Chapter 3 of The taste of honey is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of The taste of honey is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure. She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_). Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace. Not many have written well both prose and verse. Calzini was quite mad over Sicily.
Chapter 3 of The taste of honey is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia
From this reading “Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.”
completely ordinary and unremarkable
From this reading “Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.”
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading “Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.”
a native or inhabitant of Italy
From this reading “Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.”
ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
From this reading “She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).”
the Italian region on the island of Sicily
From this reading “Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.”
literature in metrical form
From this reading “Not many have written well both prose and verse.”
third-person singular of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading “She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).”
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 “Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.”
In this reading “Calzini was quite mad over Sicily.”
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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 Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
in the past
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
the two together, not just one
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Calzini was quite mad over Sicily.
completely ordinary and unremarkable
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
a native or inhabitant of Italy
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
undertake a journey or trip
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
plural of “line” — a formation of people or things one beside another
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
roused to anger
From this reading Calzini was quite mad over Sicily.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
above and across; more than
From this reading Calzini was quite mad over Sicily.
plural of “place” — a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading Calzini was quite mad over Sicily.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
the Italian region on the island of Sicily
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
literature in metrical form
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Calzini was quite mad over Sicily.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Delightful poet that she is, with lines that flame in memory, her prose is commonplace.
third-person singular of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading She writes of this journey in a prose book called _Le Strade_ (_Streets_).
set down in writing in any of various ways
From this reading Not many have written well both prose and verse.
a late time of life
From this reading Ada Negri went to Sicily a few years ago, in a journey she made to Italian places of pleasure.
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