Chapter X of The Secret of Casa Grande, “Through the Mysterious Window,” is here in full — 203 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter X
Chapter X of The Secret of Casa Grande, “Through the Mysterious Window,” is here in full — 203 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop! Hush! There’s someone coming up the stairs.” “Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence? We haven’t washed a dish.”
Chapter X of The Secret of Casa Grande, “Through the Mysterious Window,” is here in full — 203 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading “Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!”
a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
From this reading “We haven’t washed a dish.””
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading ““Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence?”
become quiet or still; fall silent
From this reading “Hush!”
a person, without saying who
From this reading “There’s someone coming up the stairs.””
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading “There’s someone coming up the stairs.””
come to a halt, stop moving
From this reading “Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!”
clean by virtue of having been washed in water
From this reading “We haven’t washed a dish.””
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 We haven’t washed a dish.”
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading There’s someone coming up the stairs.”
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
From this reading We haven’t washed a dish.”
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence?
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
past form of “exclaim” — utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading “Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We haven’t washed a dish.”
become quiet or still; fall silent
From this reading Hush!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
a person, without saying who
From this reading There’s someone coming up the stairs.”
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading There’s someone coming up the stairs.”
come to a halt, stop moving
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
happening unexpectedly
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
express a supposition
From this reading “Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading There’s someone coming up the stairs.”
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There’s someone coming up the stairs.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading There’s someone coming up the stairs.”
clean by virtue of having been washed in water
From this reading We haven’t washed a dish.”
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We haven’t washed a dish.”
at the time that
From this reading Their dance came suddenly to an end when Peggy exclaimed, “Jo, stop!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Oh, do you suppose it’s Florence?
Chapter 10 of The Secret of Casa Grande by Helen Randolph holds 203 sentences, grouped into 41 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 10 holds 203 sentences of The Secret of Casa Grande, unabridged, divided into 41 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of The Secret of Casa Grande by Helen Randolph exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 203 sentences, grouped into 41 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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