Chapter 5 of The Honorable Percival is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Honorable Percival is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Is she what?" "The girl you let down easy?" "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby. "Very well, Roberta. It's your time to read to me.
Chapter 5 of The Honorable Percival is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an informal term for a British policeman
From this reading “"Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.”
having something undesirable neutralized
From this reading “"Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.”
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
From this reading “"The girl you let down easy?"”
a young female
From this reading “"The girl you let down easy?"”
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading “"The girl you let down easy?"”
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading “"Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.”
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading “It's your time to read to me.”
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading “"Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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an informal term for a British policeman
From this reading "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.
having something undesirable neutralized
From this reading "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading "The girl you let down easy?"
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
From this reading "The girl you let down easy?"
a young female
From this reading "The girl you let down easy?"
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Is she what?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's your time to read to me.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading "The girl you let down easy?"
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading It's your time to read to me.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading It's your time to read to me.
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Is she what?"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "The girl you let down easy?"
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading It's your time to read to me.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It's your time to read to me.
precisely as stated
From this reading "Very well, Roberta.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading "Well, really, Miss Boynton--" "Roberta," corrected Bobby.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "Is she what?"
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "The girl you let down easy?"
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading It's your time to read to me.
Chapter 5 of The Honorable Percival by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice holds 412 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 5 holds 412 sentences of The Honorable Percival, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of The Honorable Percival by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 412 sentences, grouped into 83 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.
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