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Playing With Fire
Playing With Fire

Chapter I

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An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.
Glasgow is the city of Human Power.
It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.
There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.
But there are no loungers in them.
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Playing With Fire

Chapter I

Reading 1/99 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.
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Glasgow is the city of Human Power.
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It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.
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There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.
Line 5
But there are no loungers in them.

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

About preposition US /əˈbaʊt/

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading “There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.”

Nothing pronoun US /ˈnʌθɪŋ/

not one thing; not anything

From this reading “There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.”

All words in this reading · 52

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40

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

5

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

adeterminerUS /ə/

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

From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

AndeterminerUS /æn/

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

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

From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/

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

From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

beautiful

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From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

built

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From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

butconjunctionUS /bʌt/

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

city

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From this reading Glasgow is the city of Human Power.

clothed

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

doctrine

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

ESDRAS

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

gives

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From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

Glasgow

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From this reading Glasgow is the city of Human Power.

granite

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From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

gray

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From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

high

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

Human

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From this reading Glasgow is the city of Human Power.

IpronounUS /aɪ/

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

inprepositionUS /ɪn/

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

From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/

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

From this reading Glasgow is the city of Human Power.

ItpronounUS /ɪt/

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

loungers

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From this reading But there are no loungers in them.

mist

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

natural

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From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

nodeterminerUS /noʊ/

not any; not one

From this reading But there are no loungers in them.

nobility

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From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

notadverbUS /nɑːt/

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/

not one thing; not anything

From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Glasgow is the city of Human Power.

often

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

Power

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From this reading Glasgow is the city of Human Power.

priest

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

romantic

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

situation

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

steeped

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

streets

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

thedeterminerUS /ðə/

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

From this reading Glasgow is the city of Human Power.

thempronounUS /ðem/

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading But there are no loungers in them.

There

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

too

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

truth

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From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

vapor

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

wet

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/

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

From this reading It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility.

withprepositionUS /wɪð/

in the company of; together with

From this reading An high priest clothed with doctrine and with truth.--ESDRAS I: 5:40.

wrapped

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.

yellowish

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From this reading There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor.