Chapter 2 of Martin Valliant is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Martin Valliant is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes. The man nodded to him. “Good-day, master.” “Give you good-day, Jack Jester. Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
Chapter 2 of Martin Valliant is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
feeling or showing anger
From this reading “Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.”
a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
From this reading ““Give you good-day, Jack Jester.”
inflected form of “nod” — express or signify by nodding
From this reading “The man nodded to him.”
a set of two similar things considered as a unit
From this reading “Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.”
a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
From this reading “Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.””
clean with some chemical process
From this reading “Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.””
fermented juice (of grapes especially)
From this reading “Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.””
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
From this reading “Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.””
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.
take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
In this reading “Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.”
In this reading “Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.””
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
feeling or showing anger
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
opinion or judgment
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading “Give you good-day, Jack Jester.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Good-day, master.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The man nodded to him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
a small worthless amount
From this reading “Give you good-day, Jack Jester.
a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
From this reading “Give you good-day, Jack Jester.
past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading The man nodded to him.
an artist of consummate skill
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
inflected form of “nod” — express or signify by nodding
From this reading The man nodded to him.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
a set of two similar things considered as a unit
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The man nodded to him.
clean with some chemical process
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
fermented juice (of grapes especially)
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
in the company of; together with
From this reading Master Hamden looked at the pair with his red-lidded, angry eyes.
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Give you good-day, Jack Jester.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Go and get some wine in you, and wash the yellow out of your skin.”
Chapter 2 of Martin Valliant by Warwick Deeping holds 411 sentences, grouped into 83 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 2 holds 411 sentences of Martin Valliant, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
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