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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 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
always
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From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
anonymity
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
Aphrodite
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
appear
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
Athena
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
Australians
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From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
Beat
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best
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From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
ByprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
calls
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
character
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classics
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From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
comradesnounUS /ˈkɑːmrædz/
people who share difficult work or danger, especially soldiers
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
consented
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dine
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From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
error
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everybody's
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exclaiming
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
fascinated
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From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
Favourite
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
forego
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foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
gaily
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From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
godlike
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
Gordon
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From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
Greek
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
havingauxiliary verbUS /ˈhævɪŋ/
the -ing form of “have”
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
HepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
Ho
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From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
hope
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From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
horse-racing
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From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
How
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
hundred
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
hunting
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From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
Indeed
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
Leonidas
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
letauxiliary verbUS /let/
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
light
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
liked
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From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
lips
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
local
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loved
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
magazines
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
makes
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
much
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From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
night
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From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
occasionally
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
paper
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Plato
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poems
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Polyxena
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
printer's
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From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
produced
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quantities
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
rash
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
rather
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
represents
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
rhyming
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
rough
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From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
scraps
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
scribbled
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scroll
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
sent
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
shallmodal verbUS /ʃæl/
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
shyly
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
somewhat
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From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
spiritedadjectiveUS /ˈspɪrɪtɪd/
full of energy and determination
From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
statements
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
sup
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From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
Thermopylae
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
ThisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/
in spite of the fact that
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
three
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
tillprepositionUS /tɪl/
up to a particular time
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
uncertain
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From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
unsigned
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
unsuspected
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
up
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
verse-writer
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From this reading Indeed, it was not till he found that How We Beat the Favourite was on everybody's lips that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-writer, having up to that time produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them unsigned to the local magazines.
very
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From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading By the classics Gordon was always very much fascinated.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading What the Australians liked best were his spirited, if somewhat rough, horse-racing and hunting poems.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading He loved what he calls 'the scroll that is godlike and Greek,' though he is rather uncertain about his quantities, rhyming 'Polyxena' to 'Athena' and 'Aphrodite' to 'light,' and occasionally makes very rash statements, as when he represents Leonidas exclaiming to the three hundred at Thermopylae:
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading 'Ho! comrades let us gaily dine-- This night with Plato we shall sup,' if this be not, as we hope it is, a printer's error.
