Chapter 2 of Orlóff and His Wife is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of Orlóff and His Wife is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Well, they're fools! Would that be profitable? Just consider: they are curing them! How is a body to understand that? They bury them!
Chapter 2 of Orlóff and His Wife is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
From this reading “How is a body to understand that?”
cover from sight
From this reading “They bury them!”
deem to be
From this reading “Just consider: they are curing them!”
the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
From this reading “Just consider: they are curing them!”
plural of “fool” — a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading “"Well, they're fools!”
yielding material gain or profit
From this reading “Would that be profitable?”
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
From this reading “How is a body to understand that?”
(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, they're fools!”
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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 How is a body to understand that?
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Just consider: they are curing them!
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Would that be profitable?
the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
From this reading How is a body to understand that?
cover from sight
From this reading They bury them!
deem to be
From this reading Just consider: they are curing them!
the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
From this reading Just consider: they are curing them!
plural of “fool” — a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading "Well, they're fools!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How is a body to understand that?
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading How is a body to understand that?
and nothing more
From this reading Just consider: they are curing them!
yielding material gain or profit
From this reading Would that be profitable?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Would that be profitable?
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Just consider: they are curing them!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Just consider: they are curing them!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Well, they're fools!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading How is a body to understand that?
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
From this reading How is a body to understand that?
(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, they're fools!
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Would that be profitable?
Chapter 2 of Orlóff and His Wife by Maksim Gorky holds 389 sentences, grouped into 78 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 389 sentences of Orlóff and His Wife, unabridged, divided into 78 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Orlóff and His Wife by Maksim Gorky exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 389 sentences, grouped into 78 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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