Chapter 4 of Love in a Muddle is here in full — 489 sentences across 98 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 4 of Love in a Muddle is here in full — 489 sentences across 98 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
I nodded. "And they will telegraph news of him here?" "Yes." He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey. "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
Chapter 4 of Love in a Muddle is here in full — 489 sentences across 98 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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give a benediction to
From this reading “"God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"”
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading “"God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"”
an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
From this reading “He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.”
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
From this reading “He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.”
held up in the air
From this reading “He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.”
information about recent and important events
From this reading “"And they will telegraph news of him here?"”
inflected form of “nod” — express or signify by nodding
From this reading “I nodded.”
apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)
From this reading “"And they will telegraph news of him here?"”
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 “He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
give a benediction to
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I nodded.
held up in the air
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
information about recent and important events
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
inflected form of “nod” — express or signify by nodding
From this reading I nodded.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading He lifted me out of the dog-cart at the door of Cromer Court; his face looked grey.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading "And they will telegraph news of him here?"
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "God bless you," he said, "for coming back to us!"
Chapter 4 of Love in a Muddle by Christine Jope-Slade holds 489 sentences, grouped into 98 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 4 holds 489 sentences of Love in a Muddle, unabridged, divided into 98 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Love in a Muddle by Christine Jope-Slade exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 489 sentences, grouped into 98 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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