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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 “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
adjoining
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading So Stanley and Mrs. Patterson.
artists
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
audience
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
Barton
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
batteries
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
Black
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
bornnounUS /born/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
closely
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
club
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
compelled
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
composed
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And even the old-times women gasped.
eyes
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
forty-five
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
gasped
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From this reading And even the old-times women gasped.
guests
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
Hanley
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
hau
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
Hawaii
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
Hawaiian
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
heard
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
herselfpronounUS /hərˈself/
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
human
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
husband
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
Ida
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
indecent
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
islands
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
It's
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
laired
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
lanais
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
majority
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
matron
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
members
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
Mrs
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From this reading So Stanley and Mrs. Patterson.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
nextnounUS /next/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
old-timers
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
old-times
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From this reading And even the old-times women gasped.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
Ostend
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
Outrigger
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
Patterson
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From this reading So Stanley and Mrs. Patterson.
positively
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
run
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
said
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
seaside
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
shade
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
SoconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So Stanley and Mrs. Patterson.
Stanley
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From this reading So Stanley and Mrs. Patterson.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
thereforeadverbUS /ˈðerfɔːr/
for that reason; as a result
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
too-stout-in-the-middle
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From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
tourist
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From this reading The majority of the Outrigger audience was composed, not of tourist guests, but of club members and old-timers in Hawaii.
tree
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
unlike
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
verandas
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From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading “It’s positively indecent,” said Mrs. Hanley Black to her husband, herself a too-stout-in-the-middle matron of forty-five, who had been born in the Hawaiian islands, and who had never heard of Ostend.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger _lanais_ (verandas) and in the _hau_-tree shade of the closely adjoining seaside.
women
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From this reading And even the old-times women gasped.
