Chapter 12 of The Dark Flower is here in full — 436 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Dark Flower is here in full — 436 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching. He turned in with a beating heart. Was he before her? How would she come to this first dance? With Oliver alone?
Chapter 12 of The Dark Flower is here in full — 436 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/87 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
Having no one else present.
From this reading “With Oliver alone?”
a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun
From this reading “Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.”
the act of overcoming or outdoing
From this reading “He turned in with a beating heart.”
plural of “carriage” — a railcar where passengers ride
From this reading “Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.”
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading “How would she come to this first dance?”
having the power of driving or impelling
From this reading “Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.”
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
From this reading “With Oliver alone?”
the act of observing; taking a patient look
From this reading “Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.”
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 “He turned in with a beating heart.”
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 He turned in with a beating heart.
Having no one else present.
From this reading With Oliver alone?
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
the act of overcoming or outdoing
From this reading He turned in with a beating heart.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading Was he before her?
plural of “carriage” — a railcar where passengers ride
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
having the power of driving or impelling
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He turned in with a beating heart.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading He turned in with a beating heart.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Was he before her?
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading He turned in with a beating heart.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
From this reading With Oliver alone?
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
having red stripes
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
moved around an axis or center
From this reading He turned in with a beating heart.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
the act of observing; taking a patient look
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Here was the place with red-striped awning, carriages driving away, loiterers watching.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading How would she come to this first dance?
Chapter 12 of The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy holds 436 sentences, grouped into 88 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 12 holds 436 sentences of The Dark Flower, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 436 sentences, grouped into 88 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 88 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 88 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 12 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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