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11
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From this reading 11.
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
aedile
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
Amphitheatre
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
AndconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
arena
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
aroundprepositionUS /ərˈaʊnd/
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
atoms
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
away
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
beyondprepositionUS /bɪˈɑːnd/
on the far side of; further than
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
boldly
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
busy
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
collecting
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
command
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
company
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
curtains
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
Dea
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
far
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
Flavia's
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
folds
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
footnounUS /foot/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
ghostly
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
gigantic
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
guard
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
honey-coloured
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
illumined
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
impalpable
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
ISAIAH
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From this reading "Watchman, what of the night?"--ISAIAH XXI.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
light
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
line
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
living
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
moon
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
myriads
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
narrow
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
night
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From this reading "Watchman, what of the night?"--ISAIAH XXI.
noise
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "Watchman, what of the night?"--ISAIAH XXI.
Palatine
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
peeped
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
ranged
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
rays
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
room
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
samenounUS /same/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
silver
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
spanned
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
stirring
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
streak
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Watchman, what of the night?"--ISAIAH XXI.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
town
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
tumult
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
up
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
vast
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
Watchman
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From this reading "Watchman, what of the night?"--ISAIAH XXI.
way
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
weird
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From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "Watchman, what of the night?"--ISAIAH XXI.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
whipping
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From this reading It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver.
window
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From this reading A narrow streak of those same ghostly rays found its way through the folds of the curtains which spanned the window of Dea Flavia's room.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading And far away beyond the noise and tumult which ranged around the foot of the Palatine, the honey-coloured moon illumined with her weird and ghostly light the vast arena of the gigantic Amphitheatre, where a company of the town guard, under the command of an aedile, were busy collecting the dead.
XXI
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From this reading "Watchman, what of the night?"--ISAIAH XXI.
