Chapter 3 of Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
’You and Rebow are cousins?’ ’His father’s sister is my mother. The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands. My mother got nothing. The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
Chapter 3 of Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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feeling or showing anger
From this reading “The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.”
plural of “cousin” — the child of your aunt or uncle
From this reading “’You and Rebow are cousins?’”
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading “The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.”
a social unit living together
From this reading “The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.”
possessive form of “father” — a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
the land on which real estate is located
From this reading “The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.”
-ing form of “marry” — take in marriage
From this reading “The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.”
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading “’His father’s sister is my mother.”
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.
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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ’You and Rebow are cousins?’
feeling or showing anger
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading ’You and Rebow are cousins?’
plural of “cousin” — the child of your aunt or uncle
From this reading ’You and Rebow are cousins?’
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
a social unit living together
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
possessive form of “father” — a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading ’His father’s sister is my mother.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading My mother got nothing.
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading ’His father’s sister is my mother.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading ’His father’s sister is my mother.
the land on which real estate is located
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
-ing form of “marry” — take in marriage
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading ’His father’s sister is my mother.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading ’His father’s sister is my mother.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading My mother got nothing.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’You and Rebow are cousins?’
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading ’His father’s sister is my mother.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
which person or people
From this reading The land and money all went to Elijah’s father who is now dead, and is now in Elijah’s hands.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The family were angry with her for marrying off the land on to the water.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’You and Rebow are cousins?’
Chapter 3 of Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould holds 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 403 sentences of Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
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