Chapter 2 of The Golden Flood is here in full — 426 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Golden Flood is here in full — 426 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“_Your_ mine would be.” The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes. Grin-nell hesitated. “I’ll deposit this, then,” he said. “Good-morning.”
Chapter 2 of The Golden Flood is here in full — 426 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
put, fix, force, or implant
From this reading ““I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.”
opinion or judgment
From this reading “The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.”
past form of “gaze” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading “The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.”
past form of “hesitate” — pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
From this reading “Grin-nell hesitated.”
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading ““_Your_ mine would be.””
an executive officer of a firm or corporation
From this reading “The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.”
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading ““I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading ““_Your_ mine would be.””
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in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “_Your_ mine would be.”
put, fix, force, or implant
From this reading “I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.
opinion or judgment
From this reading The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.
in a fixed manner
From this reading The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.
past form of “gaze” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Good-morning.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Grin-nell hesitated.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.
past form of “hesitate” — pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
From this reading Grin-nell hesitated.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “_Your_ mine would be.”
an executive officer of a firm or corporation
From this reading The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.
wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
From this reading The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The president gazed fixedly at the spectacled eyes.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading “I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “I’ll deposit this, then,” he said.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “_Your_ mine would be.”
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “_Your_ mine would be.”
Chapter 2 of The Golden Flood by Edwin Lefevre holds 426 sentences, grouped into 86 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 2 holds 426 sentences of The Golden Flood, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Golden Flood by Edwin Lefevre exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 426 sentences, grouped into 86 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 86 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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