Chapter 2 of The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story is here in full — 220 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story is here in full — 220 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick. My mother went first and escaped him. Then came my sister, then I, then my brother. My father was last of all. The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
Chapter 2 of The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story is here in full — 220 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 26/44 · 5 reading units · Lines 126–130
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having escaped, especially from confinement
From this reading “My mother went first and escaped him.”
the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
From this reading “The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.”
cause to move by striking
From this reading “The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.”
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading “Then came my sister, then I, then my brother.”
moving as on a slippery surface
From this reading “The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.”
put, fix, force, or implant
From this reading “The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.”
make a dull sound
From this reading “The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.”
arousing affect
From this reading “The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.”
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.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading My father was last of all.
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading Then came my sister, then I, then my brother.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Then came my sister, then I, then my brother.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
having escaped, especially from confinement
From this reading My mother went first and escaped him.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading My father was last of all.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading My mother went first and escaped him.
the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading My mother went first and escaped him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
cause to move by striking
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Then came my sister, then I, then my brother.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
and nothing more
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
immediately past
From this reading My father was last of all.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading My mother went first and escaped him.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My mother went first and escaped him.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading My father was last of all.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
inflected form of “run” — move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
cut with a saw
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading Then came my sister, then I, then my brother.
moving as on a slippery surface
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
put, fix, force, or implant
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then came my sister, then I, then my brother.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
make a dull sound
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
arousing affect
From this reading The man hit with his stick and it came down thud along side of me, just touching my fur.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading My father was last of all.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading My mother went first and escaped him.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The other man saw us slipping through and ran at us with his stick.
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