Chapter 12 of Robert Kimberly is here in full — 195 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Robert Kimberly is here in full — 195 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
They found a lively party at the Nelsons’. Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble. Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip. Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room. She stopped.
Chapter 12 of Robert Kimberly is here in full — 195 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/39 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
From this reading “Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.”
a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean)
From this reading “Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.”
Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
From this reading “Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.”
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
From this reading “Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.”
a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
From this reading “Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.”
United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
From this reading “Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.”
the act of driving an automobile
From this reading “Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.”
marked by a ready flow of speech
From this reading “Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.”
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 “Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.”
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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 They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
past form of “enter” — to come or go into
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
set up or found
From this reading They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean)
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
full of life and energy
From this reading They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
the act of driving an automobile
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
an organization to gain political power
From this reading They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She stopped.
the act of singing vocal music
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
a short musical composition with words
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
not in physical motion
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
(of a nose) blocked
From this reading She stopped.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
in or at that place or location
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They found a lively party at the Nelsons’.
having thick lips
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
marked by a ready flow of speech
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
at the time that
From this reading Dora, still quite hoarse, was singing a music-hall song when the MacBirneys entered the room.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Guyot was there, with Lambert, thick-lipped and voluble.
Damaged or thinned by continuous use.
From this reading Dora Morgan with Doane and Cready Hamilton had come, worn and bedraggled, from a New England motoring trip.
Chapter 12 of Robert Kimberly by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman holds 195 sentences, grouped into 39 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 12 holds 195 sentences of Robert Kimberly, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Robert Kimberly by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 195 sentences, grouped into 39 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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