Chapter 27 of List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of Incident is here in full — 448 sentences across 90 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 27 of List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of Incident is here in full — 448 sentences across 90 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
BOL’S RUSE. “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin. “You do well to consent. May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!” She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
Chapter 27 of List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of Incident is here in full — 448 sentences across 90 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the first light of day
From this reading ““What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.”
permission to do something
From this reading ““You do well to consent.”
deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
From this reading “May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!””
plural of “demon” — an evil supernatural being
From this reading ““What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.”
feelings of ardent love
From this reading “She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.”
a sacred place of pilgrimage
From this reading “May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!””
a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
From this reading “BOL’S RUSE.”
a person who has never had sex
From this reading “May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!””
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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follow with the eyes or the mind
In this reading “May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!””
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
the first light of day
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BOL’S RUSE.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
put or send forth
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
permission to do something
From this reading “You do well to consent.
placed crosswise
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
plural of “demon” — an evil supernatural being
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
feelings of ardent love
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “You do well to consent.
past form of “exclaim” — utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
opinion or judgment
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
a sacred place of pilgrimage
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
a polite name for any woman
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
above and across; more than
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
From this reading BOL’S RUSE.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “You do well to consent.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
a person who has never had sex
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
look attentively
From this reading May the Holy Virgin watch over us and deliver us!”
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “You do well to consent.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
at the time that
From this reading “What demons!” exclaimed the lady Aurora when Friend had left the cabin.
in the company of; together with
From this reading She cast up her eyes and crossed herself with great devotion.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You do well to consent.
Chapter 27 of List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of Incident by William Clark Russell holds 448 sentences, grouped into 90 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 27 holds 448 sentences of List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of Incident, unabridged, divided into 90 reading sections.
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