Chapter XVI of For whose sake? A sequel to "Why did he wed her?", “The Squire’s Arrival,” is here in full — 255 sentences across 51 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XVI
Chapter XVI of For whose sake? A sequel to "Why did he wed her?", “The Squire’s Arrival,” is here in full — 255 sentences across 51 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone. “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last! Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night. Such a time as I had getting her quiet! But where have you two been?
Chapter XVI of For whose sake? A sequel to "Why did he wed her?", “The Squire’s Arrival,” is here in full — 255 sentences across 51 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.
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading ““Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!”
enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space
From this reading “Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.”
dwell on with satisfaction
From this reading “Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.”
drive or propel with the foot
From this reading “Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.”
the sound of laughing
From this reading “Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.”
reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
From this reading “Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.”
characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity
From this reading “Such a time as I had getting her quiet!”
a female sorcerer or magician
From this reading “Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.”
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 “Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.”
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 Such a time as I had getting her quiet!
(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 Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
Having no one else present.
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Such a time as I had getting her quiet!
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading But where have you two been?
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But where have you two been?
enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
dwell on with satisfaction
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
set up or found
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
the act of acquiring something
From this reading Such a time as I had getting her quiet!
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Such a time as I had getting her quiet!
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
drive or propel with the foot
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
immediately past
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
the sound of laughing
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity
From this reading Such a time as I had getting her quiet!
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Such a time as I had getting her quiet!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading Such a time as I had getting her quiet!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading But where have you two been?
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Well, I have put the baby to sleep at last!
in or at the place that
From this reading Hetty drew her husband back into the cozy parlor, where they found Jennie waiting alone.
a female sorcerer or magician
From this reading Little witch! she wanted to laugh and crow and kick all night.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading But where have you two been?
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