Chapter 7 of Rahab is here in full — 438 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of Rahab is here in full — 438 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings. She worked long. At times:--I am hungry. Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head. She could not.
Chapter 7 of Rahab is here in full — 438 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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repair by sewing
From this reading “She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.”
having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
From this reading “Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.”
take in solid food
From this reading “Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.”
to a faint degree or weakly perceived
From this reading “Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.”
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
From this reading “At times:--I am hungry.”
(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks
From this reading “She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.”
plural of “stocking” — close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
From this reading “She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.”
past form of “work” — exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading “She worked long.”
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.
anew
In this reading “She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.”
sporadically and infrequently
In this reading “At times:--I am hungry.”
move out of or depart from
In this reading “Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.”
rise to one's feet
In this reading “She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.”
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.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading At times:--I am hungry.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At times:--I am hungry.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading She could not.
repair by sewing
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
take in solid food
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
to a faint degree or weakly perceived
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
From this reading At times:--I am hungry.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading At times:--I am hungry.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading She worked long.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading She could not.
on one occasion
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Better go out and eat, came to her faintly dizzy head.
(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
plural of “stocking” — close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
a more or less definite period of time now or previously present
From this reading At times:--I am hungry.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading She got up, seated herself once more: and began to darn some stockings.
past form of “work” — exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading She worked long.
Chapter 7 of Rahab by Waldo David Frank holds 438 sentences, grouped into 88 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 7 holds 438 sentences of Rahab, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Rahab by Waldo David Frank exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 438 sentences, grouped into 88 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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