The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems
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5813 hundred-eyed spy for Jove/Jupiter/Zeus
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5814 messenger of Jove
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5815 opiate rod = sleep-inducing staff
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5816 goddess of dawn [trisyllabic, second accented, “-thea” elided]
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5817 anointed
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5818 prayers
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5819 Adam’s
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5820 efficaciously, powerfully
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5821 will do
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5822 sinned against
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5823 gentle, forgiving
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5824 smash, crush, destroy
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5825 thought of, remembered
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5826 (1) sad, (2) sober
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5827 pleasing, gracious
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5828 to thou
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5829 so high, thus high
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5830 title
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5831 granted, deigned, condescended
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5832 “now the labor is….
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5833 imposed
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5834 tired, laborious
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5835 assented, agreed
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5836 produced on, communicated through
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5837 darkened, obscured
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5838 rosy gleam
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5839 the eagle
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5840 swiftly descended
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5841 circuit
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5842 the lion
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5843 pair
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5844 hart and hind = stag and doe (male and female deer)
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5845 perhaps
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5846 confident
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5847 because of
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5848 liberation
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5849 more bright = brighter
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5850 filled
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5851 this time
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5852 jasper is a highly variegated colored form of quartz
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5853 manifestation, appearance
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5854 bodily
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5855 “that ‘apparition’ was not more glorious when….
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5856 “tents of angels”
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5857 pavilioned = covered with the tents of
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5858 “And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host”—Genesis 32:1–2
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5859 see 2 Kings 6
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5860 the prophet Elisha
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5861 treacherously
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5862 made, commenced
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5863 Michael
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5864 the formation in which the Cherubim had halted
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5865 decide, resolve, end
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5866 lowest rank
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5867 clothes
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5868 [four syllables, first and third accented]
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5869 trust, have confidence in
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5870 lofty, exalted
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5871 luminous, bright
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5872 armor
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5873 loose robe
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5874 more brilliant/vivid
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5875 Thessalian town famous for its bright purple dye
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5876 dyed cloth
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5877 Tyre, Phoenician seaport, now in Lebanon
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5878 goddess of the rainbow
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5879 thread
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5880 helmet
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5881 belt of stars
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5882 see Book 6, lines 320–27, above
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5883 i.e., the archangel Michael
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5884 high rank, dignity
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5885 command
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5886 compensate for
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5887 completely
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5888 greedy, grasping
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5889 cultivate
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5890 held fast, tied up
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5891 disclosed, revealed
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5892 quickly
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5893 withdrawal
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5894 delay, temporary extension of time
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5895 fatal
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5896 stop, visit
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5897 gentle
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5898 arrange
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5899 water you
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5900 compared to
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5901 dark
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5902 accustomed as we are
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5903 over-fond = over-affectionate
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5904 daze, stupor, depression
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5905 carrying out, executing
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5906 secluded place
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5907 persistent
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5908 smothering
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5909 visit often [verb, second syllable accented]
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5910 (1) pleasing, (2) feeling gratitude
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5911 lower
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5912 offspring, descendants
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5913 outermost
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5914 (1) bottom part of God’s robe, (2) outlying boundaries of His kingdom
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5915 species
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5916 bathed with warm lotions, cherished/roused/stirred up
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5917 nourishing
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5918 [four syllables, first and third accented]
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5919 flat, level
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5920 exact, unmistakable
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5921 lofty, exalted
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5922 disputing, struggling, fighting
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5923 alloy
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5924 fatal
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5925
steeped (drugged)
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5926 sight of the future
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5927 [verb]
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5928 open, visible
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5929 “…the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither. In the visions of God brought He me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain….—Ezekiel 40:1–2
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5930 range of vision
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5931 [the full verb is “lay stretched out”]
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5932 view
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5933 Christ
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5934 Adam’s
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5935 Peiping (Beijing), capital of Cathay/China
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5936 khan, emperor
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5937 capital of Temir/Tamerlane’s Tatar empire
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5938 Asian river, flowing from Turkey/Afghanistan to the Aral Sea in Siberia
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5939 Peiping (Beijing)
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5940 Chinese
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5941 a Mogul capital in southern India
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5942 a Mogul capital in northern India
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5943 Malacca
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5944 Hamadan, ancient summer capital of Persian kings
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5945 Isfahan, city in what is now Malaysia
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5946 Byzantium/Istanbul
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5947 Turkestan is a country in central Asia
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5948 see
