Chapter 7 of Dust is here in full — 188 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Dust is here in full — 188 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Rose could scarcely believe her ears. Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her. Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely? Oh, if only her boy could have lived! Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
Chapter 7 of Dust is here in full — 188 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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marked by strong resentment or cynicism
From this reading “Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.”
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (“whole” is often used informally for “wholly”)
From this reading “Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?”
overfilled or compacted or concentrated
From this reading “Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.”
characterized by great determination
From this reading “Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.”
incapable of being tolerated or endured
From this reading “Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.”
French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)
From this reading “Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?”
Recollections of past events.
From this reading “Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.”
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading “Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.”
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 Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
accept as true; take to be true
From this reading Rose could scarcely believe her ears.
marked by strong resentment or cynicism
From this reading Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.
a youthful male person
From this reading Oh, if only her boy could have lived!
made or become different in nature or form
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (“whole” is often used informally for “wholly”)
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Rose could scarcely believe her ears.
overfilled or compacted or concentrated
From this reading Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.
characterized by great determination
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
plural of “ear” — the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
From this reading Rose could scarcely believe her ears.
a young female
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Oh, if only her boy could have lived!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Rose could scarcely believe her ears.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading Oh, if only her boy could have lived!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
incapable of being tolerated or endured
From this reading Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
past form of “live” — be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading Oh, if only her boy could have lived!
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
Recollections of past events.
From this reading Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh, if only her boy could have lived!
and nothing more
From this reading Oh, if only her boy could have lived!
by chance
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading Rose could scarcely believe her ears.
only a very short time before
From this reading Rose could scarcely believe her ears.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Had the little girl really changed Martin so completely?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Perhaps she had made a great mistake in being so determined not to have another.
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Memories, bitter, intolerable, crowded upon her.
Chapter 7 of Dust by E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius holds 188 sentences, grouped into 38 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 7 holds 188 sentences of Dust, unabridged, divided into 38 reading sections.
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