Chapter 3 of Our Square and the People in It is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Our Square and the People in It is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Running the steam-roller, outside.” The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth. “Ah! That explains much. But not all.
Chapter 3 of Our Square and the People in It is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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third-person singular of “explain” — make plain and comprehensible
From this reading “That explains much.”
a young female
From this reading “The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.”
impossible to repress or control
From this reading “The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.”
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
From this reading “The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.”
changed from a solid to a liquid state
From this reading “The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.”
great merriment
From this reading “The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.”
relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
From this reading ““Running the steam-roller, outside.””
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading ““Running the steam-roller, outside.””
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From this reading “Ah!
(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 But not all.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But not all.
third-person singular of “explain” — make plain and comprehensible
From this reading That explains much.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
a young female
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
impossible to repress or control
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
changed from a solid to a liquid state
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
great merriment
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading That explains much.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But not all.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The face of the girl melted into lovely and irrepressible mirth.
relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
From this reading “Running the steam-roller, outside.”
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading “Running the steam-roller, outside.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Running the steam-roller, outside.”
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That explains much.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Running the steam-roller, outside.”
Chapter 3 of Our Square and the People in It by Samuel Hopkins Adams holds 429 sentences, grouped into 86 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 3 holds 429 sentences of Our Square and the People in It, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Our Square and the People in It by Samuel Hopkins Adams exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 429 sentences, grouped into 86 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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