Chapter 4 of Witch of the Glens is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Witch of the Glens is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk. “You have kept us waiting long enough! Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?” “What message?” asked Kelpie blankly. Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
Chapter 4 of Witch of the Glens is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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according with custom or propriety
From this reading ““Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.”
in a blank and uncomprehending manner
From this reading ““What message?” asked Kelpie blankly.”
past form of “blaze” — shine brightly and intensively
From this reading “Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.”
quick and energetic
From this reading ““Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.”
a feeling of intense anger
From this reading “Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.”
state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
From this reading “Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.”
a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading “Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?””
tropical Asian starlings
From this reading ““Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.”
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 “Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.”
In this reading ““You have kept us waiting long enough!”
In this reading ““Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.”
In this reading “Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “What message?” asked Kelpie blankly.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
according with custom or propriety
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
in a blank and uncomprehending manner
From this reading “What message?” asked Kelpie blankly.
past form of “blaze” — shine brightly and intensively
From this reading Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
quick and energetic
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
From this reading “You have kept us waiting long enough!
opinion or judgment
From this reading Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
a feeling of intense anger
From this reading Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “You have kept us waiting long enough!
state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
From this reading Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
(Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
From this reading “What message?” asked Kelpie blankly.
(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded
From this reading “You have kept us waiting long enough!
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 “You have kept us waiting long enough!
a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
tropical Asian starlings
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
in the near future
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
happening unexpectedly
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading “Come away, then,” ordered Mina, suddenly becoming brisk.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “You have kept us waiting long enough!
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading “You have kept us waiting long enough!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What message?” asked Kelpie blankly.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why weren’t you coming as soon as you got my message?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading Mina’s eyes blazed with fury and humiliation.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You have kept us waiting long enough!
Chapter 4 of Witch of the Glens by Sally Watson holds 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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 4 holds 427 sentences of Witch of the Glens, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Witch of the Glens by Sally Watson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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 86 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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