Chapter 8 of May Iverson's Career is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of May Iverson's Career is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed. "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw! And the pluck of her! George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal." Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
Chapter 8 of May Iverson's Career is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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uttered without voice
From this reading “"Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.”
United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)
From this reading “George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."”
intense or sharp
From this reading “"She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!”
supporting yourself on your knees
From this reading “Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.”
young sheep
From this reading “"Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.”
an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
From this reading “George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."”
pull or pull out sharply
From this reading “And the pluck of her!”
a shaky motion
From this reading “Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.”
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.
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In this reading “"She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!”
In this reading “Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.”
In this reading “Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.”
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 George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And the pluck of her!
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
uttered without voice
From this reading "Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.
United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)
From this reading George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
a young person of either sex
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
a special loved one
From this reading "Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.
at any time
From this reading "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!
intense or sharp
From this reading "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
the experiencing of affective and emotional states
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading And the pluck of her!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!
supporting yourself on your knees
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
young sheep
From this reading "Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.
an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
From this reading George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
used to form the superlative
From this reading "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading And the pluck of her!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading "Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.
used with “to” to say what is right or advisable
From this reading George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
above and across; more than
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
pull or pull out sharply
From this reading And the pluck of her!
a shaky motion
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
cut with a saw
From this reading "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!
plural of “say” — the chance to speak
From this reading George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!
not in physical motion
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Oh, the darling, the lamb!" she breathed.
a special situation
From this reading "She's the most exquisite thing I ever saw!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading George says she ought to have a Carnegie medal."
in the company of; together with
From this reading Still kneeling, she bent over the child, her beautiful face quivering with feeling.
Chapter 8 of May Iverson's Career by Elizabeth Garver Jordan holds 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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 427 sentences of May Iverson's Career, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of May Iverson's Career by Elizabeth Garver Jordan exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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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