Chapter 3 of Fancy free is here in full — 423 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Fancy free is here in full — 423 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly. Porthos ordered more wine. “To your plan,” cried D’Artagnan. “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.” “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
Chapter 3 of Fancy free is here in full — 423 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
From this reading “Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.”
past form of “caress” — touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner
From this reading “Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.”
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
From this reading ““We must be there at the rise of the curtain.”
an old word for “before”
From this reading ““The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.””
plural of “open” — a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
From this reading ““The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.””
plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of
From this reading ““The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.””
plural of “wane” — a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
From this reading ““The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.””
in a hearty manner
From this reading “Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.”
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 “Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.”
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(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 Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
past form of “caress” — touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
inflected form of “cry” — utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading “To your plan,” cried D’Artagnan.
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “To your plan,” cried D’Artagnan.
plural of “door” — a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
an old word for “before”
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
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 “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading Porthos ordered more wine.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
plural of “open” — a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule
From this reading Porthos ordered more wine.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
have the will and intention to carry out some action
From this reading “To your plan,” cried D’Artagnan.
plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Porthos ordered more wine.
move upward
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
in or at that place or location
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “To your plan,” cried D’Artagnan.
plural of “wane” — a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
From this reading “The night wanes and the playhouse opens its doors ere long.”
in a hearty manner
From this reading Athos bowed, and all four friends caressed each other warmly.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “We must be there at the rise of the curtain.
fermented juice (of grapes especially)
From this reading Porthos ordered more wine.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “To your plan,” cried D’Artagnan.
Chapter 3 of Fancy free by Eden Phillpotts holds 423 sentences, grouped into 85 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 3 holds 423 sentences of Fancy free, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Fancy free by Eden Phillpotts exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 423 sentences, grouped into 85 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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