Chapter 1 of Please pass the cream: A comedy is here in full — 569 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Please pass the cream: A comedy is here in full — 569 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_. TIME--_Breakfast_. TIME OF PLAYING--_Twenty Minutes_. COSTUMES. MR.
Chapter 1 of Please pass the cream: A comedy is here in full — 569 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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at or in or to any place
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
From this reading “AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.”
eat an early morning meal
plural of “costume” — the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
From this reading “COSTUMES.”
the act of playing a musical instrument
From this reading “TIME OF PLAYING--_Twenty Minutes_.”
an angry dispute
From this reading “AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.”
possessive form of “smith” — Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)
having or bringing misfortune
From this reading “AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.”
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.
In this reading “TIME OF PLAYING--_Twenty Minutes_.”
In this reading “AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
at or in or to any place
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
eat an early morning meal
From this reading TIME--_Breakfast_.
plural of “costume” — the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
From this reading COSTUMES.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
a written account of what transpired at a meeting
From this reading TIME OF PLAYING--_Twenty Minutes_.
a form of address for a man
From this reading MR.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
the act of playing a musical instrument
From this reading TIME OF PLAYING--_Twenty Minutes_.
an angry dispute
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
possessive form of “smith” — Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading TIME--_Breakfast_.
the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
From this reading TIME OF PLAYING--_Twenty Minutes_.
having or bringing misfortune
From this reading AUTHOR OF _“Their First Quarrel” and “Smith’s Unlucky Day.”_ PLACE--_Anywhere_.
Chapter 1 of Please pass the cream: A comedy by Charles Nevers Holmes holds 569 sentences, grouped into 114 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.
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