Chapter 18 of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other is here in full — 183 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 18 of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other is here in full — 183 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Henry's Log, June 5. Dreadful forebodings. God spare us from all such horrors! Some of the men getting to talk a good deal. Nothing to write down.
Chapter 18 of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other is here in full — 183 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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causing fear or dread or terror
From this reading “Dreadful forebodings.”
the act of acquiring something
From this reading “Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.”
possessive form of “henry” — a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
From this reading “Henry's Log, June 5.”
plural of “horror” — intense and profound fear
From this reading “God spare us from all such horrors!”
the month following May and preceding July
From this reading “Henry's Log, June 5.”
enter into a log, as on ships and planes
From this reading “Henry's Log, June 5.”
refrain from harming
From this reading “God spare us from all such horrors!”
produce a literary work
From this reading “Nothing to write down.”
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From this reading Henry's Log, June 5.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
(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 God spare us from all such horrors!
act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Nothing to write down.
causing fear or dread or terror
From this reading Dreadful forebodings.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dreadful forebodings.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading God spare us from all such horrors!
the act of acquiring something
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
From this reading God spare us from all such horrors!
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
possessive form of “henry” — a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
From this reading Henry's Log, June 5.
plural of “horror” — intense and profound fear
From this reading God spare us from all such horrors!
the month following May and preceding July
From this reading Henry's Log, June 5.
enter into a log, as on ships and planes
From this reading Henry's Log, June 5.
the force of workers available
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Nothing to write down.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
refrain from harming
From this reading God spare us from all such horrors!
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading God spare us from all such horrors!
exchange thoughts; talk with
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Some of the men getting to talk a good deal.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading God spare us from all such horrors!
produce a literary work
From this reading Nothing to write down.
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