Chapter 6 of Streets of Night is here in full — 435 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 6 of Streets of Night is here in full — 435 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"No... Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess." "Hell no, I like to hear you." "Well, I'll beat it this time. Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
Chapter 6 of Streets of Night is here in full — 435 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/87 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
From this reading “"Well, I'll beat it this time.”
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
From this reading “Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....”
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading “Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....”
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."”
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading “"Hell no, I like to hear you."”
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading “"Hell no, I like to hear you."”
come together
From this reading “Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....”
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....”
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.
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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 Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
From this reading "Well, I'll beat it this time.
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading "Hell no, I like to hear you."
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading "Hell no, I like to hear you."
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Well, I'll beat it this time.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "Well, I'll beat it this time.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "Hell no, I like to hear you."
come together
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
to a great degree or extent
From this reading Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."
not any; not one
From this reading "No...
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Got to meet a friend o' mine on the Common....
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading "Well, I'll beat it this time.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading "Well, I'll beat it this time.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Hell no, I like to hear you."
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading Jeeze, I'm talkin' too much, I guess."
(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 "Well, I'll beat it this time.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Hell no, I like to hear you."
Chapter 6 of Streets of Night by John Dos Passos holds 435 sentences, grouped into 87 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 6 holds 435 sentences of Streets of Night, unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Streets of Night by John Dos Passos exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 435 sentences, grouped into 87 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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