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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 The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
Ape
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
behindprepositionUS /bɪˈhaɪnd/
at or toward the back of something
From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
bellow
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From this reading Then a hoarse bellow broke out from near the ground.
besideprepositionUS /bɪˈsaɪd/
next to; at the side of
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
bridge
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From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
broke
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From this reading Then a hoarse bellow broke out from near the ground.
Bull
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
came
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
circle
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
criednounUS /cried/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The flood lessens even now,” it cried.
crouched
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
darkness
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
drinking-bottle
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
drunken
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The flood lessens even now,” it cried.
fallen
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
falls
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From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
flood
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From this reading “The flood lessens even now,” it cried.
flourishing
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
grey
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
ground
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From this reading Then a hoarse bellow broke out from near the ground.
hair
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
hoarse
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From this reading Then a hoarse bellow broke out from near the ground.
Hour
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From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
image
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “The flood lessens even now,” it cried.
jewels
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
leaped
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
lessens
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From this reading “The flood lessens even now,” it cried.
like
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
Man
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
man-wise
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
monstrous
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
near
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From this reading Then a hoarse bellow broke out from near the ground.
neck
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
now
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From this reading “The flood lessens even now,” it cried.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
Other
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
out
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From this reading Then a hoarse bellow broke out from near the ground.
place
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
rain
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
seated
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
shadows
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
shoulders
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
shrine
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
spilled
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
staff
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From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
stands
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From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
Then
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From this reading Then a hoarse bellow broke out from near the ground.
there
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From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
water
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From this reading “Hour by hour the water falls, and their bridge still stands!”
wentnounUS /went/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Other shadows came and went behind the circle, among them a drunken Man flourishing staff and drinking-bottle.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading The Bull crouched beside the shrine, and there leaped from the darkness a monstrous grey Ape, who seated himself man-wise in the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders.
