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CHAPTER XIX
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However, I wander from the raft. We made the port of Necharsteinach in good season, and went to the hotel and ordered a trout1 dinner, the same to be ready against our return from a two-hour pedestrian excursion to the village and castle of Dilsberg, a mile distant, on the other side of the river. I do not mean that we proposed to be two hours making two miles—no, we meant to employ most of the time in inspecting Dilsberg.
For Dilsberg is a quaint2 place. It is most quaintly3 and picturesquely5 situated6, too. Imagine the beautiful river before you; then a few rods of brilliant green sward on its opposite shore; then a sudden hill—no preparatory gently rising slopes, but a sort of instantaneous hill—a hill two hundred and fifty or three hundred feet high, as round as a bowl, with the same taper7 upward that an inverted8 bowl has, and with about the same relation of height to diameter that distinguishes a bowl of good honest depth—a hill which is thickly clothed with green bushes—a comely9, shapely hill, rising abruptly10 out of the dead level of the surrounding green plains, visible from a great distance down the bends of the river, and with just exactly room on the top of its head for its steepled and turreted11 and roof-clustered cap of architecture, which same is tightly jammed and compacted within the perfectly12 round
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vestige
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spires
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eminence
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plunged
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alley
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snug
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persistently
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diligent
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lugging
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deteriorates
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| 恶化,变坏( deteriorate的第三人称单数 ) | |
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crooked
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strapping
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dwellings
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limpid
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cisterns
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crumbling
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wavy
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ridges
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subterranean
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descend
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recess
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| 包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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hearty
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munitions
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outlet
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foliage
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fortress
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chamber
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knight
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afflict
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privately
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contrive
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superstitious
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betrothed
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mischievous
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accomplished
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shuddering
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farce
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repentance
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leisurely
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looming
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slashing
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