Chapter 25 of The Outrage is here in full — 217 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 25 of The Outrage is here in full — 217 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her. It was Florian. It was Florian! What should she do? The child--where could she hide the child?
Chapter 25 of The Outrage is here in full — 217 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
a young person of either sex
From this reading “The child--where could she hide the child?”
prevent from being seen or discovered
From this reading “The child--where could she hide the child?”
past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
past form of “stagger” — walk as if unable to control one's movements
From this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree
From this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
From this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
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.
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In this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
In this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
In this reading “She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
a young person of either sex
From this reading The child--where could she hide the child?
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading The child--where could she hide the child?
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading What should she do?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was Florian.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
prevent from being seen or discovered
From this reading The child--where could she hide the child?
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was Florian.
past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading What should she do?
past form of “stagger” — walk as if unable to control one's movements
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was Florian.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What should she do?
in or at the place that
From this reading The child--where could she hide the child?
to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
From this reading She staggered back from the window and looked wildly round her.
Chapter 25 of The Outrage by Annie Vivanti holds 217 sentences, grouped into 44 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 25 holds 217 sentences of The Outrage, unabridged, divided into 44 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 25 of The Outrage by Annie Vivanti exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 217 sentences, grouped into 44 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 44 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 44 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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About 326 minutes of reading across 783 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Outrage, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
