Chapter 21 of The Brothers Karamazov is here in full — 746 sentences across 150 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 21 of The Brothers Karamazov is here in full — 746 sentences across 150 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
In The Dark Where was he running? “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s? She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now. The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.”
Chapter 21 of The Brothers Karamazov is here in full — 746 sentences across 150 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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rid of obstructions
From this reading “She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.”
The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth.
From this reading “The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.””
clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
From this reading “The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.””
apart from; not including
From this reading ““Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?”
a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
From this reading “The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.””
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading “She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.”
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading “In The Dark Where was he running?”
successive (without a break)
From this reading “She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.”
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in or near a particular place or position
From this reading “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?
rid of obstructions
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?
absence of light or illumination
From this reading In The Dark Where was he running?
The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth.
From this reading The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.”
clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
From this reading The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.”
apart from; not including
From this reading “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading In The Dark Where was he running?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In The Dark Where was he running?
a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
From this reading The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.”
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading In The Dark Where was he running?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch’s?
successive (without a break)
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading In The Dark Where was he running?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading She must have run straight to him from Samsonov’s, that was clear now.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading In The Dark Where was he running?
in or at the place that
From this reading In The Dark Where was he running?
including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
From this reading The whole intrigue, the whole deceit was evident.”
Chapter 21 of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky holds 746 sentences, grouped into 150 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.
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