Chapter 13 of Among the Lindens is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of Among the Lindens is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GETTING DOWN TO REALITIES. “Well, Mother dear, I’m off! Please wish me good luck!” “I wish you patience and wisdom. These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
Chapter 13 of Among the Lindens is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading “These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.””
the act of acquiring something
From this reading “GETTING DOWN TO REALITIES.”
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
From this reading “Please wish me good luck!””
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
From this reading ““I wish you patience and wisdom.”
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading “Please wish me good luck!””
plural of “reality” — all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
From this reading “GETTING DOWN TO REALITIES.”
accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
From this reading ““I wish you patience and wisdom.”
an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value
From this reading “These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.””
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.
an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes
In this reading “Please wish me good luck!””
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “I wish you patience and wisdom.
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
dearly loved
From this reading “Well, Mother dear, I’m off!
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading GETTING DOWN TO REALITIES.
the act of acquiring something
From this reading GETTING DOWN TO REALITIES.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Please wish me good luck!”
the -ing form of “have”
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I wish you patience and wisdom.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Well, Mother dear, I’m off!
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
From this reading Please wish me good luck!”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Please wish me good luck!”
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “Well, Mother dear, I’m off!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “Well, Mother dear, I’m off!
and nothing more
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
From this reading “I wish you patience and wisdom.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading Please wish me good luck!”
plural of “reality” — all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
From this reading GETTING DOWN TO REALITIES.
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading GETTING DOWN TO REALITIES.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Well, Mother dear, I’m off!
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
From this reading “I wish you patience and wisdom.
hope for; have a wish
From this reading Please wish me good luck!”
an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value
From this reading These will bring the only sort of ‘luck’ worth having.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “I wish you patience and wisdom.
Chapter 13 of Among the Lindens by Evelyn Raymond holds 200 sentences, grouped into 40 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 13 holds 200 sentences of Among the Lindens, unabridged, divided into 40 reading sections.
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