Ellery

[ el-uh-ree ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Ellery used the drill to poke holes all the way through the glacier at some points.

For small ones like those near Ellery, those techniques don’t really work.

Ellery could carry it up the mountain to the glacier on her back.

Ellery, a true New Englander, stared at him in astonishment, as one who heard sacred things lightly spoken of.

Yet as Sunday after Sunday the two young men strode up together, she grew to accept Ellery.

Now Ellery and Madeline and most of the others lived along certain conventional lines, with certain fixed interests and habits.

The stream thundered and one does not ask a friend to shout out his minor moods, so Ellery forbore to question.

A white thing lay on the path before them, and Dick stooped to pick it up, while Ellery looked on with mild curiosity.

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