Chapter XVIII of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, “Father Superior at His Worst,” is here in full — 146 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XVIII
Chapter XVIII of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, “Father Superior at His Worst,” is here in full — 146 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change. The water lay all about them black and threatening. Land seemed miles away. Florence shook herself. Then she glanced up at the sun.
Chapter XVIII of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, “Father Superior at His Worst,” is here in full — 146 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
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cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
From this reading “The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.”
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading “Florence shook herself.”
past form of “glance” — throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading “Then she glanced up at the sun.”
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
From this reading “The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.”
plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
From this reading “Land seemed miles away.”
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading “Florence shook herself.”
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading “The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.”
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading “The water lay all about them black and threatening.”
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 “The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.”
In this reading “Then she glanced up at the sun.”
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.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading The water lay all about them black and threatening.
(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 The water lay all about them black and threatening.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The water lay all about them black and threatening.
past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Then she glanced up at the sun.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Land seemed miles away.
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading The water lay all about them black and threatening.
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading Florence shook herself.
past form of “glance” — throw a glance at; take a brief look at
From this reading Then she glanced up at the sun.
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading Florence shook herself.
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
the land on which real estate is located
From this reading Land seemed miles away.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading The water lay all about them black and threatening.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
From this reading Land seemed miles away.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading Land seemed miles away.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Then she glanced up at the sun.
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading Florence shook herself.
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then she glanced up at the sun.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading The water lay all about them black and threatening.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Then she glanced up at the sun.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading The water lay all about them black and threatening.
including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading The instant the sun left them the whole world appeared to change.
Chapter 18 of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell holds 146 sentences, grouped into 30 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 18 holds 146 sentences of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls, unabridged, divided into 30 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 18 of Third Warning: A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 146 sentences, grouped into 30 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.
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