Chapter 2 of Dream Tales and Prose Poems is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Dream Tales and Prose Poems is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Why, she was nothing to him? was she? ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him. ‘I must find out! But from whom? From the princess?
Chapter 2 of Dream Tales and Prose Poems is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 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.
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading “‘I must find out!”
not one thing; not anything
From this reading “Why, she was nothing to him? was she?”
by chance
From this reading “‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.”
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading “From the princess?”
the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
From this reading “‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.”
happening without warning or in a short space of time
From this reading “‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.”
consistent with fact or reality; not false
From this reading “‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.”
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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 ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
later than; following
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
(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 ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading ‘I must find out!
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading But from whom?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Why, she was nothing to him? was she?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading ‘I must find out!
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From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading ‘I must find out!
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Why, she was nothing to him? was she?
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading ‘I must find out!
by chance
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading From the princess?
the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Why, she was nothing to him? was she?
happening without warning or in a short space of time
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Why, she was nothing to him? was she?
consistent with fact or reality; not false
From this reading ‘But, perhaps, it’s not true after all,’ the thought came as a sudden relief to him.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Why, she was nothing to him? was she?
the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading But from whom?
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why, she was nothing to him? was she?
Chapter 2 of Dream Tales and Prose Poems by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev holds 418 sentences, grouped into 84 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 418 sentences of Dream Tales and Prose Poems, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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