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Din
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"The rooks are making an awful din today," said James. |
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| A continuous, loud, and clamourous sound. |
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Raucous
The tall spinneyof horse-chestnut trees, raucous with the calling of the rooks and rubbish-roofed with the clutter of their sprawling nests, was one of their familiar places.[image] |
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Copse
He stood on a snow-mounded hill, with a copse of tall trees capping it far beyond, and two black birds drifting tiny to and fro above the trees.
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| A thicket of small trees or shrubs. |
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Wizened
The long grey hair was the same, and so were the clothes and the wizened, crafty face.
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| Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from illness and age. |
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Consternation
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Will spun round, staring in consternation at the hearth; there was no hint of smoke,or water, or of any way in which the fire could possibly have died. |
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| Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay. |
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Strident
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While the old lady sat motionless in her chair,and he and Merriman stood again beside the hearth, the great hall was filled suddenly with a hideous mixture of moaning and mumbling ansstrident wailing, like the caged voices of an evil zoo. |
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| A shrill, harsh, and grating sound. |
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Dell
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"You will be creeping into this dell to look at the snow-drops that grow everywhere between the trees. |
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| A valley between hills; secluded. |
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Inscrutable
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With the white hair hidden he was a dark figure suddenly, tall and inscrutable. |
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Definition
| Difficult or impossible to understand, comprehend, fathom, interperate; mysterious. |
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Spinney
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The tall spinneey of horse chest-nut trees, raucous with the calling of the rooks and rubbish-roofed with the clutter of their sprawling nests, was one of their familiar places. |
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| A small wood used as nests for game birds with and undergrowth of bushes and shrubs. |
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Lilting
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It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music played by delicate instrument that he could not identify, with one ripling, bell-like phrase running hrough it in a gold thread of delight. |
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| A light happy tune or song. |
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