Chapter 37 of The Witch's Head is here in full — 376 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 37 of The Witch's Head is here in full — 376 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about? Let us try and discover. Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long. They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed. At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
Chapter 37 of The Witch's Head is here in full — 376 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
From this reading “They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.”
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
From this reading “Let us try and discover.”
having or involving the use of hands
From this reading “At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.”
referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)
From this reading “They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.”
take somebody somewhere
From this reading “They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.”
diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
From this reading “At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.”
being or feeling set or kept apart from others
From this reading “They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.”
make an effort or attempt
From this reading “Let us try and discover.”
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 “Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long.”
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about?
anew
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
(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 HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Let us try and discover.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about?
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about?
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about?
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
From this reading Let us try and discover.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
having or involving the use of hands
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about?
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT How did it all come about?
referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
take somebody somewhere
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading Let us try and discover.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
and nothing more
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
above and across; more than
From this reading At breakfast-time he led him back again, and handed him over to Dorothy for the day.
being or feeling set or kept apart from others
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long.
make an effort or attempt
From this reading Let us try and discover.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Let us try and discover.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Dorothy and Ernest were together all day long.
at the time that
From this reading They only separated when Mazooku came to lead the latter off to bed.
Chapter 37 of The Witch's Head by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard holds 376 sentences, grouped into 76 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 37 holds 376 sentences of The Witch's Head, unabridged, divided into 76 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 37 of The Witch's Head by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 376 sentences, grouped into 76 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 76 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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