Chapter 7 of My Queen — Marion Marlowe's Courage; or, A Brave Girl's is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of My Queen — Marion Marlowe's Courage; or, A Brave Girl's is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE. “An hour and a half! Well, that isn’t so bad. Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.” Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
Chapter 7 of My Queen — Marion Marlowe's Courage; or, A Brave Girl's is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/19 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
From this reading “Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.””
a timepiece that shows the time of day
From this reading “Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.”
the main good female character in a work of fiction
From this reading “MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE.”
English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)
From this reading “Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.”
in an anxiously nervous manner
From this reading “Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.”
a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
From this reading “Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.”
third-person singular of “prove” — be shown or be found to be
From this reading “MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE.”
very small
From this reading “Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.”
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 “Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.””
In this reading “Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.”
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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 MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading “An hour and a half!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “An hour and a half!
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading Well, that isn’t so bad.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
the two together, not just one
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
a timepiece that shows the time of day
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
past form of “glance” — throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
From this reading “An hour and a half!
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
the main good female character in a work of fiction
From this reading MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE.
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE.
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
From this reading “An hour and a half!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Well, that isn’t so bad.
past form of “laugh” — produce laughter
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE.
English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
in an anxiously nervous manner
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
third-person singular of “prove” — be shown or be found to be
From this reading MARION PROVES HERSELF A HEROINE.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Well, that isn’t so bad.
support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Well, that isn’t so bad.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
very small
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Bert must have had time to get a boarding place by this time.”
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Marion Marlowe glanced up at the tiny nickel clock as she spoke, and both she and her sister laughed a little nervously.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Well, that isn’t so bad.
Chapter 7 of My Queen — Marion Marlowe's Courage; or, A Brave Girl's by Lurana Sheldon holds 95 sentences, grouped into 19 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 95 sentences of My Queen — Marion Marlowe's Courage; or, A Brave Girl's, unabridged, divided into 19 reading sections.
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