Chapter 10 of The 'Mind the Paint' Girl is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 10 of The 'Mind the Paint' Girl is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
JEYES. Work! All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it. My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham. At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
Chapter 10 of The 'Mind the Paint' Girl is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a job in an organization
From this reading “My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.”
(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
From this reading “All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.”
make a promise or commitment
From this reading “All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.”
cause to regain consciousness
From this reading “All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.”
inflected form of “sap” — deplete
From this reading “All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.”
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
From this reading “My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.”
something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
From this reading “My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.”
material for starting a fire
From this reading “All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
(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 All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
a job in an organization
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
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From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
divisible by two
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
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From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
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From this reading JEYES.
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 At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
make a promise or commitment
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
cause to regain consciousness
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
inflected form of “sap” — deplete
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
material for starting a fire
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading All the spunk, all the energy, had been sapped out of me long before, and even her promise couldn't revive it.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
precisely as stated
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
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From this reading My search for a berth wasn't much more than a sham.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading At the back of my head I knew very well what I'd come to.
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading Work!
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