Great Expectations Ch. 1

Gregory M. (United States of America)
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  1. alder tree
    north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant
    I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
  2. tombstone
    a stone that is used to mark a grave
    My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

    I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister -- Mrs Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.
  3. nettle
    plant having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation
    At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; a...
  4. wain
    large open farm wagon
    It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man.
  5. ravenously
    in the manner of someone who is very hungry
    When the church came to itself -- for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet -- when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling, while he ate the bread ravenously.
  6. marsh
    low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation
    Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
  7. eluding
    the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
    As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.
  8. intermix
    combine into one
    The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
Created on Wed Jul 21 22:33:27 EDT 2010

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