Chapter 25 of The Haute Noblesse: A Novel is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 25 of The Haute Noblesse: A Novel is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"You sent?" "Yes, a long telegram." "Uncle, what have you done?" "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother." "Uncle!"
Chapter 25 of The Haute Noblesse: A Novel is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
From this reading “"What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."”
terminate
From this reading “"What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."”
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading “"What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."”
in a gradual manner
From this reading “"What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."”
used with “to” to say what is right or advisable
From this reading “"What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."”
100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
From this reading “"You sent?"”
a message transmitted by telegraph
From this reading “"Yes, a long telegram."”
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading “"Uncle, what have you done?"”
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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 "Yes, a long telegram."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
terminate
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
a young person of either sex
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading "Uncle, what have you done?"
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
in a gradual manner
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "Uncle, what have you done?"
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading "Yes, a long telegram."
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
used with “to” to say what is right or advisable
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
From this reading "You sent?"
a message transmitted by telegraph
From this reading "Yes, a long telegram."
express in words
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "What I ought to do, my child, and bade her tell her father and mother, and then go and break it gently to my brother."
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading "Uncle, what have you done?"
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "Uncle, what have you done?"
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes, a long telegram."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "You sent?"
Chapter 25 of The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn holds 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 25 holds 419 sentences of The Haute Noblesse: A Novel, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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