Chapter 6 of The House of the Wolf: A Romance is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 6 of The House of the Wolf: A Romance is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MADAME'S FRIGHT. And we breathed again. The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away. But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights. An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
Chapter 6 of The House of the Wolf: A Romance is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “adventure” — a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
From this reading “An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.”
Extreme physical or mental suffering; intense anguish.
From this reading “The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.”
uttered without voice
From this reading “And we breathed again.”
past form of “create” — make or cause to be or to become
From this reading “The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.”
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
From this reading “An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.”
an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
From this reading “MADAME'S FRIGHT.”
the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
From this reading “An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.”
apprehension about what is going to happen
From this reading “The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.”
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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 But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
plural of “adventure” — a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
(Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
anew
From this reading And we breathed again.
how long something has existed
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
Extreme physical or mental suffering; intense anguish.
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And we breathed again.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
at or toward the back of something
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
uttered without voice
From this reading And we breathed again.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
past form of “create” — make or cause to be or to become
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
separate with or as if with an instrument
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
undergo or live through a difficult experience
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
From this reading MADAME'S FRIGHT.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MADAME'S FRIGHT.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
past form of “pass” — go across or through
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
From this reading An age of experience, an aeon of adventures cut us off--as we lay shaking behind the curtain--from Caylus and its life.
apprehension about what is going to happen
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading And we breathed again.
any period of seven consecutive days
From this reading But the night already seemed to us as a week of nights.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The agony of suspense, which Bezers' pause had created, passed away.
Chapter 6 of The House of the Wolf: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman holds 288 sentences, grouped into 58 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.
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