Chapter 12 of The Hospital Murders is here in full — 377 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Hospital Murders is here in full — 377 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Snod rose slowly. “Where are you going? What shall I tell Lil?” “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women. Tell Lil she’s right.”
Chapter 12 of The Hospital Murders is here in full — 377 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/75 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
the act of departing
From this reading ““Where are you going?”
fortitude and determination
From this reading ““To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.”
precisely, exactly
From this reading “Tell Lil she’s right.””
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading “Snod rose slowly.”
cause fear in
From this reading ““To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.”
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
From this reading “Snod rose slowly.”
express in words
From this reading “What shall I tell Lil?””
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading ““To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.”
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.
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the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “Where are you going?
the act of departing
From this reading “Where are you going?
fortitude and determination
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading What shall I tell Lil?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading What shall I tell Lil?”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
precisely, exactly
From this reading Tell Lil she’s right.”
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading Snod rose slowly.
cause fear in
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading What shall I tell Lil?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Tell Lil she’s right.”
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
From this reading Snod rose slowly.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Snod rose slowly.
express in words
From this reading What shall I tell Lil?”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What shall I tell Lil?”
in or at the place that
From this reading “Where are you going?
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading “To scare the guts out of the Kerr women.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Where are you going?
Chapter 12 of The Hospital Murders by Means Davis holds 377 sentences, grouped into 76 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 12 holds 377 sentences of The Hospital Murders, unabridged, divided into 76 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Hospital Murders by Means Davis exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 377 sentences, grouped into 76 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 76 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 76 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.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 12 can be played aloud in United States English.
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