Chapter 26 of The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 26 of The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty. FORD. ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me. No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two. SCHILLER'S WALLENSTEIN.
Chapter 26 of The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance is here in full — 137 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an old word for “between”
From this reading “No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two.”
an electrical force linking atoms
From this reading “----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.”
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
From this reading “----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.”
part; cease or break association with
From this reading “TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.”
United States film maker (1896-1973)
From this reading “FORD.”
possessive form of “schiller” — German romantic writer (1759-1805)
From this reading “SCHILLER'S WALLENSTEIN.”
Betrayal of trust; deceptive action or disloyalty against a host or ally.
From this reading “TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.”
Austrian general who fought for the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
From this reading “SCHILLER'S WALLENSTEIN.”
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 “TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.”
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the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
an old word for “between”
From this reading No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two.
an electrical force linking atoms
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
lacking funds
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
part; cease or break association with
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
United States film maker (1896-1973)
From this reading FORD.
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
characteristic of humanity
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
not any; not one
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
possession of controlling influence
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
possessive form of “schiller” — German romantic writer (1759-1805)
From this reading SCHILLER'S WALLENSTEIN.
appearing as such but not necessarily so
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
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From this reading No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
From this reading No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two.
Betrayal of trust; deceptive action or disloyalty against a host or ally.
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading No human tie is snapp'd betwixt us two.
Austrian general who fought for the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
From this reading SCHILLER'S WALLENSTEIN.
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
in the company of; together with
From this reading ----With My fortune and my seeming destiny, He made the bond, and broke it not with me.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading TREACHERY I am your wife, No human power can or shall divorce My faith from duty.
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