Chapter 10 of The Dark Other is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of The Dark Other is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes. They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell. Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes. "Where are we?" she murmured. "In Hell?"
Chapter 10 of The Dark Other is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 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.
intentionally conceived
From this reading “The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.”
a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
From this reading “Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.”
capable of arousing and holding the attention
From this reading “They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.”
a long fixed look
From this reading “The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.”
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading “"In Hell?"”
orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
From this reading “They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.”
impossible to break especially under ordinary usage
From this reading “They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.”
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
From this reading “Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.”
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 “Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.”
In this reading “"In Hell?"”
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 before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "Where are we?" she murmured.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
not open or affording passage or access
From this reading Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.
intentionally conceived
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
From this reading Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.
opinion or judgment
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
capable of arousing and holding the attention
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
a long fixed look
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
a young female
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
occupied or in the control of; often used in combination
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading "In Hell?"
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
past form of “murmur” — speak softly or indistinctly
From this reading "Where are we?" she murmured.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
and nothing more
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
have ownership or possession of
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.
orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
impossible to break especially under ordinary usage
From this reading They held her own in a fascinating, unbreakable, trance-like spell.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The girl was conscious at first only of the gaze of the red eyes.
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
From this reading Then, in a wave of dizziness, she closed her own eyes.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "Where are we?" she murmured.
in or at the place that
From this reading "Where are we?" she murmured.
Chapter 10 of The Dark Other by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum holds 402 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 402 sentences of The Dark Other, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of The Dark Other by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 402 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.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 10 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Dark Other, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
