Chapter 3 of Married is here in full — 399 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Married is here in full — 399 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Game? With cranberries and cucumbers!” The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious. “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?” Fortunately she said “we.”
Chapter 3 of Married is here in full — 399 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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be able to spare or give up
From this reading ““Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?””
plural of “cranberry” — any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
From this reading “With cranberries and cucumbers!””
plural of “cucumber” — a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
From this reading “With cranberries and cucumbers!””
a special loved one
From this reading ““Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?””
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading “The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.”
by good fortune
From this reading “Fortunately she said “we.””
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
From this reading ““Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?””
excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
From this reading “The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.”
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 The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
be able to spare or give up
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading With cranberries and cucumbers!”
a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
plural of “cranberry” — any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
From this reading With cranberries and cucumbers!”
plural of “cucumber” — a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
From this reading With cranberries and cucumbers!”
a special loved one
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
by good fortune
From this reading Fortunately she said “we.”
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading “Game?
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Fortunately she said “we.”
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
a shaky motion
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “Lewis, darling,” she put a trembling little hand on his arm, “can we afford it?”
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
in the company of; together with
From this reading With cranberries and cucumbers!”
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading The young wife was a little startled, but it was really delicious.
Chapter 3 of Married by August Strindberg holds 399 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 3 holds 399 sentences of Married, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
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