Chapter 8 of Life Blood is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Life Blood is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.' " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated. I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling. "But why would he give me these drugs at all? Did he somehow--?"
Chapter 8 of Life Blood is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
past form of “betray” — reveal unintentionally
From this reading “" I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.”
plural of “drug” — a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
From this reading “"But why would he give me these drugs at all?”
plural of “fingertip” — the end (tip) of a finger
From this reading “I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.”
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading “I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.”
free from evil or guilt
From this reading “"I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'”
used as intensifiers
From this reading “" I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.”
exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements
From this reading “I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.”
treated irreverently or sacrilegiously
From this reading “" I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.”
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.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “"I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
(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 "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
in addition
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
the event consisting of the start of something
From this reading " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.
past form of “betray” — reveal unintentionally
From this reading " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Did he somehow--?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
plural of “drug” — a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
From this reading " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.
plural of “fingertip” — the end (tip) of a finger
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
the act of acquiring something
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
free from evil or guilt
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
roused to anger
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means
From this reading Did he somehow--?"
used as intensifiers
From this reading " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements
From this reading I also was getting mad as hell, my fingertips tingling.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.
treated irreverently or sacrilegiously
From this reading " I was beginning to feel terribly betrayed and violated.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "I don't for a minute think it was an 'innocent mistake.'
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading "But why would he give me these drugs at all?
Chapter 8 of Life Blood by Thomas Hoover holds 413 sentences, grouped into 83 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 413 sentences of Life Blood, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of Life Blood by Thomas Hoover exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 413 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 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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