Chapter 8 of Mrs Peixada is here in full — 354 sentences across 71 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Mrs Peixada is here in full — 354 sentences across 71 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
PUT yourself in his place. At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered. His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled. His senses were thrown into disorder. It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
Chapter 8 of Mrs Peixada is here in full — 354 sentences across 71 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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people who are frustrated and perplexed
From this reading “His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled.”
perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
From this reading “At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.”
a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
From this reading “It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.”
a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
From this reading “His senses were thrown into disorder.”
plural of “sens” — street names for marijuana
From this reading “His senses were thrown into disorder.”
filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
From this reading “At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.”
the cognitive condition of someone who understands
From this reading “His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled.”
a state of commotion and noise and confusion
From this reading “It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.”
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.
In this reading “His senses were thrown into disorder.”
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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 It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
(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 It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled.
people who are frustrated and perplexed
From this reading His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled.
perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
From this reading His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled.
a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
From this reading His senses were thrown into disorder.
plural of “foot” — the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
destroyed or killed
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading PUT yourself in his place.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading PUT yourself in his place.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading His senses were thrown into disorder.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading PUT yourself in his place.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading PUT yourself in his place.
inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
plural of “sens” — street names for marijuana
From this reading His senses were thrown into disorder.
and nothing more
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled.
caused to fall to the ground
From this reading His senses were thrown into disorder.
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
the cognitive condition of someone who understands
From this reading His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled.
a state of commotion and noise and confusion
From this reading It was as if a cannon had gone off under his feet, all was uproar and smoke and confusion.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading His senses were thrown into disorder.
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading PUT yourself in his place.
Chapter 8 of Mrs Peixada by Henry Harland holds 354 sentences, grouped into 71 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 354 sentences of Mrs Peixada, unabridged, divided into 71 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of Mrs Peixada by Henry Harland exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 354 sentences, grouped into 71 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in Mrs Peixada, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
