Chapter 3 of The Fool: A Play in Four Acts is here in full — 366 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter III
Chapter 3 of The Fool: A Play in Four Acts is here in full — 366 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty. Don't you think there might have been a compromise? Something half way? DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal? CLARE Yours seem quite healed.
Chapter 3 of The Fool: A Play in Four Acts is here in full — 366 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an imaginary monster used to frighten children
From this reading “CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.”
make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
From this reading “Don't you think there might have been a compromise?”
(Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)
From this reading “DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?”
made afraid
From this reading “CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.”
heal or recover
From this reading “DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?”
freed from illness or injury
From this reading “CLARE Yours seem quite healed.”
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
From this reading “CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.”
plural of “wound” — an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
From this reading “DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?”
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 “Something half way?”
In this reading “CLARE Yours seem quite healed.”
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 Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
the event consisting of the start of something
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
an imaginary monster used to frighten children
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
From this reading Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
(Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
made afraid
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
From this reading Something half way?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
heal or recover
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
freed from illness or injury
From this reading CLARE Yours seem quite healed.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading CLARE Yours seem quite healed.
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading CLARE Yours seem quite healed.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading Something half way?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
in or at that place or location
From this reading Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading Don't you think there might have been a compromise?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading Something half way?
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
in the company of; together with
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
plural of “wound” — an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
From this reading DANIEL Why open wounds that are beginning to heal?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading CLARE You frightened me so that night, with the bugaboo of poverty.
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading CLARE Yours seem quite healed.
Chapter 3 of The Fool: A Play in Four Acts by Channing Pollock holds 366 sentences, grouped into 74 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 3 holds 366 sentences of The Fool: A Play in Four Acts, unabridged, divided into 74 reading sections.
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