Complete Short Works of George Meredith

by George Meredith · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 9 · 7,458 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: English fiction — 19th century

Words worth knowing: vociferate · repression · cottager · professionally · flighty · drowsily · interject · unsuspicious

Vine-hills, among the hottest sun-bibbers of the Rheingau, glistened in the roll of Gottlieb’s possessions; corn-acres below Cologne; basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of the Romans to the genius and enterprise of the first of German traders.

He could have bought up every hawking crag, owner and all, from Hatto’s Tower to Rheineck.

Lore-ley, combing her yellow locks against the night-cloud, beheld old Gottlieb’s rafts endlessly stealing on the moonlight through the iron pass she peoples above St. Goar.

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