A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXII
What whisperest thou? Nay, why Name the dead hours? I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by. --DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Nay, why Name the dead hours?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Nay, why Name the dead hours?”
an old word for “no”
From this reading “Nay, why Name the dead hours?”
an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person
From this reading “What whisperest thou?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.”
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From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading --DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Nay, why Name the dead hours?
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading --DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
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From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
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From this reading Nay, why Name the dead hours?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Nay, why Name the dead hours?
an old word for “no”
From this reading Nay, why Name the dead hours?
not any; not one
From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
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From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
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From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
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From this reading --DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Nay, why Name the dead hours?
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Michael Kestyon had paid no heed to the noise of this last arrival.
an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person
From this reading What whisperest thou?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
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From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What whisperest thou?
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From this reading What whisperest thou?
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From this reading Nay, why Name the dead hours?
in the company of; together with
From this reading I mind them well: Their ghosts in many darkened doorways dwell With desolate eyes to know them by.
