Chapter 13 of A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. is here in full — 299 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. is here in full — 299 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A HOWL. The tableaux had to be put off. Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him. The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans. A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
Chapter 13 of A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. is here in full — 299 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading “Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.”
emit long loud cries
From this reading “A HOWL.”
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
From this reading “The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.”
(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
From this reading “The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.”
a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
From this reading “A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.”
attain success or reach a desired goal
From this reading “A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.”
plural of “tableau” — a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
From this reading “The tableaux had to be put off.”
in a way that was not expected
From this reading “Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A HOWL.
(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 young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading The tableaux had to be put off.
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
From this reading A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
From this reading A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
mat together and make felt-like
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The tableaux had to be put off.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
emit long loud cries
From this reading A HOWL.
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
under a moral obligation to do something
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading The tableaux had to be put off.
plural of “plan” — a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading The tableaux had to be put off.
(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
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From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
From this reading A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
attain success or reach a desired goal
From this reading A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
happening without warning or in a short space of time
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
plural of “tableau” — a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
From this reading The tableaux had to be put off.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The tableaux had to be put off.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The tableaux had to be put off.
in a way that was not expected
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading Frank Scherman was obliged to go down to Boston, unexpectedly, to attend to business, and nothing could be done without him.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading The young girls felt all the reaction that comes with the sudden interruption of eager plans.
Chapter 13 of A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney holds 299 sentences, grouped into 60 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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