Chapter 10 of The Dark House is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of The Dark House is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"You think you can? And then we ourselves. We're different, aren't we? We've got our work. We're going to do big things.
Chapter 10 of The Dark House is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “We're going to do big things.”
unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
From this reading “We're different, aren't we?”
the act of departing
From this reading “We're going to do big things.”
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “We've got our work.”
used when we are both doing the action and receiving it
From this reading “And then we ourselves.”
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading “We're going to do big things.”
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading “"You think you can?”
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading “We've got our work.”
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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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And then we ourselves.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We're different, aren't we?
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading We're going to do big things.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading "You think you can?
unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
From this reading We're different, aren't we?
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading We're going to do big things.
the act of departing
From this reading We're going to do big things.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading We've got our work.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading We've got our work.
used when we are both doing the action and receiving it
From this reading And then we ourselves.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading And then we ourselves.
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading We're going to do big things.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading "You think you can?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We're going to do big things.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading And then we ourselves.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We're different, aren't we?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We've got our work.
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading We've got our work.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "You think you can?
Chapter 10 of The Dark House by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie holds 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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 10 holds 401 sentences of The Dark House, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of The Dark House by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 81 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.
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