Chapter 24 of The Place Beyond the Winds is here in full — 333 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 24 of The Place Beyond the Winds is here in full — 333 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment. She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all. She must pack and get away! And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly: "Before!"
Chapter 24 of The Place Beyond the Winds is here in full — 333 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
From this reading “Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.”
12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
From this reading “And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:”
arrange in a container
From this reading “She must pack and get away!”
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
From this reading “She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.”
past form of “smile” — change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
From this reading “And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:”
successive (without a break)
From this reading “Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.”
a state of acute pain
From this reading “She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.”
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
From this reading “And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:”
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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 And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
(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 She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
in spite of the fact that
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She must pack and get away!
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading She must pack and get away!
the past participle of “be”
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
earlier than; in front of
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading She must pack and get away!
destroyed or killed
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
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From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading She must pack and get away!
not any; not one
From this reading She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
have ownership or possession of
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
arrange in a container
From this reading She must pack and get away!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
From this reading She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
a general conscious awareness
From this reading She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
past form of “smile” — change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
successive (without a break)
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
a state of acute pain
From this reading She had no sense of suffering; no sensation at all.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
a special situation
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Priscilla had gone straight from Margaret Moffatt's to her own little apartment.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading And like a dead thing she set to work, although it was midnight and she had been so weary before; and then she smiled quiveringly:
Chapter 24 of The Place Beyond the Winds by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock holds 333 sentences, grouped into 67 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.
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