Chapter 10 of His Masterpiece is here in full — 423 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of His Masterpiece is here in full — 423 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
‘Ah, it’s you! We are quite in the country, aren’t we? We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks. Come in, come in! Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
Chapter 10 of His Masterpiece is here in full — 423 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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terminate
From this reading “We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.”
a cruelly rapacious person
From this reading “Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?”
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading “We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.”
a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading “We are quite in the country, aren’t we?”
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading “Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?”
light in a transparent protective case
From this reading “We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.”
plural of “neck” — the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
From this reading “We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.”
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
From this reading “Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?”
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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 We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
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From this reading ‘Ah, it’s you!
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading We are quite in the country, aren’t we?
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From this reading We are quite in the country, aren’t we?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
terminate
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
a cruelly rapacious person
From this reading Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come in, come in!
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading We are quite in the country, aren’t we?
the act of departing
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading We are quite in the country, aren’t we?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘Ah, it’s you!
light in a transparent protective case
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
plural of “neck” — the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
From this reading Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading We are quite in the country, aren’t we?
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading We are quite in the country, aren’t we?
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading We are going to set up a lantern, so that our company may not break their necks.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We are quite in the country, aren’t we?
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ‘Ah, it’s you!
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Will you hold your noise, you brute of a Bertrand?
Chapter 10 of His Masterpiece by Émile Zola 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 10 holds 423 sentences of His Masterpiece, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of His Masterpiece by Émile Zola 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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