Chapter 4 of Niobe, All Smiles is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Niobe, All Smiles is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
CORN. Oh! I beg your pardon--your husband is dead? (_stooping to speak to her_) NIO. More years than I can count.
Chapter 4 of Niobe, All Smiles is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 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.
call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading “I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?”
tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
From this reading “CORN.”
determine the number or amount of
From this reading “More years than I can count.”
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading “I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?”
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading “I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?”
accept an excuse for
From this reading “I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?”
express in speech
From this reading “(_stooping to speak to her_) NIO.”
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
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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call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading More years than I can count.
tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
From this reading CORN.
determine the number or amount of
From this reading More years than I can count.
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading (_stooping to speak to her_) NIO.
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading More years than I can count.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading (_stooping to speak to her_) NIO.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh!
accept an excuse for
From this reading I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?
express in speech
From this reading (_stooping to speak to her_) NIO.
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
From this reading (_stooping to speak to her_) NIO.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading More years than I can count.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading (_stooping to speak to her_) NIO.
a late time of life
From this reading More years than I can count.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I beg your pardon--your husband is dead?
Chapter 4 of Niobe, All Smiles by Harry Paulton holds 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 4 holds 419 sentences of Niobe, All Smiles, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Niobe, All Smiles by Harry Paulton exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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.
Work through the 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 206 minutes of reading across 497 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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