alcedine (comparative more alcedine, superlative most alcedine)
Of or relating to a kingfisher or kingfishers.
A vivid green-blue-purple-black.

CHAPTER TWO Going to School When I woke up, a doctor was carrying me to my own bedroom. It was good to be back in my room, which had a warm fire and candlelight. I was also happy to see Dr. Lloyd, who was a very kind man. He was the doctor that helpe

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CHAPTER FIVE Mr. Brocklehursts Visit It was hard to get used to the rules at Lowood, and to the extremely cold, hard winter. In January, February and March there was deep snow, but we still had to go outside for one hour every day. We had no warm boo

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN I Return to Gateshead The next day I got a letter from Gateshead. There was much trouble and sadness there. My cousin, John Reed, had spent all his money and most of his mothers. he had been in prison most of his life. He owed many p

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CHAPTER NINE Mr. Rochesters Secrets After a little time at Thornfield, I knew that Mr. Rochester and I were becoming friends. He was beginning to trust and like me. Many times, when we walked in the garden or sat by a fire in the evening, he told me

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CHAPTER EIGHT Life with Mr. Rochester Now that Mr. Rochester had returned , Thornfield hall was very busy. Many people came to visit his and talk about business. Adele was too excited to study. That evening we had tea with Mr. Rochester. Of course, t

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PART THREE---- A YOUNG WOMAN AT THORNFIELD CHAPTER SEVEN Mr. Rochester The house where I was to work was called Thornfield. It was a large house in the country. After a days journey, I arrived at the house. Mrs. Fairfax, who came out to meet me, was

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CHAPTER SIX Life at Lowood Continues As spring came and the days grew warmer, life at Lowood no longer seemed so hard. We enjoyed walking and playing outside, under a blue sky. But the warm weather also brought sickness to our area. By May, more than

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CHAPTER FOUR My New Friend The next morning we got up in the dark. In all the rooms it was as cold as ice. This time the porridge was not burned, but I still felt hungry because there was not enough. The girl I had spoken with yesterday was older tha

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Happiness Ferndean Manor was a pretty old house in the forest. As I came near, the door of the house opened and Edward Rochester came out! As I watched him I felt both happy and sad. He looked as strong as before and his hair was

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN The New Mrs. Rochester And so I began to travel back to Thornfield hall. While I was at Gateshead, Mrs. Fairfax had written to me. She told me that all the ladies and gentlemen had left, and that Mr. Rochester had gone to London to pr

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE St. Johns Secret I had twenty village girls to teach. Some of them spoke in such a strong, country speech that I could barely understand them. Their words did not seem like the English language. Only three of the girls could read,

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CHAPTER TWENTY Getting to Know the Rivers Family I stayed one month at Moor House. In that time, I came to love the little house, and the wild, beautiful fields around it, just like Diana and Mary did. We read books together and talked about them. Di

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Mr. Rochesters Story Sometime in the afternoon I woke up from a long sleep. I felt weak when I stood up, because I had not eaten anything all day. When I opened my bedroom door, I saw Mr. Rochester. He was sitting in a chair outside

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO I Am No longer Poor After St. John left me, it began to snow. It snowed all night and the next day. In the evening, I was sitting by the fire and had just begun to read when I heard a knock at the door. St. John came inside the hou

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE My Past Returns I promised St. John that I would teach at the Morton school until Christmas. Then he could find another teacher. On the last day of school. St. John came to see me as I said goodbye to my students. I was sad to se

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adopt-a-book program
airzol coffee
Al 'Azīzīyah
All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
angel-faces
as welcome as a storm
atherospermine
axial cell
basic oxygen furnace
bear something out
bidigraph
biradical
bold italic
brachysomophis longipinnis
branderne
breast bud
C.difficile
cefuroximase
cement proportioning worm conveyor
certain suggestions
chemical element
chieftaincies
Claud
cleg
data transport services
day's date
deductible clause
didakai
Ellerstadt
Emory University
encipter
field event
Flagellaria
format address
frame check sequence
galumphing
gear pump with pressurized side plates
geolocalization
Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson
high-countries
hip lock
hydrosorbic acid
hyperferremia
in vitro fertilization
information collection and processing
insulat
jacket ga(u)ge
jejunoileal
Jordanian monetary unit
ko shan
Legal System of Ship arrestFrance
linear context-free language
lochia sanguinolenta
macedonia (makedhonia)
maneuverable spacecraft
mast-cell sarcoma
MDEBP
metal substrate
micro-stimulation
molestable
mollison
monumentalities
morphophysiological system
multi-fx
nonoxynols
oestreichers
one-months
ooot
orthobunyavirus akabane virus (livestock pathogen)
ossa naviculare manus
palsify
paradigmata
percolation probability
phillis wheatleys
planer table
plant seedling method
radial operation of a part of a net-work
reactive varhour meter
reflectionally
relaxed static stability control
resoundingly
roentgenoscopy
rolelessness
roll change mechanism
Ruhs
sardan
site model theory
soka
spatial monopoly
submultiple of si units
telephone cable paper
thermoregulatory response
thoriated cathode
TL-CFC
tridecylene diacid
true bearing
vacuum floating melting
Vanda pumila
very toxic
Webenheim
white linear scar
wicksteeds