Chapter 7 of The Mayor's Wife is here in full — 74 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of The Mayor's Wife is here in full — 74 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
I was up betimes. Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast? I hardly thought so. Yet who knows? Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
Chapter 7 of The Mayor's Wife is here in full — 74 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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acted upon; influenced
From this reading “Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.”
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading “Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?”
eat an early morning meal
From this reading “Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?”
considered likely or probable to happen or arrive
From this reading “Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.”
only a very short time before
From this reading “I hardly thought so.”
in a cryptic manner
From this reading “Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.”
plural of “power” — possession of controlling influence
From this reading “Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.”
promoting recuperation
From this reading “Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.”
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acted upon; influenced
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
any thing at all
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
in good time
From this reading I was up betimes.
eat an early morning meal
From this reading Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?
considered likely or probable to happen or arrive
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
only a very short time before
From this reading I hardly thought so.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I was up betimes.
plural of “know” — the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
From this reading Yet who knows?
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?
in a cryptic manner
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
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From this reading Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?
plural of “power” — possession of controlling influence
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
promoting recuperation
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading I hardly thought so.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I hardly thought so.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading I was up betimes.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I was up betimes.
which person or people
From this reading Yet who knows?
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading Such women have great recuperative powers, and from one so mysteriously affected anything might be expected.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Would Mrs. Packard appear at breakfast?
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet who knows?
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