Chapter 10 of The Duel and Other Stories is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of The Duel and Other Stories is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Here I am! Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed. "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch. Two thousand three hundred roubles! After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
Chapter 10 of The Duel and Other Stories is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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at or in the front
From this reading “Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.”
a feeling of craving something
From this reading “After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.”
without deviation
From this reading “"I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.”
take the midday meal
From this reading “"I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.”
plural of “plant” — buildings for carrying on industrial labor
From this reading “Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.”
the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
From this reading “Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.”
with speed
From this reading “Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.”
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
From this reading “After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.”
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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 After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
later than; following
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
at or in the front
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading "Here I am!
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
a feeling of craving something
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
without deviation
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
the act of departing
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading "Here I am!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
ten 10s
From this reading Two thousand three hundred roubles!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Here I am!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
plural of “leaf” — the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
take the midday meal
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
past form of “pass” — go across or through
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
plural of “plant” — buildings for carrying on industrial labor
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
with speed
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Two thousand three hundred roubles!
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
From this reading Two thousand three hundred roubles!
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading Two thousand three hundred roubles!
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading Two thousand three hundred roubles!
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
From this reading Come along!" she said, going on rapidly ahead of him and pulling off the yellow leaves from the plants as she passed.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "I'll give you the money directly, and if you like I'll give you some lunch.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading After such a good stroke of business you'll have an appetite for your lunch.
Chapter 10 of The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov holds 404 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.
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