Chapter 6 of Golden Fleece is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Golden Fleece is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected. “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep. But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers. She’s meek and a stay-at-home. She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
Chapter 6 of Golden Fleece is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome
From this reading ““She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.”
take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
From this reading “She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.”
cause to move by striking
From this reading “She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.”
humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
From this reading “She’s meek and a stay-at-home.”
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
From this reading ““There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.”
easily agitated
From this reading “But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.”
(especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back
From this reading ““There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.”
(mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other
From this reading “She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.”
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.
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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 But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.
a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She’s meek and a stay-at-home.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
divisible by two
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading “There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.
cause to move by striking
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
From this reading She’s meek and a stay-at-home.
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
From this reading “There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.
easily agitated
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
(especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back
From this reading “There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She’s meek and a stay-at-home.
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading “There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.
a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel
From this reading She’s meek and a stay-at-home.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “There’s some mystery about her,” he reflected.
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
(mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
close enough to be walked to
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “She acts as if she were walking in her sleep.
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading She’d not bother me a bit, and she and Evelyn would hit it off like twins.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading But if I could get her, I’d do even better than if I’d taken a wife from among those nervous New Yorkers.
Chapter 6 of Golden Fleece by David Graham Phillips holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 6 holds 416 sentences of Golden Fleece, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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