Chapter 15 of The Longest Journey is here in full — 632 sentences across 127 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of The Longest Journey is here in full — 632 sentences across 127 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“A most unsatisfactory position.” “So I feel.” She sat down again with a sigh. Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind. “She is an odd woman.
Chapter 15 of The Longest Journey is here in full — 632 sentences across 127 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/126 · 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.
a flaw or weak point
From this reading “Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.”
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
From this reading ““So I feel.””
not divisible by two
From this reading ““She is an odd woman.”
a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer
From this reading “Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.”
the particular portion of space occupied by something
From this reading ““A most unsatisfactory position.””
heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading “She sat down again with a sigh.”
the act of testing something
From this reading “Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.”
not giving satisfaction
From this reading ““A most unsatisfactory position.””
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 ““A most unsatisfactory position.””
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “A most unsatisfactory position.”
anew
From this reading She sat down again with a sigh.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading “She is an odd woman.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading She sat down again with a sigh.
a flaw or weak point
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
From this reading “So I feel.”
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “So I feel.”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “She is an odd woman.
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
used to form the superlative
From this reading “A most unsatisfactory position.”
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
not divisible by two
From this reading “She is an odd woman.
a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
the particular portion of space occupied by something
From this reading “A most unsatisfactory position.”
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading She sat down again with a sigh.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She sat down again with a sigh.
heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading She sat down again with a sigh.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “So I feel.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
the act of testing something
From this reading Mrs. Failing had been a great trial to her orderly mind.
not giving satisfaction
From this reading “A most unsatisfactory position.”
in the company of; together with
From this reading She sat down again with a sigh.
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading “She is an odd woman.
Chapter 15 of The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster holds 632 sentences, grouped into 127 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 15 holds 632 sentences of The Longest Journey, unabridged, divided into 127 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 15 of The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 632 sentences, grouped into 127 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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