Chapter 16 of The Princess Tarakanova is here in full — 58 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 16 of The Princess Tarakanova is here in full — 58 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore. Oh! my God! what anguish! Tears blinded me. Sobs stifled me. I hated, I cursed the whole world.
Chapter 16 of The Princess Tarakanova is here in full — 58 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/11 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
extreme mental distress
From this reading “Oh! my God! what anguish!”
deprived of sight
From this reading “Tears blinded me.”
deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
From this reading “I hated, I cursed the whole world.”
treated with dislike or contempt
From this reading “I hated, I cursed the whole world.”
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
the land along the edge of a body of water
From this reading “_REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.”
plural of “sob” — a dyspneic condition
From this reading “Sobs stifled me.”
held in check with difficulty
From this reading “Sobs stifled me.”
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.
In this reading “I hated, I cursed the whole world.”
In this reading “_REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.”
In this reading “_REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
extreme mental distress
From this reading Oh! my God! what anguish!
deprived of sight
From this reading Tears blinded me.
deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
From this reading I hated, I cursed the whole world.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading _REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
From this reading _REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
From this reading Oh! my God! what anguish!
treated with dislike or contempt
From this reading I hated, I cursed the whole world.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Tears blinded me.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Oh! my God! what anguish!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh! my God! what anguish!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading _REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
From this reading _REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.
the land along the edge of a body of water
From this reading _REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.
plural of “sob” — a dyspneic condition
From this reading Sobs stifled me.
held in check with difficulty
From this reading Sobs stifled me.
the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
From this reading Tears blinded me.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _REMORSE._ I fell down on the shore.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Oh! my God! what anguish!
including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
From this reading I hated, I cursed the whole world.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading I hated, I cursed the whole world.
Chapter 16 of The Princess Tarakanova by G. P. (Grigorii Petrovich) Danilevskii holds 58 sentences, grouped into 12 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 16 holds 58 sentences of The Princess Tarakanova, unabridged, divided into 12 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 16 of The Princess Tarakanova by G. P. (Grigorii Petrovich) Danilevskii exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 58 sentences, grouped into 12 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 12 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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