Chapter 24 of The Yellow Dove is here in full — 588 sentences across 118 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 24 of The Yellow Dove is here in full — 588 sentences across 118 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear. She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her. “Well, I’m damned!” English! “And the other?” she heard again.
Chapter 24 of The Yellow Dove is here in full — 588 sentences across 118 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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movement that causes the formation of a curve
From this reading “She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.”
expletives used informally as intensifiers
From this reading ““Well, I’m damned!””
the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
From this reading “HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.”
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading “English!”
plural of “face” — the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading “She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.”
(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
From this reading “HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.”
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
From this reading “She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.”
possessive form of “man” — an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
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 “She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.”
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 HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
anew
From this reading “And the other?” she heard again.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
movement that causes the formation of a curve
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
expletives used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “Well, I’m damned!”
the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading English!
plural of “face” — the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
the solid part of the earth's surface
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Well, I’m damned!”
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
possessive form of “man” — an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading “And the other?” she heard again.
above and across; more than
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
express in words
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
a formal word for “on”
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Well, I’m damned!”
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading She was lying upon the ground, and strange faces were bending over her.
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading HEADQUARTERS “A woman!” she heard a man’s voice say at her ear.
Chapter 24 of The Yellow Dove by George Gibbs holds 588 sentences, grouped into 118 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 24 holds 588 sentences of The Yellow Dove, unabridged, divided into 118 reading sections.
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