Chapter 4 of Dread-Flame of M'Tonak is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Dread-Flame of M'Tonak is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Still he waited. He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden. He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all. It seemed most unlikely, at this hour! It had been a crazy idea to begin with.
Chapter 4 of Dread-Flame of M'Tonak is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
From this reading “He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.”
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading “It had been a crazy idea to begin with.”
an alert and refreshed state
From this reading “He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.”
not accessible to view
From this reading “He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.”
provided with artificial light
From this reading “He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.”
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading “He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.”
not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
From this reading “It seemed most unlikely, at this hour!”
any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
From this reading “He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.”
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 “It seemed most unlikely, at this hour!”
In this reading “He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
later than; following
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading It seemed most unlikely, at this hour!
the past participle of “be”
From this reading It had been a crazy idea to begin with.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading It had been a crazy idea to begin with.
taking care or paying attention
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading It had been a crazy idea to begin with.
an alert and refreshed state
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It had been a crazy idea to begin with.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Still he waited.
not accessible to view
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
From this reading It seemed most unlikely, at this hour!
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading It had been a crazy idea to begin with.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
conformity or harmony
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
provided with artificial light
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
used to form the superlative
From this reading It seemed most unlikely, at this hour!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading It seemed most unlikely, at this hour!
not in physical motion
From this reading Still he waited.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading He lit a cigarette, keeping the glow of it carefully hidden.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
From this reading It seemed most unlikely, at this hour!
any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
past form of “wait” — stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading Still he waited.
in the company of; together with
From this reading It had been a crazy idea to begin with.
the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading He began to wonder if the Princess would venture into this place after all.
Chapter 4 of Dread-Flame of M'Tonak by Henry Hasse holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 4 holds 400 sentences of Dread-Flame of M'Tonak, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Dread-Flame of M'Tonak by Henry Hasse exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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