Chapter 7 of Miss Cayley's Adventures is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of Miss Cayley's Adventures is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
We had come to an end. A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front. Above lay loose boulders. Below was a shrub-hung precipice. The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
Chapter 7 of Miss Cayley's Adventures is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
plural of “boulder” — a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
From this reading “Above lay loose boulders.”
reinforce with a buttress
From this reading “A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.”
-ing form of “circle” — travel around something
From this reading “The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.”
a steep rugged rock or cliff
From this reading “A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.”
a very steep cliff
From this reading “Below was a shrub-hung precipice.”
extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
From this reading “A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.”
so extremely intense as to evoke screams
From this reading “The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.”
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.”
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.
at or in the front
In this reading “A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.”
In this reading “The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.”
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 before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
higher than, or over, something
From this reading Above lay loose boulders.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading We had come to an end.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
at or to a lower level than something
From this reading Below was a shrub-hung precipice.
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
plural of “boulder” — a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
From this reading Above lay loose boulders.
reinforce with a buttress
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
-ing form of “circle” — travel around something
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading We had come to an end.
a steep rugged rock or cliff
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading We had come to an end.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
the side that is forward or prominent
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading We had come to an end.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Above lay loose boulders.
not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
From this reading Above lay loose boulders.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
a very steep cliff
From this reading Below was a shrub-hung precipice.
extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
so extremely intense as to evoke screams
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
From this reading A great projecting buttress of crag rose sheer in front.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Below was a shrub-hung precipice.
not in physical motion
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We had come to an end.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Below was a shrub-hung precipice.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We had come to an end.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The birds we had seen from home were still circling and screaming.
Chapter 7 of Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen holds 424 sentences, grouped into 85 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 7 holds 424 sentences of Miss Cayley's Adventures, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
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