Chapter 5 of Windfalls is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Windfalls is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Milk? Yes. Would we come in? We entered. The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
Chapter 5 of Windfalls is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 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.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading “The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.”
neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
From this reading “The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.”
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading “The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.”
past form of “enter” — to come or go into
From this reading “We entered.”
a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
From this reading “The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.”
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading “Milk?”
relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
From this reading “The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.”
the act of passing from one state or place to the next
From this reading “The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.”
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 transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.”
to come or go into
In this reading “Would we come in?”
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.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Would we come in?
neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
past form of “enter” — to come or go into
From this reading We entered.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Would we come in?
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading Milk?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
the act of passing from one state or place to the next
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The transition from the glare of the sun to the cool shade of the cabin was delicious.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Would we come in?
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Would we come in?
an affirmative
From this reading Yes.
Chapter 5 of Windfalls by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner holds 413 sentences, grouped into 83 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 5 holds 413 sentences of Windfalls, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Windfalls by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 413 sentences, grouped into 83 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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