Chapter 14 of The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 2) is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XIV
Chapter 14 of The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 2) is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
His Grateful Patient. She has destroyed herself! That was the keynote to all his thoughts. Destroyed herself, made away with herself! Destroyed herself!
Chapter 14 of The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 2) is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 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.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “Destroyed herself, made away with herself!”
spoiled or ruined or demolished
From this reading “She has destroyed herself!”
feeling or showing gratitude
From this reading “His Grateful Patient.”
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading “She has destroyed herself!”
the principal theme in a speech or literary work
From this reading “That was the keynote to all his thoughts.”
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading “Destroyed herself, made away with herself!”
a person who requires medical care
From this reading “His Grateful Patient.”
plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “That was the keynote to all his thoughts.”
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
(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 That was the keynote to all his thoughts.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Destroyed herself, made away with herself!
spoiled or ruined or demolished
From this reading She has destroyed herself!
feeling or showing gratitude
From this reading His Grateful Patient.
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading She has destroyed herself!
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading She has destroyed herself!
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His Grateful Patient.
the principal theme in a speech or literary work
From this reading That was the keynote to all his thoughts.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Destroyed herself, made away with herself!
a person who requires medical care
From this reading His Grateful Patient.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She has destroyed herself!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That was the keynote to all his thoughts.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading That was the keynote to all his thoughts.
plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading That was the keynote to all his thoughts.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading That was the keynote to all his thoughts.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading That was the keynote to all his thoughts.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Destroyed herself, made away with herself!
Chapter 14 of The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 2) by Edmund Yates holds 170 sentences, grouped into 34 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 14 holds 170 sentences of The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 2), unabridged, divided into 34 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 14 of The Forlorn Hope: A Novel (Vol. 1 of 2) by Edmund Yates exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 170 sentences, grouped into 34 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 34 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 14 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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