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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 UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
all
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From this reading They painted all day and every day.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
Baker
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
BARK
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
broughtnounUS /ˈbrought/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
caught
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
comradesnounUS /ˈkɑːmrædz/
people who share difficult work or danger, especially soldiers
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
cut
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
day
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From this reading They painted all day and every day.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
doing
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
eighteen
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading They painted all day and every day.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
fisherman
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
followed
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
get
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
girl
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
Gordon
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
hair
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
hand
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
insistedverbUS /ɪnˈsɪstɪd/
demanded something firmly
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
Jonathan
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
Margaret
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
mill
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
mill-dam
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
miller
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
money
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
mustmodal verbUS /mʌst/
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
neck
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
old
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
Oliver
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
once
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
ones
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
other
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
painted
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From this reading They painted all day and every day.
painters
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
pictures
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
pole
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
posed
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
prim
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
rare
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
report
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
sapling
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
school-children
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
school-mistress
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
shortadjectiveUS /ʃɔrt/
brief or direct in expression
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
sincerity
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
SLANT
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
some
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
spectacles
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From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
string
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
TheypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They painted all day and every day.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
too
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
trout
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From this reading And old Jonathan Gordon, the fisherman, posed, too, with a string of trout in one hand and a long pole cut from a sapling in the other.
true
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
two
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
UNDERprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
weeks
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From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading UNDER A BARK SLANT The weeks that followed were rare ones for Margaret and Oliver.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The little school-children posed for them, and so did the prim school-mistress, a girl of eighteen in spectacles with hair cut short in the neck.
young
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From this reading And once our two young comrades painted the mill-dam and the mill--Oliver doing the first and Margaret the last; and Baker, the miller, caught them at it, and insisted in all sincerity that some of the money which the pictures brought must come to him, if the report were true that painters did get money for pictures.
