Chapter 3 of The Rosary is here in full — 243 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of The Rosary is here in full — 243 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table. "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly. "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night. And the concert-room is to be a bower of roses. We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
Chapter 3 of The Rosary is here in full — 243 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a framework that supports climbing plants
From this reading “And the concert-room is to be a bower of roses.”
in a breathless manner
From this reading “"There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.”
a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
From this reading “We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'”
have a celebration
From this reading “We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'”
past form of “plump” — drop sharply
From this reading “JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.”
sweet fleshy red fruit
From this reading “JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.”
plural of “volunteer” — (military) a person who freely enlists for service
From this reading “JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.”
used when the people spoken to are both doing and receiving the action
From this reading “"Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.”
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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 the concert-room is to be a bower of roses.
(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 "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
a container that is usually woven and has handles
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading And the concert-room is to be a bower of roses.
a framework that supports climbing plants
From this reading And the concert-room is to be a bower of roses.
in a breathless manner
From this reading "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And the concert-room is to be a bower of roses.
a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
From this reading We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
have a celebration
From this reading We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.
give help or assistance; be of service
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading And the concert-room is to be a bower of roses.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
From this reading We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.
past form of “plump” — drop sharply
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
on the contrary
From this reading "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.
plural of “rose” — any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.
sweet fleshy red fruit
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
in or at that place or location
From this reading "There, good people!" she said, rather breathlessly.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And the concert-room is to be a bower of roses.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
plural of “volunteer” — (military) a person who freely enlists for service
From this reading JANE VOLUNTEERS The duchess plumped down her basket in the middle of the strawberry table.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading We will call it 'LA FETE DES ROSES.'
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
used when the people spoken to are both doing and receiving the action
From this reading "Help yourselves, and let me see you all wearing roses to-night.
Chapter 3 of The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay holds 243 sentences, grouped into 49 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 243 sentences of The Rosary, unabridged, divided into 49 reading sections.
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