Chapter 18 of The dark mother is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 18 of The dark mother is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“I go out for business. If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night. And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.” “Well, I like to go out for pleasure.” “By all means, Davie.
Chapter 18 of The dark mother is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 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.
plural of “blaze” — a strong flame that burns brightly
From this reading “And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.””
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
From this reading “If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.”
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading ““I go out for business.”
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.”
plural of “hostess” — a woman host
From this reading “And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.””
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading ““By all means, Davie.”
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
From this reading ““Well, I like to go out for pleasure.””
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading “If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.”
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.
move out of or depart from
In this reading ““I go out for business.”
In this reading ““By all means, Davie.”
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.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading “By all means, Davie.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.”
plural of “blaze” — a strong flame that burns brightly
From this reading And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.”
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading “I go out for business.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading “By all means, Davie.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “By all means, Davie.
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “I go out for business.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “I go out for business.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
plural of “hostess” — a woman host
From this reading And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I go out for business.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading “Well, I like to go out for pleasure.”
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading “By all means, Davie.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading “I go out for business.
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
From this reading “Well, I like to go out for pleasure.”
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
express in words
From this reading And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And tell the hostesses to go to blazes.”
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading If I had my way I’d stay home every blessed night.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Well, I like to go out for pleasure.”
Chapter 18 of The dark mother by Waldo David Frank holds 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 18 holds 410 sentences of The dark mother, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 18 of The dark mother by Waldo David Frank exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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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