Chapter V

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

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

following the length of something from one end toward the other

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

To consume or be consumed by fire.

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

members of a ship’s crew

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

not any; not one

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

above and across; more than

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Touches as of rosy fingers are on all the clouds, and here and there one hangs upon the sky in an ecstacy, suspended not upon the common air, but on some special atmosphere of light.

the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

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

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading The long attendant shadows have faded from the trees, the roadside pools have lost their brilliant glimmer, and a wakeful whispering hush about the hedgerows and old hawthorns stir all those curious budded watchers, to hear the slow lounging steps of rustic labourers on the road, and wait for the delicate gleam out of the east which shall herald the new-risen moon.

which person or people

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

in the company of; together with

From this reading The sun is dipping low into the burning sea far away, which Criffel’s envious shoulder hides from us; and the last sheaf of rays, like a handful of golden arrows, strikes down into the plain, grazing this same strong shoulder with ineffectual fire as they pass.

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From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Before you is no great range of prospect--the two ash-trees, holding up their united arms, very much as the children of the Brigend, playing under them, hold up _their_ small clasped hands arched over the merry troop who are rushing yonder “through the needle ee”--the hamlet’s meditative houses, standing about the road here and there, in the pleasant vacancy of the slow-falling gloaming--the burn rumbling drowsily under the bridge--the kye coming home along the further way--and farthest off of all, the grave plantation firs, making a dark background for your own pleasant home.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading And light are your home-going steps, May Marion, upon this quiet road, which breathes out fresh evening odours from all its dewy neighbour fields--not slow, but lingering--arrested by a hundred fanciful delays.