Chapter 3 of Bob Bowen Comes to Town is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Bob Bowen Comes to Town is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile. “Maybe. Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you. Hope we meet again.” “Same here.”
Chapter 3 of Bob Bowen Comes to Town is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
From this reading “Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.”
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading “Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.”
plural of “lip” — either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
From this reading “Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.”
by chance
From this reading ““Maybe.”
come together
From this reading “Hope we meet again.””
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading “Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.”
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading “Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.”
change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
From this reading “Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.”
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 “Hope we meet again.””
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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 Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
anew
From this reading Hope we meet again.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
From this reading Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading “Same here.”
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading Hope we meet again.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
plural of “lip” — either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
From this reading Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
by chance
From this reading “Maybe.
come together
From this reading Hope we meet again.”
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
Identical; not different.
From this reading “Same here.”
change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
From this reading Bowen rose, his lips curving in a smile.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Hope we meet again.”
(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, I’m glad to ’ve met you.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Well, I’m glad to ’ve met you.
Chapter 3 of Bob Bowen Comes to Town by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 3 holds 416 sentences of Bob Bowen Comes to Town, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Bob Bowen Comes to Town by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 416 sentences, grouped into 84 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
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