Chapter 8 of The Grey Man is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The Grey Man is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’ ’Haud your tongue, guidman. Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate. What should he have to do with lasses? At his years!’
Chapter 8 of The Grey Man is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 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.
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
From this reading “’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’”
partial or complete loss of hearing
From this reading “’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’”
someone who doesn't understand what is going on
From this reading “’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’”
a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
From this reading “’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’”
the principal law-enforcement officer in a county
From this reading “’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’”
not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
From this reading “Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.”
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading “’Haud your tongue, guidman.”
characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
From this reading “’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’”
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.
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a teenager or a young adult male
In this reading “Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.”
In this reading “’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’”
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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 ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At his years!’
cry plaintively
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
partial or complete loss of hearing
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading What should he have to do with lasses?
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’Haud your tongue, guidman.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’Haud your tongue, guidman.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading At his years!’
not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
someone who doesn't understand what is going on
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading What should he have to do with lasses?
a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
plural of “look” — the feelings expressed on a person's face
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
the principal law-enforcement officer in a county
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading What should he have to do with lasses?
not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading What should he have to do with lasses?
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading ’Haud your tongue, guidman.
characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What should he have to do with lasses?
in the company of; together with
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
a late time of life
From this reading At his years!’
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading Have some mense afore the young man, for he looks a sober chiel and blate.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’Na,’ said the Sheriff, ’but your father, honest man, was sair troubled with deafness, and your mother was blind, and lame o’ a leg forbye.’
Chapter 8 of The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett holds 414 sentences, grouped into 83 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 8 holds 414 sentences of The Grey Man, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
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