Chapter 2 of Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act is here in full — 248 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act is here in full — 248 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch? Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter. HATCH: That's all right, Harry. That's good stuff. Pick up that bag, Reddy.
Chapter 2 of Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act is here in full — 248 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a flexible container with a single opening
From this reading “Pick up that bag, Reddy.”
a female human offspring
From this reading “Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter.”
annoy continually or chronically
From this reading “HATCH: That's all right, Harry.”
emerge from the eggs
From this reading “HATCH: That's all right, Harry.”
by chance
From this reading “Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter.”
select carefully from a group
From this reading “Pick up that bag, Reddy.”
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
From this reading “That's good stuff.”
look attentively
From this reading “REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?”
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From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
(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 HATCH: That's all right, Harry.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
a flexible container with a single opening
From this reading Pick up that bag, Reddy.
a female human offspring
From this reading Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter.
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading That's good stuff.
annoy continually or chronically
From this reading HATCH: That's all right, Harry.
emerge from the eggs
From this reading HATCH: That's all right, Harry.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
by chance
From this reading Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter.
select carefully from a group
From this reading Pick up that bag, Reddy.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
precisely, exactly
From this reading HATCH: That's all right, Harry.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Maybe she's ANOTHER dead daughter.
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
From this reading That's good stuff.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Pick up that bag, Reddy.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading HATCH: That's all right, Harry.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Pick up that bag, Reddy.
look attentively
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading REDDY: Ah, why don't you give her back HER watch?
Chapter 2 of Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act by Richard Harding Davis holds 248 sentences, grouped into 50 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 248 sentences of Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act, unabridged, divided into 50 reading sections.
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