Chapter 21 of The Man in the Brown Suit is here in full — 307 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 21 of The Man in the Brown Suit is here in full — 307 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
I drove to the hotel. There was no one in the lounge that I knew. I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door. Her voice bade me “come in.” When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
Chapter 21 of The Man in the Brown Suit is here in full — 307 sentences across 62 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
From this reading “Her voice bade me “come in.””
a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
From this reading “I drove to the hotel.”
a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
From this reading “I drove to the hotel.”
in a literal sense
From this reading “When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.”
sit or recline comfortably
From this reading “There was no one in the lounge that I knew.”
the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
From this reading “When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.”
in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug
From this reading “I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.”
on a floor above
From this reading “I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.”
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 “I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.”
In this reading “When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.
a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
From this reading Her voice bade me “come in.”
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Her voice bade me “come in.”
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.
a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
From this reading I drove to the hotel.
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Her voice bade me “come in.”
a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
From this reading I drove to the hotel.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I drove to the hotel.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
inflected form of “know” — be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
in a literal sense
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
sit or recline comfortably
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Her voice bade me “come in.”
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
not any; not one
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
inflected form of “run” — move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.
cut with a saw
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.
in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug
From this reading I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I drove to the hotel.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I drove to the hotel.
on a floor above
From this reading I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzanne’s door.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Her voice bade me “come in.”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was no one in the lounge that I knew.
at the time that
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
which person or people
From this reading When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck.
Chapter 21 of The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie holds 307 sentences, grouped into 62 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 21 holds 307 sentences of The Man in the Brown Suit, unabridged, divided into 62 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 21 of The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 307 sentences, grouped into 62 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 62 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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