Chapter 5 of The Devourers is here in full — 748 sentences across 150 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Devourers is here in full — 748 sentences across 150 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked. Nancy shook her head. "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?" "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers. "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
Chapter 5 of The Devourers is here in full — 748 sentences across 150 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the organic process of bearing flowers
From this reading “"Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.”
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
From this reading “"Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.”
pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
From this reading “"Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.”
plural of “idea” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “"And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"”
restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition
From this reading “"Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.”
a city in northeastern France in Lorraine
From this reading “Nancy shook her head.”
force or impel in an indicated direction
From this reading “"And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"”
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
From this reading “"Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.”
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 “"Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.”
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 "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
(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 "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
the organic process of bearing flowers
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
exhale hard
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
From this reading "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.
the feelings expressed on a person's face
From this reading "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"
plural of “finger” — any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
From this reading "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.
plural of “flower” — a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
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a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading Nancy shook her head.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Nancy shook her head.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
plural of “idea” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"
restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition
From this reading "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "Ideas and thoughts grow and bloom and blow in my mind like flowers in a garden.
a city in northeastern France in Lorraine
From this reading Nancy shook her head.
not any; not one
From this reading "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"
not one thing; not anything
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.
cut with a saw
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a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading Nancy shook her head.
from a time in the past until now
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"
plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"
force or impel in an indicated direction
From this reading "And have you no thoughts, no ideas that urge for expression?"
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
From this reading "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.
an affirmative
From this reading "Oh yes!" said Nancy, waving eloquent, impatient fingers.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Have you done nothing at all since I saw you?" he asked.
Chapter 5 of The Devourers by Annie Vivanti holds 748 sentences, grouped into 150 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 5 holds 748 sentences of The Devourers, unabridged, divided into 150 reading sections.
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