Chapter 6 of The Admiral's Daughter is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Admiral's Daughter is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
’Then everything must still be well. Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise. And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed. Come, I will play your nurse and undress you. ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
Chapter 6 of The Admiral's Daughter is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
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a special loved one
From this reading “And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.”
be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
From this reading “And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.”
a person who carries a message
From this reading “Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.”
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
From this reading “Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.”
in other respects or ways
From this reading “Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.”
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
From this reading “Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.”
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading “’Tis the last time—for some days.’”
get undressed
From this reading “Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.”
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.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.”
In this reading “And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.”
In this reading “’Tis the last time—for some days.’”
In this reading “’Tis the last time—for some days.’”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading ’Then everything must still be well.
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.
a special loved one
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
the time during which someone's life continues
From this reading ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
all things; all of a situation
From this reading ’Then everything must still be well.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
the act of departing
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
immediately past
From this reading ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
a person who carries a message
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading ’Then everything must still be well.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
From this reading Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
in other respects or ways
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
participate in games or sport
From this reading Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.
100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
not in physical motion
From this reading ’Then everything must still be well.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading ’Then everything must still be well.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading ’Tis the last time—for some days.’
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And now, my darling, I insist on your going to bed.
get undressed
From this reading Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.
(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 ’Then everything must still be well.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
set down in writing in any of various ways
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Come, I will play your nurse and undress you.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Your father would have written and sent a special messenger, otherwise.
Chapter 6 of The Admiral's Daughter by Margaret Stuart Lane holds 418 sentences, grouped into 84 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 418 sentences of The Admiral's Daughter, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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