Chapter 37 of Dangerous Days is here in full — 441 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 37 of Dangerous Days is here in full — 441 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life. She sent him a little note of farewell: “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote. “We ought to be very happy. So few have as much.
Chapter 37 of Dangerous Days is here in full — 441 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
From this reading ““We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.”
an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
From this reading “She sent him a little note of farewell:”
plural of “month” — one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
From this reading ““We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.”
a brief written record
From this reading “She sent him a little note of farewell:”
used with “to” to say what is right or advisable
From this reading ““We ought to be very happy.”
with low volume
From this reading “Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.”
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
From this reading ““We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.”
inflected form of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading ““We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.”
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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 She sent him a little note of farewell:
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading So few have as much.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “We ought to be very happy.
a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
From this reading “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
From this reading She sent him a little note of farewell:
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading So few have as much.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading “We ought to be very happy.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She sent him a little note of farewell:
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading She sent him a little note of farewell:
plural of “month” — one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
From this reading “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading So few have as much.
a brief written record
From this reading She sent him a little note of farewell:
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
used with “to” to say what is right or advisable
From this reading “We ought to be very happy.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
with low volume
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
From this reading She sent him a little note of farewell:
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She sent him a little note of farewell:
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So few have as much.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
From this reading “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “We ought to be very happy.
precisely as stated
From this reading Very quietly Audrey had taken herself out of Clayton's life.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
From this reading “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.
inflected form of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading “We have had ten very wonderful months, Clay,” she wrote.
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