Chapter VI

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

A person legally or magically entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

the one or ones belonging to her

From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

used when the thing doing the action is also its object

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

a young woman who is not married

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

not any; not one

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

at the time that

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

which person or people

From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

in the company of; together with

From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading A SELF-WILLED, proud, ambitious woman, with a strong, clear, bold intellect, a passionate temper, and vehement feelings, Martha Muir had been born.

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From this reading So much education as she had, tended all to reduce her to the due humility of poverty and womanhood, but surrounded always by placid natures, who never fully comprehended the stormy spirit with which they had to deal, Martha, dwelling alone, and hiding in her own heart the secret aspirations which no one round her could have understood, remained as proud, as self-willed, and as ambitious as she had been born.

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From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.

strange, beautiful, and impressive

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

Having or showing the qualities or abilities that merit recognition in character or magic.

From this reading Advantages of appearance she had never possessed, and the children who were growing up at her feet absorbed all the passionate affections of their grave sister; but Martha’s hopes were visions of unmitigated ambition, eager to work out for itself a future worthy of its own bold spirit--for it was not of windfalls, or happy chances, or of fortune to be bestowed on her by another, but of that ladder “to which the climber upward turns his face,” that the solitary woman dreamed.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading “She had such a nature, You would have thought some fairy, ’ware o’ th’ hour, When out of heaven came a young soul, predestined For a King’s heir, to make a conqueror of him Had, by some strange and wondrous art, diverted The new-born spirit from its proper course, And hid it in the form of a poor maiden; Leaving the princely weakling in his cradle, Shorn of the fate that waited him: the other Chafing at its caged limits all its days----” OLD PLAY.

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From this reading For hers were not the hopes and fancies common, as people say, to youthful women.