Chapter 7 of The Sick-a-Bed Lady is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of The Sick-a-Bed Lady is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Drew laughed in spite of himself. "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?" Mimicry was his one talent. "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?" Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
Chapter 7 of The Sick-a-Bed Lady is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/84 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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give advice to
From this reading “"Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?"”
plural of “brow” — the part of the face above the eyes
From this reading “Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.”
marked by extreme and violent energy
From this reading “Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.”
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
From this reading “Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.”
the act of mimicking; imitative behavior
From this reading “Mimicry was his one talent.”
belonging to or inherited from one's father
From this reading “Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.”
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
From this reading “Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.”
natural abilities or qualities
From this reading “Mimicry was his one talent.”
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 “Drew laughed in spite of himself.”
a totalitarian leader and invader of privacy
In this reading “"Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
from one side of something to the other
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
give advice to
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?"
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?"
jutting or overhanging
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
plural of “brow” — the part of the face above the eyes
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
From this reading Drew laughed in spite of himself.
opinion or judgment
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
marked by extreme and violent energy
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading Drew laughed in spite of himself.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Mimicry was his one talent.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Drew laughed in spite of himself.
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
past form of “laugh” — produce laughter
From this reading Drew laughed in spite of himself.
take in marriage
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?"
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?"
the act of mimicking; imitative behavior
From this reading Mimicry was his one talent.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Drew laughed in spite of himself.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Mimicry was his one talent.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
belonging to or inherited from one's father
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
participate in games or sport
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
feeling a need to see others suffer
From this reading Drew laughed in spite of himself.
successive (without a break)
From this reading Instantly his fine, straight brows came beetling down across his eyes in a fierce paternal scrutiny.
natural abilities or qualities
From this reading Mimicry was his one talent.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?"
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother and advise you to marry me?"
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Play I was your Father or your Big Brother?"
Chapter 7 of The Sick-a-Bed Lady by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott holds 420 sentences, grouped into 84 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 7 holds 420 sentences of The Sick-a-Bed Lady, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of The Sick-a-Bed Lady by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 420 sentences, grouped into 84 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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