Chapter 11 of The Sign of the Red Cross is here in full — 238 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of The Sign of the Red Cross is here in full — 238 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!" "Ruined! O father, how can that be? Methought you were a man of much substance. Mother always said so."
Chapter 11 of The Sign of the Red Cross is here in full — 238 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/47 · 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.
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading “Mother always said so."”
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “O father, how can that be?”
a young female
From this reading “"It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"”
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading “"It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"”
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “Mother always said so."”
deserving or inciting pity
From this reading “"It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"”
destroyed physically or morally
From this reading “"It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"”
the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
From this reading “Methought you were a man of much substance.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading Mother always said so."
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading O father, how can that be?
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading O father, how can that be?
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading O father, how can that be?
a young female
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O father, how can that be?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Methought you were a man of much substance.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading Mother always said so."
to a great degree or extent
From this reading Methought you were a man of much substance.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O father, how can that be?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Methought you were a man of much substance.
deserving or inciting pity
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
destroyed physically or morally
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Mother always said so."
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Mother always said so."
the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
From this reading Methought you were a man of much substance.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "It means that I am a ruined man, my poor girl!"
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Methought you were a man of much substance.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Methought you were a man of much substance.
Chapter 11 of The Sign of the Red Cross by Evelyn Everett-Green holds 238 sentences, grouped into 48 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 11 holds 238 sentences of The Sign of the Red Cross, unabridged, divided into 48 reading sections.
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