Chapter 16 of The shooting party is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of The shooting party is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“What a terrible woman!” Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette. “What a terrible woman! She's as bad as she's pretty!
Chapter 16 of The shooting party is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/80 · 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.
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading “She's as bad as she's pretty!”
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.”
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading “Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.”
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading “She's as bad as she's pretty!”
causing fear or dread or terror
From this reading ““What a terrible woman!””
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading “Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.”
spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
From this reading “Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.”
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading ““What a terrible woman!””
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.
bring forth, usually something desirable
In this reading “Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.”
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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 “What a terrible woman!”
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading She's as bad as she's pretty!
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading She's as bad as she's pretty!
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading She's as bad as she's pretty!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She's as bad as she's pretty!
causing fear or dread or terror
From this reading “What a terrible woman!”
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What a terrible woman!”
spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
From this reading Nadinka whispered to me every time Olga came up to our wagonette.
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading “What a terrible woman!”
Chapter 16 of The shooting party by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov holds 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 403 sentences of The shooting party, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 16 of The shooting party by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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