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againstprepositionUS /əˈɡenst/
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
Altenfjord
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From this reading Night on the Altenfjord,--the long, long, changeless night of winter.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
appeal
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
binds
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
branches
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
bringing
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
changeless
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From this reading Night on the Altenfjord,--the long, long, changeless night of winter.
crests
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
darkness
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
day
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
driving
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
fetters
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
frozen
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
hail
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
Healed
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
Joyless
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
landscape
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
lay
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
leaflessadjectiveUS /ˈliːfləs/
having no leaves, usually because of the season
From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
light
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
like
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
living
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Night on the Altenfjord,--the long, long, changeless night of winter.
mountains
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
night
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
north
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Night on the Altenfjord,--the long, long, changeless night of winter.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
pellets
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
pine-forests
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
rose
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
sculptured
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
shallmodal verbUS /ʃæl/
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
sharp
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
sky
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
sleep
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
snow-covered
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
songless
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
sound
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
stinging
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
stone
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
SWINBURNE
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From this reading SWINBURNE.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
TheypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/
in spite of the fact that
From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
tore
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
unboundadjectiveUS /ʌnˈbaʊnd/
Released from physical or magical bonds; free and unrestricted.
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
WepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
white
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
whole
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From this reading Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.
whompronounUS /huːm/
the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
wild
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From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
windnounUS /wind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
winter
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From this reading Night on the Altenfjord,--the long, long, changeless night of winter.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The sharp snow-covered crests of the mountains rose in white appeal against the darkness of the sky,--the wild north wind tore through the leafless branches of the pine-forests, bringing with it driving pellets of stinging hail.
wound
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From this reading "They have the night, who had, like us, the day-- We, whom day binds, shall have the night as they-- We, from the fetters of the light unbound, Healed of our wound of living, shall sleep sound!"
