Chapter 2 of Captain Mary Miller is here in full — 452 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Captain Mary Miller is here in full — 452 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
ACT II. _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished. Doors_ R. _and_ L. _Table and cradle_ C.
Chapter 2 of Captain Mary Miller is here in full — 452 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a woman who has recently been married
From this reading “_Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.”
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
a baby bed with sides and rockers
a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America
From this reading “_Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.”
plural of “door” — a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)
From this reading “_Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.”
a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
From this reading “_Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.”
a boat propelled by a steam engine
From this reading “_Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.”
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.
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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 _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
From this reading ACT II.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _and_ L.
a woman who has recently been married
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
From this reading _Table and cradle_ C.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
in a cozy manner
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
a baby bed with sides and rockers
From this reading _Table and cradle_ C.
a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
plural of “door” — a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading Doors_ R.
provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading ACT II.
a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
From this reading _and_ L.
a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air
From this reading Doors_ R.
a boat propelled by a steam engine
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading _Table and cradle_ C.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Cabin of the Creole Bride, a Mississippi steamboat cosily furnished.
Chapter 2 of Captain Mary Miller by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson holds 452 sentences, grouped into 91 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 2 holds 452 sentences of Captain Mary Miller, unabridged, divided into 91 reading sections.
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