Chapter 14 of Tales and Novels — Volume 08 is here in full — 91 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 14 of Tales and Novels — Volume 08 is here in full — 91 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA. Paris. Je suis excedée! mon coeur. Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues! All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
Chapter 14 of Tales and Novels — Volume 08 is here in full — 91 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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possessing life
From this reading “Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!”
(used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation
From this reading “All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.”
military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor
From this reading “Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!”
plural of “foreigner” — a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
From this reading “All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.”
a person authorized to conduct religious worship
From this reading “All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.”
the second day of the week; the first working day
From this reading “Je suis excedée! mon coeur.”
under a moral obligation to do something
From this reading “All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.”
the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
From this reading “All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
later than; following
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
possessing life
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
(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 All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Je suis excedée! mon coeur.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
(used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Je suis excedée! mon coeur.
military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
plural of “foreigner” — a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Je suis excedée! mon coeur.
and nothing more
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
title used for a married Frenchwoman
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
a person authorized to conduct religious worship
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
the second day of the week; the first working day
From this reading Je suis excedée! mon coeur.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
under a moral obligation to do something
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
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.
participate in games or sport
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
deserving or inciting pity
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Alive, and but just alive, after such a day of fatigues!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Je suis excedée! mon coeur.
the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading MADAME DE P---- TO OLIVIA.
the act of dressing and preparing yourself
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
in or at the place that
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
in the company of; together with
From this reading All morning from one minister to another! then home to my toilette! then a great dinner with a number of foreigners, each to be distinguished--then au Feydeau, where I was obliged to go to support poor S----‘s play.
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