Chapter 7 of A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1 is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1 is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
TWO LOVE LETTERS. MR. KINGSTON _to_ MISS FETHERSTONHAUGH. "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole! Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
Chapter 7 of A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1 is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
From this reading “Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?”
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
From this reading “"My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!”
all things; all of a situation
From this reading “Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?”
an opening into or through something
From this reading “"My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “"My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!”
a town on the Hudson River in New York
From this reading “KINGSTON _to_ MISS FETHERSTONHAUGH.”
the literary culture
From this reading “TWO LOVE LETTERS.”
a resort town in east central Florida
From this reading “"My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “"My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
offensive to the mind
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
all things; all of a situation
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading KINGSTON _to_ MISS FETHERSTONHAUGH.
destroyed or killed
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
an opening into or through something
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
a town on the Hudson River in New York
From this reading KINGSTON _to_ MISS FETHERSTONHAUGH.
the literary culture
From this reading TWO LOVE LETTERS.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading TWO LOVE LETTERS.
a resort town in east central Florida
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading KINGSTON _to_ MISS FETHERSTONHAUGH.
a form of address for a man
From this reading MR.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
not any; not one
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "My dearest love, "I had no idea that Melbourne _could_ be such a detestable hole!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading KINGSTON _to_ MISS FETHERSTONHAUGH.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading TWO LOVE LETTERS.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Why have you gone away, and taken all the life and brightness out of everything?
Chapter 7 of A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1 by Ada Cambridge holds 137 sentences, grouped into 28 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 7 holds 137 sentences of A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.
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