Chapter 14 of Plays : First Series is here in full — 391 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 14 of Plays : First Series is here in full — 391 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
[The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.] Don't you take it so to heart, my dear! [A silence.] COLONEL. [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
Chapter 14 of Plays : First Series is here in full — 391 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
From this reading “[The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]”
past form of “believe” — accept as true; take to be true
From this reading “[Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.”
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading “[The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]”
psychological suffering
From this reading “[The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]”
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
From this reading “[The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]”
popular aquarium fish
From this reading “[Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.”
a change of position that does not entail a change of location
From this reading “[The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]”
the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
From this reading “[Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.”
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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 COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
past form of “believe” — accept as true; take to be true
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
a young person of either sex
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
dearly loved
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
psychological suffering
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
plural of “make” — a recognizable kind
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
popular aquarium fish
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
a change of position that does not entail a change of location
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading [A silence.]
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
carry out
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading [The COLONEL makes a movement of distress, and Miss BEECH goes to him.]
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading [Shaking his head.] I couldn't have believed Molly would forget that child.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Don't you take it so to heart, my dear!
Chapter 14 of Plays : First Series by John Galsworthy holds 391 sentences, grouped into 79 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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