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A small wood with undergrowth
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The tall spinney of 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.
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A bad omen; unfavorable; threatning
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the clouds there seemed to be growing darker, massing in ominous grey mounds with a yellowish tinge. |
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The act if looking at of thinking about something
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He shouted in fury, then recovered himself, and sat down looking in a cold contemplation that was more terrible than rage. |
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A thicket of small trees, bushes, shrubs, etc.
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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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Conqure, defeat, overcome
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"If you can accomplish that, you will have brought back to life one of the three great forces that the Old Ones must turn soon towards vanquishing the powers of the Dark, which are reaching out steadily and stealthily over all this world." |
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Faint unsteady light
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"And it is just as well, young Will, that you have only a glimmering of an idea of the gift that is in you, for until the first ordeals of learning are over, you will be in great danger." |
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serious and immediate danger
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Just as you knew there would be great peril of that. |
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Impossible to understand or interpert
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With the white hair hidden he was a dark figure suddenly, tall and inscrutable. |
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Dried up; withard
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The long grey hair was the same, and so were the clothes and the wizened, crafty face.
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Paralyzing terror
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Will spun round, staring in consternation at the hearth. |
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