Chapter 9 of The Wind Bloweth is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of The Wind Bloweth is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him.... Something terrible, sinister, cold. His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore.... He wanted to shred it from its hand.... Rip it like silk....
Chapter 9 of The Wind Bloweth is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/79 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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past form of “clasp” — hold firmly and tightly
From this reading “Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....”
a feeling of intense anger
From this reading “Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....”
tear or be torn violently
From this reading “Rip it like silk....”
a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
From this reading “He wanted to shred it from its hand....”
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading “Something terrible, sinister, cold.”
in a stupid manner
From this reading “Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....”
commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
From this reading “His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....”
inflected form of “tug” — pull hard
From this reading “His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....”
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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 Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
inflected form of “catch” — discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
past form of “clasp” — hold firmly and tightly
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
From this reading Something terrible, sinister, cold.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
feel or handle with the fingers
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
grant freedom to; free from confinement
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading He wanted to shred it from its hand....
a feeling of intense anger
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading He wanted to shred it from its hand....
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading He wanted to shred it from its hand....
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading He wanted to shred it from its hand....
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Rip it like silk....
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
past form of “look” — perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
past form of “pull” — cause to move by pulling
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
tear or be torn violently
From this reading Rip it like silk....
a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
From this reading He wanted to shred it from its hand....
a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
From this reading Rip it like silk....
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading Something terrible, sinister, cold.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading Something terrible, sinister, cold.
in a stupid manner
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
happening without warning or in a short space of time
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
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From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
causing fear or dread or terror
From this reading Something terrible, sinister, cold.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Stupidly he looked down at the clasped hands, and a sudden fury of fighting came on him....
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading He wanted to shred it from its hand....
commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
inflected form of “tug” — pull hard
From this reading His free hands caught the Syrian's little finger, tugged, pulled, bent, tore....
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading He wanted to shred it from its hand....
Chapter 9 of The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne holds 395 sentences, grouped into 79 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 9 holds 395 sentences of The Wind Bloweth, unabridged, divided into 79 reading sections.
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