Chapter 6 of The Abandoned Room is here in full — 708 sentences across 142 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Abandoned Room is here in full — 708 sentences across 142 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind. The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness. Instinctively the six men moved closer together. The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm: "What the devil was that?
Chapter 6 of The Abandoned Room is here in full — 708 sentences across 142 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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possessive form of “coroner” — a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
From this reading “The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm:”
as a matter of instinct
From this reading “Instinctively the six men moved closer together.”
prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
From this reading “The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.”
express grief verbally
From this reading “THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.”
expressing sorrow
From this reading “THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.”
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
From this reading “The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.”
a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
From this reading “THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.”
a dense growth of bushes
From this reading “The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.”
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 The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
fear resulting from the awareness of danger
From this reading The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm:
adopted in order to deceive
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
(comparative of “near” or “close”) within a shorter distance
From this reading Instinctively the six men moved closer together.
possessive form of “coroner” — a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
From this reading The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm:
inflected form of “creep” — move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
demanding attention
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
From this reading "What the devil was that?
communicated in words
From this reading The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm:
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm:
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
as a matter of instinct
From this reading Instinctively the six men moved closer together.
prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
express grief verbally
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
the force of workers available
From this reading Instinctively the six men moved closer together.
the light of the Moon
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
expressing sorrow
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
From this reading Instinctively the six men moved closer together.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
not divisible by two
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
worried and uneasy
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
From this reading Instinctively the six men moved closer together.
a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "What the devil was that?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
a dense growth of bushes
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
Having little thickness or extent.
From this reading The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm:
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading Instinctively the six men moved closer together.
plural of “tone” — the quality of a person's voice
From this reading The coroner's thin tones expressed his alarm:
dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "What the devil was that?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "What the devil was that?
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The thicket from which it had seemed to issue assumed in the pallid moonlight a new unfriendliness.
which person or people
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE The odd, mournful crying lost itself in the restless lament of the wind.
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