Chapter 12 of Dusty answer is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Dusty answer is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
She shut her eyes and turned her face from him. There was a long silence. ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end. ‘I’m not.’ ‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’
Chapter 12 of Dusty answer is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/79 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
travel across or pass over
From this reading “‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.”
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading “‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.”
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading “She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.”
lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
From this reading “‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’”
move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
From this reading “She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.”
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading “There was a long silence.”
express in words
From this reading “‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’”
moved around an axis or center
From this reading “She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.”
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 “There was a long silence.”
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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 There was a long silence.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
travel across or pass over
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
opinion or judgment
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading ‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘I’m not.’
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
From this reading ‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading There was a long silence.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading ‘I’m not.’
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading There was a long silence.
express in words
From this reading ‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There was a long silence.
moved around an axis or center
From this reading She shut her eyes and turned her face from him.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was a long silence.
in the company of; together with
From this reading ‘Don’t be cross with me,’ he said in the end.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ‘Didn’t I tell you I was inadequate?’
Chapter 12 of Dusty answer by Rosamond Lehmann holds 398 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 12 holds 398 sentences of Dusty answer, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Dusty answer by Rosamond Lehmann exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 398 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.
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