Chapter 6 of The Tunnel is here in full — 543 sentences across 109 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Tunnel is here in full — 543 sentences across 109 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station. Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green.... Something had happened to it. It was not beautiful; or anything. It was not anything....
Chapter 6 of The Tunnel is here in full — 543 sentences across 109 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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slightly wet
From this reading “Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.”
extreme fatigue
From this reading “Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....”
deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
From this reading “Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....”
filled or abounding with fog or mist
From this reading “Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....”
a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
From this reading “Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.”
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
From this reading “Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....”
a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
From this reading “Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.”
made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
From this reading “Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.”
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 “Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....”
In this reading “Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.”
be oriented in a certain direction
In this reading “Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....”
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 Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
from one side of something to the other
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
any thing at all
From this reading It was not beautiful; or anything.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading It was not beautiful; or anything.
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
slightly wet
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
the property created by the space between two objects or points
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
extreme fatigue
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Something had happened to it.
past form of “happen” — come to pass
From this reading Something had happened to it.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Something had happened to it.
past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
filled or abounding with fog or mist
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It was not beautiful; or anything.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading It was not beautiful; or anything.
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
a thing, without saying which
From this reading Something had happened to it.
a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Something had happened to it.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was not beautiful; or anything.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Shivering with exhaustion, she looked across at the early morning distance, misty black and faint misty green....
made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
From this reading Miriam sat on a damp wooden seat at the station.
Chapter 6 of The Tunnel by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson holds 543 sentences, grouped into 109 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 6 holds 543 sentences of The Tunnel, unabridged, divided into 109 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of The Tunnel by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 543 sentences, grouped into 109 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 109 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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