Chapter 27 of Eve: A Novel is here in full — 295 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 27 of Eve: A Novel is here in full — 295 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GONE! NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared. Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper. Barbara was with her sister. Eve had recovered, and had confessed everything.
Chapter 27 of Eve: A Novel is here in full — 295 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “confess” — confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
From this reading “Eve had recovered, and had confessed everything.”
(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
From this reading “NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.”
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
From this reading “Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.”
an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
From this reading “NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.”
a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan
From this reading “Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.”
not one and not the other of two
From this reading “NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.”
freed from illness or injury
From this reading “Eve had recovered, and had confessed everything.”
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading “Barbara was with her sister.”
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.
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In this reading “Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.
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From this reading NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
past form of “confess” — confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
From this reading Eve had recovered, and had confessed everything.
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
From this reading NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading Eve had recovered, and had confessed everything.
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
destroyed or killed
From this reading GONE!
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Barbara was with her sister.
an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
From this reading NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.
a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
a form of address for a man
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
not one and not the other of two
From this reading NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.
and not; used after a negative to add a second negative
From this reading NEITHER Jasper, Barbara, nor Eve appeared.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
freed from illness or injury
From this reading Eve had recovered, and had confessed everything.
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading Barbara was with her sister.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Mr. Jordan was excited, and had to be told what had taken place, and this had to be done by Jasper.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Barbara was with her sister.
Chapter 27 of Eve: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould holds 295 sentences, grouped into 59 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 27 holds 295 sentences of Eve: A Novel, unabridged, divided into 59 reading sections.
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