Chapter 8 of Interim is here in full — 783 sentences across 157 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Interim is here in full — 783 sentences across 157 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly. Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house. The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs. Some of them were languid. But none of them suffered.
Chapter 8 of Interim is here in full — 783 sentences across 157 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “armchair” — chair with a support on each side for arms
From this reading “The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.”
shining intensely
From this reading “A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.”
lacking spirit or liveliness
From this reading “Some of them were languid.”
plural of “patient” — a person who requires medical care
From this reading “The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.”
filled with shade
From this reading “The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.”
the rays of the sun
From this reading “Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.”
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading “Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.”
familiar with many parts of the world
From this reading “Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.”
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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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
plural of “armchair” — chair with a support on each side for arms
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
shining intensely
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But none of them suffered.
made or become different in nature or form
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
From this reading Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
occupied or in the control of; often used in combination
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
lacking spirit or liveliness
From this reading Some of them were languid.
not one, and not any
From this reading But none of them suffered.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
plural of “patient” — a person who requires medical care
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.
a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
filled with shade
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Some of them were languid.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
happening unexpectedly
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
past form of “suffer” — undergo or be subjected to
From this reading But none of them suffered.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
the rays of the sun
From this reading Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A day of blazing heat changed the season suddenly.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Some of them were languid.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.
familiar with many parts of the world
From this reading Flat threatening sunlight travelled round the house.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The shadowy sun-blinded flower-scented waiting-room held street-baked patients in its deep armchairs.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Some of them were languid.
Chapter 8 of Interim by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson holds 783 sentences, grouped into 157 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 8 holds 783 sentences of Interim, unabridged, divided into 157 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of Interim by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 783 sentences, grouped into 157 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.
Work through the 157 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 157 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 8 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Interim, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
