Chapter 8 of Love Stories is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Love Stories is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi. WARD A. [Signed] D.L.S. P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air? She hesitated over that for some time.
Chapter 8 of Love Stories is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
From this reading “P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?”
fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
From this reading “Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.”
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
From this reading “Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.”
past form of “hesitate” — pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
From this reading “She hesitated over that for some time.”
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading “Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.”
a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
From this reading “P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?”
having a handwritten signature
From this reading “[Signed] D.L.S.”
a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
From this reading “WARD A.”
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 WARD A.
a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
From this reading Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
From this reading Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
From this reading [Signed] D.L.S.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.
past form of “hesitate” — pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
From this reading She hesitated over that for some time.
a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
From this reading [Signed] D.L.S.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
above and across; more than
From this reading She hesitated over that for some time.
a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading [Signed] D.L.S.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She hesitated over that for some time.
having a handwritten signature
From this reading [Signed] D.L.S.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading She hesitated over that for some time.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading She hesitated over that for some time.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading She hesitated over that for some time.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
From this reading WARD A.
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading Baked apple, without milk, for Mimi.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading P.S.--Can you come up on the roof for a little air?
Chapter 8 of Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 400 sentences of Love Stories, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Love Stories, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
