Chapter 12 of The Three Just Men is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Three Just Men is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“I understand all right,” she said. “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk? This place is getting on my nerves already.” “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady. I myself will accompany you.”
Chapter 12 of The Three Just Men is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
be present or associated with an event or entity
From this reading “I myself will accompany you.””
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
From this reading ““To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.”
the act of acquiring something
From this reading “This place is getting on my nerves already.””
hear with intention
From this reading ““Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?”
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
From this reading ““To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.”
an uneasy psychological state
From this reading “This place is getting on my nerves already.””
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
From this reading ““I understand all right,” she said.”
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading ““Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?”
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 ““To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.”
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 “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
be present or associated with an event or entity
From this reading I myself will accompany you.”
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading “I understand all right,” she said.
prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
the act of acquiring something
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
the act of departing
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I understand all right,” she said.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
a polite name for any woman
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
hear with intention
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading I myself will accompany you.”
an uneasy psychological state
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
precisely, exactly
From this reading “I understand all right,” she said.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “I understand all right,” she said.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “I understand all right,” she said.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This place is getting on my nerves already.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
From this reading “I understand all right,” she said.
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
at the time that
From this reading “Listen, Oberzohn: when am I going out for a walk?
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading I myself will accompany you.”
in the company of; together with
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “To-night you shall have exercise with the lovely lady.
Chapter 12 of The Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace holds 404 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 12 holds 404 sentences of The Three Just Men, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 404 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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