Chapter 3 of The Rebel of Valkyr is here in full — 487 sentences across 98 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter III
Chapter 3 of The Rebel of Valkyr is here in full — 487 sentences across 98 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
He was stiff and cold. Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely. His wounds had not been tended. Very carefully, he opened his eyes. They told him what he had already known.
Chapter 3 of The Rebel of Valkyr is here in full — 487 sentences across 98 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/97 · 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.
to a severe or serious degree
From this reading “Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.”
taking care or paying attention
From this reading “Very carefully, he opened his eyes.”
be the source of pain
From this reading “Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.”
used of mouth or eyes
From this reading “Very carefully, he opened his eyes.”
not moving or operating freely
From this reading “He was stiff and cold.”
past form of “tend” — have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
From this reading “His wounds had not been tended.”
in a vague way
From this reading “Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.”
plural of “wound” — an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
From this reading “His wounds had not been tended.”
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 “They told him what he had already known.”
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prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading They told him what he had already known.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading He was stiff and cold.
to a severe or serious degree
From this reading Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading His wounds had not been tended.
taking care or paying attention
From this reading Very carefully, he opened his eyes.
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 He was stiff and cold.
opinion or judgment
From this reading Very carefully, he opened his eyes.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading His wounds had not been tended.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He was stiff and cold.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading They told him what he had already known.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His wounds had not been tended.
be the source of pain
From this reading Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.
apprehended with certainty
From this reading They told him what he had already known.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading His wounds had not been tended.
used of mouth or eyes
From this reading Very carefully, he opened his eyes.
not moving or operating freely
From this reading He was stiff and cold.
past form of “tend” — have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
From this reading His wounds had not been tended.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They told him what he had already known.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading They told him what he had already known.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.
in a vague way
From this reading Hurt badly, too, he thought vaguely.
precisely as stated
From this reading Very carefully, he opened his eyes.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He was stiff and cold.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading They told him what he had already known.
plural of “wound” — an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
From this reading His wounds had not been tended.
Chapter 3 of The Rebel of Valkyr by Alfred Coppel holds 487 sentences, grouped into 98 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 3 holds 487 sentences of The Rebel of Valkyr, unabridged, divided into 98 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Rebel of Valkyr by Alfred Coppel exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 487 sentences, grouped into 98 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.
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