Chapter 9 of Tales and Novels — Volume 08 is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of Tales and Novels — Volume 08 is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA. Paris. My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine. I am _maussade_, I _vegetate_. I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
Chapter 9 of Tales and Novels — Volume 08 is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.”
emanating from God
From this reading “My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.”
such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared
From this reading “My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.”
the literary culture
From this reading “My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.”
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading “I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.”
title used for a married Frenchwoman
From this reading “MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.”
the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
From this reading “Paris.”
lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
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completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading I am _maussade_, I _vegetate_.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
the time during which someone's life continues
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
emanating from God
From this reading My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I am _maussade_, I _vegetate_.
such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared
From this reading My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.
the literary culture
From this reading My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
title used for a married Frenchwoman
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I am _maussade_, I _vegetate_.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
From this reading Paris.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
From this reading I am _maussade_, I _vegetate_.
at the time that
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I cannot be said to live the days when I do not hear from you.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading My incomparable Olivia! your letters are absolutely divine.
Chapter 9 of Tales and Novels — Volume 08 by Maria Edgeworth holds 164 sentences, grouped into 33 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 9 holds 164 sentences of Tales and Novels — Volume 08, unabridged, divided into 33 reading sections.
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