Chapter 8 of Six Plays is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Six Plays is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THOMAS. Where’s the little maid got to? George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home. MILES. Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.
Chapter 8 of Six Plays is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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propose a payment
From this reading “George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.”
a person who operates a farm
From this reading “Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.”
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
From this reading “George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.”
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading “George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.”
a female domestic
From this reading “Where’s the little maid got to?”
United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)
From this reading “THOMAS.”
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading “Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.”
accept gladly
From this reading “George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
propose a payment
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
a person who operates a farm
From this reading Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Where’s the little maid got to?
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Where’s the little maid got to?
a female domestic
From this reading Where’s the little maid got to?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
From this reading MILES.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
not in physical motion
From this reading Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Where’s the little maid got to?
United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)
From this reading THOMAS.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Where’s the little maid got to?
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading Miss is still at her toilet, farmer.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
accept gladly
From this reading George and me be come up from the field on purpose for to bid her welcome home.
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From this reading Where’s the little maid got to?
Chapter 8 of Six Plays by Florence Henrietta Fisher, Lady Darwin holds 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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 8 holds 401 sentences of Six Plays, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of Six Plays by Florence Henrietta Fisher, Lady Darwin exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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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