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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 Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
AboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
againnounUS /again/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
Agra
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
approaches
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
away
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
banks
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
bed
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
belowprepositionUS /bɪˈloʊ/
at or to a lower level than something
From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
big
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
brick
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
bridge
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
broad
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From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
C
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
capped
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
cart-road
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From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
construction-line
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
diameter
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
E
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
EachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
eighteen
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From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
eighty
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
eitherdeterminerUS /ˈiːðər/
one or the other of two
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
end
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
feet
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
fifteen
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From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
Findlayson
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
flanked
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From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
flared
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
footpaths
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From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
forwardnounUS /forward/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
Ganges
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
guns
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
haunches
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
huge
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
lattice-girder
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
lengthnounUS /leŋθ/
a period of time or extent
From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
loopholed
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
main
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
mile
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
miles
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
musketry
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
north
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
permitted
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
pierced
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
piers
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
pushed
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
railway-line
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From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
ramp
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
ran
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
red
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
revetments
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
river
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
road
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
rose
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
sand
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
sat
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
seven-and-twenty
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
shifting
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
side
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
south
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
standingnounUS /ˈstanding/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
stone
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
stone-faced
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
sunk
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Above them ran the railway-line fifteen feet broad; above that, again, a cart-road of eighteen feet, flanked with footpaths.
thinknounUS /think/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
three
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
three-quarters
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
towers
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From this reading At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
trolley
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From this reading Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction-line that ran along one of the main revetments--the huge, stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river--and permitted himself to think of the end.
truss
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
trussed
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
twenty-four
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From this reading Each one of those piers was twenty-four feet in diameter, capped with red Agra stone and sunk eighty feet below the shifting sand of the Ganges' bed.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
WithprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
work
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From this reading With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.
