Chapter 5 of Original Short Stories — Volume 10 is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Original Short Stories — Volume 10 is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound. The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim. Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother: “Give me your knife.” The brother handed it to him.
Chapter 5 of Original Short Stories — Volume 10 is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “abate” — make less active or intense
From this reading “Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:”
utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
From this reading “The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.”
harmed
From this reading “The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.”
anemic looking from illness or emotion
From this reading “The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.”
past form of “pour” — cause to run
From this reading “They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.”
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
From this reading “They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.”
a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
From this reading “Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:”
twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)
From this reading “The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
past form of “abate” — make less active or intense
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
inflected form of “become” — enter or assume a certain state or condition
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
inflected form of “bring” — take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading “Give me your knife.”
the solid part of the earth's surface
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
having or involving the use of hands
From this reading The brother handed it to him.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The brother handed it to him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
harmed
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
From this reading “Give me your knife.”
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
anemic looking from illness or emotion
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Give me your knife.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
past form of “pour” — cause to run
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
in the near future
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Then, as soon as the smarting had abated, he said to his brother:
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
From this reading They brought some salt water and poured it on the wound.
twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)
From this reading The injured man became livid, ground his teeth and writhed a little, but did not exclaim.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Give me your knife.”
Chapter 5 of Original Short Stories — Volume 10 by Guy de Maupassant holds 202 sentences, grouped into 41 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.
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