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1827
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
adventurer
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
Africa
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
belonging
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
bold
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
Bordeaux
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
brig
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
brilliant
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
broughtnounUS /ˈbrought/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
business
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
Caroline
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
cent
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
Charles
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From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
coast
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
compromise
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
conduct
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From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
cumque
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
derive
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
donenounUS /done/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
eight
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
expected
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
explain
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From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
finenounUS /fine/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
fortunenounUS /ˈfortune/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
francs
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
gain
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
gold-dust
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
Grandet
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
Grandet's
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From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
grasping
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
greedy
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
haste
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
honestadjectiveUS /ˈɑnɪst/
truthful and trustworthy
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
house
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
hundred
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
ideas
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From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
InprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
indefatigable
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
Indies
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
like
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
Lisbon
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
makes
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
man
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
Marie
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
methods
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
mint
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
more
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
namenounUS /name/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
nineteennounUS /ˈnineteen/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
own
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
Paris
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
perprepositionUS /pɜːr/
for each
From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
prosperity
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
pseudonym
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
quibus
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
rapid
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
resolves
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
restnounUS /rest/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
returnednounUS /ˈreturned/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
royalist
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From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
safely
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
seven
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
Shepherd
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
snatchnounUS /snatch/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
spend
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
St
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
States
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
SuchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Such conduct and such ideas explain Charles Grandet’s silence.
taken
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
Thomas
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
thousand
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
United
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From this reading In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of Shepherd, that he might not compromise his own name.
viis
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
villany
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From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading With such methods, prosperity was rapid and brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of business.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Charles Shepherd could safely be indefatigable, bold, grasping, and greedy of gain, like a man who resolves to snatch his fortune _quibus cumque viis_, and makes haste to have done with villany, that he may spend the rest of his life as an honest man.
worth
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From this reading He brought with him nineteen hundred thousand francs worth of gold-dust, from which he expected to derive seven or eight per cent more at the Paris mint.
