Chapter 13 of The Explorer is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of The Explorer is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said. He got up and left the room. The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought. At last Julia answered him. 'And is that really all?
Chapter 13 of The Explorer is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading “At last Julia answered him.”
without stop or interruption
From this reading “The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.”
stop blaming or grant forgiveness
From this reading “'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.”
past form of “immerse” — thrust or throw into
From this reading “The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.”
go away from a place
From this reading “'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.”
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading “'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.”
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading “'And is that really all?”
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading “The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.”
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From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
(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 'And is that really all?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading He got up and left the room.
past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading At last Julia answered him.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At last Julia answered him.
without stop or interruption
From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
stop blaming or grant forgiveness
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading He got up and left the room.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading At last Julia answered him.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
past form of “immerse” — thrust or throw into
From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading 'And is that really all?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading At last Julia answered him.
immediately past
From this reading At last Julia answered him.
go away from a place
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading He got up and left the room.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading 'And is that really all?
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading He got up and left the room.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
not in physical motion
From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading 'And is that really all?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading He got up and left the room.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading The silence still continued, and Alec seemed immersed in thought.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading He got up and left the room.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading 'Forgive me if I leave you for one minute,' he said.
Chapter 13 of The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham holds 420 sentences, grouped into 84 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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