Chapter 13 of Selina is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of Selina is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Mamma looking across to the door saw her child. "Come in, Selina. You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest. There's no money for Viney. Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
Chapter 13 of Selina is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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from one side of something to the other
From this reading “Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.”
plural of “bill” — a statute in draft before it becomes law
From this reading “Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.”
no longer active or practicing
From this reading “Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.”
informal terms for a mother
From this reading “Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.”
possessive form of “month” — one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
From this reading “Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.”
not move; be in a resting position
From this reading “You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.”
United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
From this reading “Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.”
stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading “Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.”
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 “Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.”
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.
from one side of something to the other
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
for the reason that
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
plural of “bill” — a statute in draft before it becomes law
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
a young person of either sex
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading "Come in, Selina.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading There's no money for Viney.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "Come in, Selina.
no longer active or practicing
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
immediately past
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
informal terms for a mother
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
From this reading There's no money for Viney.
possessive form of “month” — one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
not any; not one
From this reading There's no money for Viney.
above and across; more than
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
not move; be in a resting position
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
cut with a saw
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Come in, Selina.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There's no money for Viney.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Mamma looking across to the door saw her child.
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There's no money for Viney.
stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading Last month's bills all lapsed over because Robert told me I'd have to wait.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You've heard as much, and you may as well hear the rest.
Chapter 13 of Selina by George Madden Martin holds 411 sentences, grouped into 83 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 411 sentences of Selina, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 13 of Selina by George Madden Martin exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 411 sentences, grouped into 83 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.
Work through the 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 440 minutes of reading across 1058 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Selina section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Selina, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
