Chapter 7 of The Hallowell Partnership is here in full — 291 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of The Hallowell Partnership is here in full — 291 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?" Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her. "Just a minute." Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields. She could hardly believe her eyes.
Chapter 7 of The Hallowell Partnership is here in full — 291 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
From this reading “THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"”
a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral
From this reading “THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"”
United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
From this reading “Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.”
possessive form of “gates” — United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
From this reading “Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.”
of or relating to or venerating the Virgin Mary
From this reading “Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.”
past form of “summon” — call in an official matter, such as to attend court
From this reading “Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.”
given a completely different form or appearance
From this reading “Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.”
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading “Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.”
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 “Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.”
In this reading “Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.”
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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 "Just a minute."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
accept as true; take to be true
From this reading She could hardly believe her eyes.
eat an early morning meal
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading She could hardly believe her eyes.
opinion or judgment
From this reading She could hardly believe her eyes.
United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
possessive form of “gates” — United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
From this reading Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
only a very short time before
From this reading She could hardly believe her eyes.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.
and nothing more
From this reading "Just a minute."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
of or relating to or venerating the Virgin Mary
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading "Just a minute."
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings
From this reading Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.
completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She could hardly believe her eyes.
past form of “summon” — call in an official matter, such as to attend court
From this reading Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE COAL AND THE COMMODORE "Ready for breakfast, Miss Hallowell?"
given a completely different form or appearance
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Mrs. Gates's pleasant voice summoned her.
a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading Marian loitered at the window, looking out at the transformed woods and fields.
Chapter 7 of The Hallowell Partnership by Katharine Holland Brown holds 291 sentences, grouped into 59 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 7 holds 291 sentences of The Hallowell Partnership, unabridged, divided into 59 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of The Hallowell Partnership by Katharine Holland Brown exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 291 sentences, grouped into 59 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 59 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 59 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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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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