Chapter 35 of Lantern Marsh is here in full — 136 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 35 of Lantern Marsh is here in full — 136 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GYPSIES’ FIRE. Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney. It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon. Her impetuous nature! His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
Chapter 35 of Lantern Marsh is here in full — 136 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “dawn” — become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
From this reading “Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.”
gleam or glow intermittently
From this reading “Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.”
plural of “gypsy” — a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
From this reading “GYPSIES’ FIRE.”
characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
From this reading “Her impetuous nature!”
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
From this reading “His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.”
a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss
From this reading “His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.”
past form of “misinterpret” — interpret falsely
From this reading “His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.”
the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time
From this reading “His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.”
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In this reading “It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.”
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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 Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
the part of the day between noon and evening
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
(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 It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
past form of “dawn” — become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
From this reading Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
start firing a weapon
From this reading GYPSIES’ FIRE.
gleam or glow intermittently
From this reading Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
plural of “gypsy” — a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
From this reading GYPSIES’ FIRE.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Her impetuous nature!
prevent from being seen or discovered
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
From this reading Her impetuous nature!
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
past form of “misinterpret” — interpret falsely
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
From this reading Her impetuous nature!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
have ownership or possession of
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
From this reading Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time
From this reading His own tardiness and his own misinterpreted duty to Maxwell Lee.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Like a flash the situation dawned on Mauney.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
tested and proved useful or correct
From this reading It dawned so flashingly that he tried to hide from it all afternoon.
Chapter 35 of Lantern Marsh by Beaumont Sandfield Cornell holds 136 sentences, grouped into 28 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 35 holds 136 sentences of Lantern Marsh, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 35 of Lantern Marsh by Beaumont Sandfield Cornell exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 136 sentences, grouped into 28 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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