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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 Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
accompanied
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
arrived
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
bell
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
broke
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
built
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
called
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
century
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
chain
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
cheek
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
Count
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
countryside
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
daughter
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
eachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
eighteenth
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
eleven
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
enclosurenounUS /ˈenclosure/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
end
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
fed
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
fields
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
flat
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
Fondettes
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
garden
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
gave
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
Georges
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
high-embowered
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
horizon's
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
house
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
household
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
huge
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
Hugon
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
invited
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
kindly
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
kisses
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
leads
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
Les
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
lunch
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
magnificent
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
maternal
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
middle
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
Mme
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
monotony
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
Muffat
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
o'clock
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
only
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
Orleans
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
overnight
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
Paris
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
perfectly
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
possessed
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
rich
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
road
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
runningnounUS /ˈrunning/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
Sabine
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
said
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
second
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
shady
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
side
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
smiling
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
son
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
spend
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
spring
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
square
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From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
staying
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
stoodnounUS /stood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
stretched
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
tanks
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
there
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
together
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
trees
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
two
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
unadorned
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
verdure
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
verge
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From this reading It stood at the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and with its rich verdure and high-embowered trees broke the monotony of that flat countryside, where fields stretched to the horizon’s verge.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
water
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From this reading It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed magnificent shady trees and a chain of tanks fed by running spring water.
way
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
week
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The house, which had been built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle of a huge square enclosure.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
whole
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From this reading At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so:
wife
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From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Count Muffat, accompanied by his wife and daughter, had arrived overnight at Les Fondettes, where Mme Hugon, who was staying there with only her son Georges, had invited them to come and spend a week.
