Chapter 11 of A Red Wallflower is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XI
Chapter 11 of A Red Wallflower is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_LETTERS_. And so life seemed for many days to the child. She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit. Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be. The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
Chapter 11 of A Red Wallflower 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 “She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.”
lacking in liveliness or animation
From this reading “Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be.”
the literary culture
plural of “occupation” — the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
From this reading “The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.”
plural of “pleasure” — a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
From this reading “The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.”
get or find back; recover the use of
From this reading “She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.”
move or cause to move back and forth
From this reading “She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.”
To perceive flavor through the mouth.
From this reading “The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.”
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(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 The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be.
the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
a young person of either sex
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
the time during which someone's life continues
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
lacking in liveliness or animation
From this reading Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be.
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
From this reading Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be.
the experiencing of affective and emotional states
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
destroyed or killed
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
From this reading Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Dull, dull, everything in earth and heaven seemed to be.
the literary culture
From this reading _LETTERS_.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
and not; used after a negative to add a second negative
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
plural of “occupation” — the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
plural of “pleasure” — a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
get or find back; recover the use of
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
have flavor; taste of something
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
move or cause to move back and forth
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
the vital principle or animating force within living things
From this reading She could not shake off the feeling, nor regain any brightness of spirit.
To perceive flavor through the mouth.
From this reading The taste and savour had gone out of all her pleasures and occupations.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And so life seemed for many days to the child.
Chapter 11 of A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner 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.
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