
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
nude
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
o'clock
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From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
openverbUS /ˈoʊ.pən/
To move from a closed position.
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
opened
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
out
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
push-carts
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
redly
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
reeked
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
rusting
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
screaming
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
shouting
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
Sidewalks
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
slops
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
smoky
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
spewed
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
sprawled
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
spray
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
squatted
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
stables
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
stage
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
stank
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
stench
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
Street
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From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
swarmed
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
ten
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From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
tenements
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
there
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
threw
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
trousers
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
tumult
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
turbulent
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From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
two
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
undress
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
unwashed
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From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading Flares burning redly on push-carts threw smoky glares here and there as far as Greenwich Avenue, where the light-smeared darkness was turbulent with human herd.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
windows
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From this reading Fat females with babies at breasts squatted beside dirty doorsteps; dishevelled hags hung out of open windows, frowsy men sprawled on chairs, or nude to the trousers, looked down from rusting fire-escapes at a screaming tumult of half-naked children shouting and dancing in the cataract of spray from a hose which two firemen had opened on them from a hydrant.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Gutters stank; the heated darkness reeked with the stench of stables, slops, and unwashed human bodies.
women
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From this reading Sidewalks still swarmed; tenements had muted and disgorged; every alley spewed women and men in every stage of undress.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading It was not yet ten o’clock when Eris arrived at Jane Street.
