Chapter 15 of The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood is here in full — 316 sentences across 64 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood is here in full — 316 sentences across 64 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow! To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow! Farewell! I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry. THE CIGAR.
Chapter 15 of The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood is here in full — 316 sentences across 64 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a roll of tobacco for smoking
From this reading “THE CIGAR.”
an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
From this reading “Farewell!”
the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
From this reading “To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!”
be excessively hot
From this reading “I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.”
plural of “hash” — chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
From this reading “To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!”
the next day
From this reading “To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!”
meat from a mature domestic sheep
From this reading “To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!”
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
From this reading “Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!”
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.
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In this reading “To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!”
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From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
a roll of tobacco for smoking
From this reading THE CIGAR.
having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
From this reading Farewell!
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
be excessively hot
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
plural of “hash” — chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
the next day
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
meat from a mature domestic sheep
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
go across or through
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
express in words
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
From this reading To think how flesh must pass away-- So mutton, that is warm to-day, Is cold, and turn’d to hashes, on the morrow!
in the company of; together with
From this reading Ah me, my soul is touch’d with sorrow!
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading I would say more, but I Have other fish to fry.
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