Chapter 35 of Martin Chuzzlewit is here in full — 461 sentences across 93 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 35 of Martin Chuzzlewit is here in full — 461 sentences across 93 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman. ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’ ‘You got up to please yourself, and may get down to please yourself. It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you. Be a little quicker.
Chapter 35 of Martin Chuzzlewit is here in full — 461 sentences across 93 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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terminate
From this reading “It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.”
physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
From this reading “It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.”
a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
From this reading “‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.”
a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
From this reading “It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.”
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading “It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.”
discovered or determined by scientific observation
From this reading “‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.”
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading “‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’”
more quickly
From this reading “Be a little quicker.”
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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 Be a little quicker.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ‘You got up to please yourself, and may get down to please yourself.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Be a little quicker.
terminate
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
From this reading ‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.
a quad with a square body
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
set up or found
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading ‘You got up to please yourself, and may get down to please yourself.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Be a little quicker.
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
discovered or determined by scientific observation
From this reading ‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading ‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’
more quickly
From this reading Be a little quicker.
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading ‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.
express a supposition
From this reading ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading ‘You got up to please yourself, and may get down to please yourself.
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading ‘Short of the town, eh!’ observed the coachman.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading ‘You got up to please yourself, and may get down to please yourself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
in or at the place that
From this reading ‘I may get down where I please, I suppose?’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It won’t break our hearts to lose you, and it wouldn’t have broken ‘em if we’d never found you.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ‘You got up to please yourself, and may get down to please yourself.
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading ‘You got up to please yourself, and may get down to please yourself.
Chapter 35 of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens holds 461 sentences, grouped into 93 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 35 holds 461 sentences of Martin Chuzzlewit, unabridged, divided into 93 reading sections.
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