Chapter 5 of The professor's experiment — Vol. 3 is here in full — 174 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The professor's experiment — Vol. 3 is here in full — 174 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’ ‘Is this thing true, George?’ ‘What thing?’ asks Crosby. ‘Oh, you know—you know. You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
Chapter 5 of The professor's experiment — Vol. 3 is here in full — 174 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
From this reading “You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’”
third-person singular of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “‘What thing?’ asks Crosby.”
completely unclothed
From this reading “‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’”
United States singer and film actor (1903-1977)
From this reading “‘What thing?’ asks Crosby.”
(plural) the deepest and most remote part
From this reading “You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’”
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading “‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’”
a feeling of intense anger
From this reading “You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’”
take away possessions from someone
From this reading “‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’”
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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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
(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 You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
third-person singular of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading ‘What thing?’ asks Crosby.
completely unclothed
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
United States singer and film actor (1903-1977)
From this reading ‘What thing?’ asks Crosby.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
(plural) the deepest and most remote part
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
send away towards a designated goal
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
opinion or judgment
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
a feeling of intense anger
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading ‘Is this thing true, George?’
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading ‘Is this thing true, George?’
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading ‘Oh, you know—you know.
apprehended with certainty
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
plural of “make” — a recognizable kind
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading ‘Oh, you know—you know.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
accomplished rapidly and without delay
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
take away possessions from someone
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
a special situation
From this reading ‘Is this thing true, George?’
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading ‘Is this thing true, George?’
consistent with fact or reality; not false
From this reading ‘Is this thing true, George?’
the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
used to ask for information about something
From this reading ‘What thing?’ asks Crosby.
in the company of; together with
From this reading You’—turning her cold eyes on him with actual fury in their depths—‘must have known it all along.’
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ‘Fortune makes quick despatch, and in a day May strip you bare as beggary itself.’
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