Chapter 20 of The Woman Thou Gavest Me is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 20 of The Woman Thou Gavest Me is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions. Had my husband gone on a long voyage? Yes? Where to? The South.
Chapter 20 of The Woman Thou Gavest Me is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 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.
group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
From this reading “Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.”
past form of “follow” — to travel behind, go after, come after
From this reading “Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.”
to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (“further” is used more often than “farther” in this abstract sense)
From this reading “Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.”
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading “Had my husband gone on a long voyage?”
lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity
From this reading “Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.”
plural of “question” — an instance of questioning
From this reading “Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.”
the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading “The South.”
an act of traveling by water
From this reading “Had my husband gone on a long voyage?”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
From this reading Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
past form of “follow” — to travel behind, go after, come after
From this reading Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (“further” is used more often than “farther” in this abstract sense)
From this reading Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
destroyed or killed
From this reading Had my husband gone on a long voyage?
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Had my husband gone on a long voyage?
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading Had my husband gone on a long voyage?
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 Had my husband gone on a long voyage?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Had my husband gone on a long voyage?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Had my husband gone on a long voyage?
lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity
From this reading Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
plural of “question” — an instance of questioning
From this reading Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading The South.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The South.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then followed a further battery of perplexing questions.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Where to?
an act of traveling by water
From this reading Had my husband gone on a long voyage?
in or at the place that
From this reading Where to?
an affirmative
From this reading Yes?
Chapter 20 of The Woman Thou Gavest Me by Hall, Sir Caine holds 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 20 holds 410 sentences of The Woman Thou Gavest Me, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
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