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5949 name of Abyssinian king
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5950 now Archico, port city on the Red Sea
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5951 Mombasa, in modern Kenya
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5952 Kilwa, in modern Tanzania
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5953 Malindi, in modern Kenya
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5954 port city in what is now Mozambique
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5955 thought to be
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5956 biblical land from which King Solomon obtained gold for the building of the Temple
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5957 river
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5958 in modern Mauritania
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5959 d. 1002, Muslim ruler in Spain and northern Africa
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5960 Fez and Sus are both in Morocco
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5961 modern Tlemcen, in Algeria
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5962 Montezuma, Aztec emperor of Mexico
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5963 capital of the Inca empire; now Cuzco, in modern Peru
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5964 Atahuallpa, Inca ruler [five syllables, first, third, and fifth accented]
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5965 the Spanish: Geryon = monster, native to Cadiz, in Spain, who was killed by Hercules
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5966 herb used for treatment of eye diseases
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5967 medicinal herb
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5968 obliged, forced
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5969 forbidden
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5970 obtain by descent
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5971 ploughland
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5972 under cultivation
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5973 sward, turf
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5974 to the altar
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5975 at once
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5976 Cain
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5977 unselected, a random choice
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5978 such as first “came to hand”
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5979 courteous
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5980 internal organs, entrails
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5981 favorable, gracious
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5982 quick, sudden
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5983 flash/movement
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5984 other’s (Cain’s) = other’s offering
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5985 Abel
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5986 poured out freely
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5987 harm, evil, misfortune
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5988 (1) action, deed, (2) crime
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5989 attested, confirmed
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5990 thickened blood
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5991 (1) natural, (2) of his birthplace
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5992 [here, though usually bisyllabic, trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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5993 “but there are many shapes”
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5994 failure to abstain
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5995 noxious, ill-smelling, offensive
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5996 leper
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5997 violent stretching/straining
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5998 fits
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5999 nasal discharge
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6000 belly
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6001 deranged, lunatic
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6002 languishing, wasting
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6003 wasting, emaciation
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6004 a wasting disease
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6005 bubonic plague
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6006 swelling up of body parts
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6007 hideous
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6008 overcame
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6009 dragged, wrenched
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6010 thrust
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6011 beautiful, graceful
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6012 likeness
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6013 degraded
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6014 animal-like
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6015 due
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6016 transitions, journeys
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6017 natural, congenital
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6018 come, go
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6019 blunted
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6020 go/leave first
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6021 now has (in old age)
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6022 depression, stupor
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6023 finally
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6024 concerned, intending
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6025 released, freed
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6026 oppressive
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6027 duty, responsibility
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6028 rendering up = giving back
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6029 wait for
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6030 [trisyllabic]
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6031 neither
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6032 submit, allow
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6033 “near some of the tents”<
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6034 harmony, accord
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6035 he who
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6036 rapid, flying
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6037 imbued
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6038 accidental
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6039 worked
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6040 fused, cast
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6041 carved
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6042 other
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6043 appearance
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6044 upright, righteous
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6045 final
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6046 company
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6047 frivolous, lewd, unchaste
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6048 songs
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6049 came on = advanced, came forward
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6050 serious, weighty, somber
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6051 negotiate, deal
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6052 Venus
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6053 forerunner
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6054 offered to
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6055 summon
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6056 god of marriage
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6057 before anything else?
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6058 fortunate
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6059 meeting
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6060 outcome
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6061 pieces of music
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6062 seized sympathetically
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6063 confess, acknowledge
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6064 propensity
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6065 foreshadows
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6066 goals, purposes
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6067 proper, fitting
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6068 compliance
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6069 smoothen
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6070 unusual, uncommon
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6071 merry
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6072 perfected
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6073 wag
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6074 snares, tricks
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6075 at large = fully, when God sends down the Flood
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6076 robbed, deprived
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6077 began
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6078 crooked, devious
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6079 spiritless, oppressive
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6080 course
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6081 man’s woe = wo-man
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6082 country, rustic
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6083 assembled
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6084 prowess, fame
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6085 assembling
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6086 choice [adjective]
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6087 oxen
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6088 cattle
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6089 with life = alive
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6090 [bisyllabic]
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