Chapter 13 of Right Ho, Jeeves is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of Right Ho, Jeeves is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice: “Faces?” “Yes, madam.” “Through the skylight?” “Yes, madam.”
Chapter 13 of Right Ho, Jeeves is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
From this reading “Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:”
any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia
From this reading “Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:”
plural of “face” — the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading ““Faces?””
muscular and heavily built
From this reading “Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:”
less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading “Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:”
a woman of refinement
From this reading ““Yes, madam.””
a window in a roof to admit daylight
From this reading ““Through the skylight?””
made steady or constant
From this reading “Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:”
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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 Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
plural of “face” — the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading “Faces?”
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
muscular and heavily built
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
a woman of refinement
From this reading “Yes, madam.”
a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
a window in a roof to admit daylight
From this reading “Through the skylight?”
support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
made steady or constant
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading “Through the skylight?”
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice:
an affirmative
From this reading “Yes, madam.”
Chapter 13 of Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 13 holds 417 sentences of Right Ho, Jeeves, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 13 of Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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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