Chapter 29 of It Is Never Too Late to Mend is here in full — 130 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 29 of It Is Never Too Late to Mend is here in full — 130 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GEORGE was very homesick. “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?” “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.” “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks. Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
Chapter 29 of It Is Never Too Late to Mend is here in full — 130 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
From this reading ““Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?””
shout loudly and without restraint
From this reading ““Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.””
longing to return home
From this reading “GEORGE was very homesick.”
become quiet or still; fall silent
From this reading ““Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.””
a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
From this reading “Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.””
hard monotonous routine work
From this reading “Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.””
plural of “rock” — a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading ““And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.”
a just detectable amount
From this reading ““And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.”
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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 “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
a proposal for an appropriate course of action
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
From this reading “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
shout loudly and without restraint
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
remove the dust from
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading GEORGE was very homesick.
coins made of gold
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
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From this reading “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
longing to return home
From this reading GEORGE was very homesick.
become quiet or still; fall silent
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
engage in
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
to a great degree or extent
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
not any; not one
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
hard monotonous routine work
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
plural of “pound” — 16 ounces avoirdupois
From this reading “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
plural of “rock” — a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
carry out
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
From this reading “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
up to a particular time
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading “Hush! no! not quite; but too much to bawl about.”
a just detectable amount
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
precisely as stated
From this reading GEORGE was very homesick.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading GEORGE was very homesick.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Here we are plodding for dust, and one good nugget would make us.”
but in spite of that
From this reading “Haven't we got a thousand pounds apiece yet?”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “And we never shall till you take my advice, and trace the gold to its home in the high rocks.
Chapter 29 of It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade holds 130 sentences, grouped into 26 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.
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