Chapter 4 of Hay fever is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 4 of Hay fever is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask. SANDY: Judith. JUDITH (_bravely_): There, now. Away with melancholy. This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
Chapter 4 of Hay fever is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.”
in a courageous manner
creating or arousing excitement
From this reading “This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.”
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading “This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.”
Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
From this reading “JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.”
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
From this reading “Away with melancholy.”
of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
From this reading “SANDY: Judith.”
extremely
From this reading “This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.”
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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(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 This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Away with melancholy.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
in a courageous manner
From this reading JUDITH (_bravely_): There, now.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
creating or arousing excitement
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
From this reading Away with melancholy.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading JUDITH (_bravely_): There, now.
of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
From this reading SANDY: Judith.
not in physical motion
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
in or at that place or location
From this reading JUDITH (_bravely_): There, now.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
extremely
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
precisely as stated
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading This is all tremendously exciting, and we must all be very happy.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Away with melancholy.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading JUDITH: You can still call me Judith, can’t you?—it’s not much to ask.
Chapter 4 of Hay fever by Noël Coward holds 417 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 4 holds 417 sentences of Hay fever, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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