Chapter 2 of The Triple Marriage is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Triple Marriage is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Trim You take me on my tender side. All right, I've got to tell you. The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us? Anna Not unless you speak loudly. Trim The devil!
Chapter 2 of The Triple Marriage is here in full — 429 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 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.
a former copper coin of Pakistan and India
From this reading “Anna Not unless you speak loudly.”
plural of “bitch” — an unpleasant difficulty
From this reading “The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?”
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
From this reading “Trim The devil!”
carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
From this reading “The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?”
with relatively high volume
From this reading “Anna Not unless you speak loudly.”
obsolete terms for legal insanity
From this reading “The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?”
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
From this reading “Trim You take me on my tender side.”
remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
From this reading “Trim You take me on my tender side.”
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.
(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 All right, I've got to tell you.
a former copper coin of Pakistan and India
From this reading Anna Not unless you speak loudly.
plural of “bitch” — an unpleasant difficulty
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
From this reading Trim The devil!
carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading All right, I've got to tell you.
highest in quality
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading All right, I've got to tell you.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
with relatively high volume
From this reading Anna Not unless you speak loudly.
obsolete terms for legal insanity
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
the force of workers available
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
no person; not anyone
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Anna Not unless you speak loudly.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
precisely, exactly
From this reading All right, I've got to tell you.
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
express in speech
From this reading Anna Not unless you speak loudly.
carry out
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
express in words
From this reading All right, I've got to tell you.
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading All right, I've got to tell you.
remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
except if; if not
From this reading Anna Not unless you speak loudly.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The greatest men engage in madness for these little bitches.-- Nobody can hear us?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Trim You take me on my tender side.
Chapter 2 of The Triple Marriage by Néricault Destouches holds 429 sentences, grouped into 86 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 2 holds 429 sentences of The Triple Marriage, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
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