Chapter 14 of The Billiard Room Mystery is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 14 of The Billiard Room Mystery is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MARY CONSULTS MR. BATHURST There was a tap at the door. “May I come in?” It was Mary Considine’s voice. I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
Chapter 14 of The Billiard Room Mystery is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
third-person singular of “consult” — get or ask advice from
From this reading “MARY CONSULTS MR.”
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading “BATHURST There was a tap at the door.”
a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading “I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.”
the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
From this reading “MARY CONSULTS MR.”
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading “I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.”
past form of “remember” — recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
From this reading “I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.”
cut a female screw thread with a tap
From this reading “BATHURST There was a tap at the door.”
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading “It was Mary Considine’s voice.”
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 “BATHURST There was a tap at the door.”
In this reading “BATHURST There was a tap at the door.”
In this reading “I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.”
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 BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “May I come in?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was Mary Considine’s voice.
third-person singular of “consult” — get or ask advice from
From this reading MARY CONSULTS MR.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “May I come in?”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “May I come in?”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was Mary Considine’s voice.
the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
From this reading MARY CONSULTS MR.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading “May I come in?”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
a form of address for a man
From this reading MARY CONSULTS MR.
past form of “remember” — recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
cut a female screw thread with a tap
From this reading BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
in or at that place or location
From this reading BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading It was Mary Considine’s voice.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading BATHURST There was a tap at the door.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading I remembered what she had asked me in the garden that morning.
Chapter 14 of The Billiard Room Mystery by Brian Flynn holds 288 sentences, grouped into 58 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 14 holds 288 sentences of The Billiard Room Mystery, unabridged, divided into 58 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 14 of The Billiard Room Mystery by Brian Flynn exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 288 sentences, grouped into 58 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.
Work through the 58 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 58 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 14 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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