Chapter 324 of Les Misérables is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 324 of Les Misérables is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object?
Chapter 324 of Les Misérables is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “cast” — the actors in a play
From this reading “Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.”
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading “How, and in what manner?”
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
From this reading “And this without metaphor.”
plural of “million” — the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
From this reading “Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.”
a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
From this reading “With what object?”
the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
From this reading “Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.”
being five more than twenty
From this reading “Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.”
a reference book that is published regularly once every year
From this reading “Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.”
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 “Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And this without metaphor.
plural of “cast” — the actors in a play
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading Day and night.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How, and in what manner?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading How, and in what manner?
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading How, and in what manner?
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
From this reading And this without metaphor.
plural of “million” — the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Day and night.
a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
From this reading With what object?
the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading And this without metaphor.
being five more than twenty
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading How, and in what manner?
in the company of; together with
From this reading With what object?
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading And this without metaphor.
a reference book that is published regularly once every year
From this reading Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water.
Chapter 324 of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo holds 83 sentences, grouped into 17 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 324 holds 83 sentences of Les Misérables, unabridged, divided into 17 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 324 of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 83 sentences, grouped into 17 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.
Work through the 17 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 17 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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