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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 In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
aboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
all
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
Almost
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
always
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
apron
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
attracted
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
Avenue
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
bag
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
basket
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
battered
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
betweenprepositionUS /bɪˈtwiːn/
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
boy
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
brass
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Bundleton
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
butter
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
called
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
change
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
chickens
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Cincinnati
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city
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
coffee
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
collectors
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
corner
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
count
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
cream
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
cuffs
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
curds
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
curios
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
Dairy
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
daughter
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
days
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
denizens
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
desk
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
dumped
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
eggs
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
fat
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
flat
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
FourthnounUS /fourth/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
fronting
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
furniture
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
Garden
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
glittering
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
greater
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
groceries
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
ham
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
Heffern
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
home
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
IfconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
InprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
invitingly
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
Island
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
kitchen
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
Kling's
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
laid
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
lamb-chops
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
LongnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
Madison
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
man
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
Mary
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
milk
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
Mrs
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needs
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
old
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
Otto
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
out
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
pair
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
paper
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
Philadelphia
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pitchernounUS /ˈpɪtʃər/
a container with a handle and a lip, used for holding and pouring liquids
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
plate
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
Porterfield
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
really
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
scales
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
search
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
sent
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
shop-windows
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
sidewalks
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
similar
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
sirloin
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
soothing
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
Square
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
stimulating
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
stores
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
sugar
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
supplied
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From this reading Almost all the needs of a greater one could be supplied by the stores fronting its sidewalks.
tea
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
Tom
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From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
tunnel
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From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
wanted
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
watched
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
weighednounUS /ˈweighed/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading In the days when Otto Kling's shop-windows attracted collectors in search of curios and battered furniture, “The Avenue,” as its denizens always called Fourth Avenue between Madison Square Garden and the tunnel, was a little city in itself.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
white
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From this reading If tea, coffee, sugar, and similar stimulating and soothing groceries were wanted, old Bundleton, on the corner above Kling's, in a white apron and paper cuffs, weighed them out.
wicker
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From this reading If it were a sirloin, or lamb-chops, or Philadelphia chickens, or a Cincinnati ham, fat Porterfield, watched over from her desk by fat Mrs. Porterfield, dumped them on a pair of glittering brass scales and sent them home to your kitchen invitingly laid out in a flat wicker basket.
youpronounUS /juː/
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
yourdeterminerUS /jɔːr/
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading If it were butter or eggs, milk, cream, or curds, the Long Island Dairy--which was really old man Heffern, his daughter Mary, and his boy Tom--had them in a paper bag, or on your plate, or into your pitcher before you could count your change.
