Chapter 9 of The Mysterious Three is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of The Mysterious Three is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
It was the dark giant I knew as Davies. What was he doing? I could not see. Some one was beside him, also with his back turned. I started.
Chapter 9 of The Mysterious Three is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
in addition
From this reading “Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.”
next to; at the side of
From this reading “Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.”
absence of light or illumination
From this reading “It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.”
plural of “davy” — English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
From this reading “It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.”
-ing form of “do” — engage in
From this reading “What was he doing?”
any creature of exceptional size
From this reading “It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.”
past form of “start” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading “I started.”
moved around an axis or center
From this reading “Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.”
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.
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in addition
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
next to; at the side of
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading I could not see.
absence of light or illumination
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
plural of “davy” — English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
-ing form of “do” — engage in
From this reading What was he doing?
any creature of exceptional size
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading What was he doing?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
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 It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading I could not see.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading I could not see.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
past form of “start” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading I started.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
moved around an axis or center
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was the dark giant I knew as Davies.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What was he doing?
in the company of; together with
From this reading Some one was beside him, also with his back turned.
Chapter 9 of The Mysterious Three by William Le Queux holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 9 holds 416 sentences of The Mysterious Three, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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