Chapter 13 of The counterfeiters is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of The counterfeiters is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The maid came back with the sugar. “Have you told Mr. Armand?” “Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.” “And Sarah?” I asked.
Chapter 13 of The counterfeiters is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 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.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading ““Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.””
without deviation
From this reading ““Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.””
a woman of refinement
a female domestic
From this reading “The maid came back with the sugar.”
(Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac
From this reading ““And Sarah?””
a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
From this reading “The maid came back with the sugar.”
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading ““Have you told Mr. Armand?””
an affirmative
From this reading ““Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.””
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.
be restored
In this reading “The maid came back with the sugar.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And Sarah?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Have you told Mr. Armand?”
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading I asked.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading The maid came back with the sugar.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading The maid came back with the sugar.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading “Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.”
without deviation
From this reading “Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Have you told Mr. Armand?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I asked.
a woman of refinement
From this reading “Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.”
a female domestic
From this reading The maid came back with the sugar.
a form of address for a man
From this reading “Have you told Mr. Armand?”
(Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac
From this reading “And Sarah?”
a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
From this reading The maid came back with the sugar.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The maid came back with the sugar.
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading “Have you told Mr. Armand?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading The maid came back with the sugar.
an affirmative
From this reading “Yes, Ma’am; he’s coming directly.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Have you told Mr. Armand?”
Chapter 13 of The counterfeiters by André Gide holds 414 sentences, grouped into 83 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 13 holds 414 sentences of The counterfeiters, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 13 of The counterfeiters by André Gide exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 414 sentences, grouped into 83 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.
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