Chapter 40 of Haworth's is here in full — 126 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 40 of Haworth's is here in full — 126 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"IT WILL BE TO YOU." They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table. The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact. The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away. Nothing had been moved, nothing taken.
Chapter 40 of Haworth's is here in full — 126 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
fall or come down violently
From this reading “The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.”
lacking in light; not bright or harsh
From this reading “They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.”
the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
From this reading “The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.”
constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
From this reading “The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.”
filled with a great quantity
From this reading “They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.”
past form of “lock” — fasten with a lock
From this reading “They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.”
a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
From this reading “They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.”
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
From this reading “The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.”
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 “The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.”
In this reading “They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.”
In this reading “They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
(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 The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "IT WILL BE TO YOU."
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
the act of burning something
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
fall or come down violently
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
the time during which someone's life continues
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
lacking in light; not bright or harsh
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
make void or empty of contents
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
set up or found
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
a movable barrier in a fence or wall
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
destroyed or killed
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "IT WILL BE TO YOU."
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
of comparatively little physical weight or density
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
filled with a great quantity
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
past form of “lock” — fasten with a lock
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
From this reading Nothing had been moved, nothing taken.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Nothing had been moved, nothing taken.
marked by the reception of pay
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
plural of “servant” — a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading Nothing had been moved, nothing taken.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "IT WILL BE TO YOU."
a formal word for “on”
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
From this reading The servants had been paid their wages a few days before the crash and had gone away.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading "IT WILL BE TO YOU."
in the company of; together with
From this reading The great house stood empty with all its grandeur intact.
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading They found the key lying within the locked gate, and the dim light burning and the pistol loaded upon the table.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "IT WILL BE TO YOU."
Chapter 40 of Haworth's by Frances Hodgson Burnett holds 126 sentences, grouped into 26 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 40 holds 126 sentences of Haworth's, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.
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