Chapter 9 of Interim is here in full — 466 sentences across 94 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter IX
Chapter 9 of Interim is here in full — 466 sentences across 94 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat. Tapping at the door. "Ah. I thought the young lady was in. I _thought_ so."
Chapter 9 of Interim is here in full — 466 sentences across 94 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/93 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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United States singer (1918-1990)
From this reading “It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.”
a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
From this reading “It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.”
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading “It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.”
a formation of aircraft in flight
From this reading “It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.”
a polite name for any woman
From this reading “I thought the young lady was in.”
the sound of light blow or knock
From this reading “Tapping at the door.”
The passage at the back of the mouth.
From this reading “It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.”
the upper part of anything
From this reading “It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.”
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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a young female
In this reading “I thought the young lady was in.”
In this reading “Tapping at the door.”
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From this reading "Ah.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Tapping at the door.
United States singer (1918-1990)
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading Tapping at the door.
a formation of aircraft in flight
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I thought the young lady was in.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading I thought the young lady was in.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
a polite name for any woman
From this reading I thought the young lady was in.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading I _thought_ so."
the sound of light blow or knock
From this reading Tapping at the door.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I thought the young lady was in.
The passage at the back of the mouth.
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
the upper part of anything
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was Mrs. Bailey coming up the top flight clearing her throat.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading I thought the young lady was in.
Chapter 9 of Interim by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson holds 466 sentences, grouped into 94 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 9 holds 466 sentences of Interim, unabridged, divided into 94 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Interim by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 466 sentences, grouped into 94 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 94 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 94 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 9 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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About 325 minutes of reading across 781 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Interim section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Interim, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
