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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 Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
acrossprepositionUS /əˈkrɔːs/
from one side of something to the other
From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
aroundprepositionUS /ərˈaʊnd/
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
blood-red
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
breaths
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
breezes
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
cathedral
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
clouds
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
clustering
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
coldness
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
crisp
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
dark
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From this reading Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
day
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
dullness
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
earliest
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From this reading Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
fitful
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
frost
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
gloom
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
heavens
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
Heavy
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
hung
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
leaving
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
light
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
lingering
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
many
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
Night
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From this reading Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
one-half
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
restless
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
roofs
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
sharp
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
shuddering
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
sighs
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
sleep
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
sobbed
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
splendornounUS /ˈsplen.dər/
Magnificent and splendid appearance; grandeur and brilliance.
From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
spring
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From this reading Night had come; a dark night of earliest spring.
starless
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
storm
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
sun
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
sunk
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
There
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From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
tracks
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From this reading The sun had sunk, leaving long tracks of blood-red light across one-half the heavens.
unbroken
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From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was a sharp crisp coldness as of lingering frost in the gloom and the dullness.
wild
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From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The wild day had sobbed itself to sleep after a restless life with fitful breaths of storm and many sighs of shuddering breezes.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading Heavy clouds, as yet unbroken, hung over the cathedral and the clustering roofs around it in dark and starless splendor.