Chapter 20 of Diana of Kara-Kara is here in full — 453 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 20 of Diana of Kara-Kara is here in full — 453 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Bobbie!” The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched. Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow. “Hullo, dear! I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
Chapter 20 of Diana of Kara-Kara is here in full — 453 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
at or toward the back of something
From this reading “Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.”
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
From this reading “Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.”
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading “I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?””
fully extended especially in length
From this reading “The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.”
A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
From this reading “Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.”
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading “Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.”
in the direction of
From this reading “The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.”
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading “I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?””
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 “Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.”
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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 Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
at or toward the back of something
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Bobbie!”
the two together, not just one
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
dearly loved
From this reading “Hullo, dear!
a young female
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
an expression of greeting
From this reading “Hullo, dear!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
fully extended especially in length
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
cut with a saw
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
in the near future
From this reading I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading Behind her in the hall he saw a strange shadow.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
in the direction of
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading The girl came toward him with both hands outstretched.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I came as soon as you wanted me, I hope?”
Chapter 20 of Diana of Kara-Kara by Edgar Wallace holds 453 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 20 holds 453 sentences of Diana of Kara-Kara, unabridged, divided into 91 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 20 of Diana of Kara-Kara by Edgar Wallace exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 453 sentences, grouped into 91 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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