Chapter 3 of You Never Can Tell is here in full — 281 sentences across 57 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of You Never Can Tell is here in full — 281 sentences across 57 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
McCOMAS (trying to make peace). Come, Crampton: never mind. She's her father's daughter: that's all. MRS. CLANDON (with deep resentment).
Chapter 3 of You Never Can Tell is here in full — 281 sentences across 57 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.
a female human offspring
From this reading “She's her father's daughter: that's all.”
relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
From this reading “CLANDON (with deep resentment).”
possessive form of “father” — a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “She's her father's daughter: that's all.”
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading “Come, Crampton: never mind.”
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading “MRS.”
the state prevailing during the absence of war
From this reading “McCOMAS (trying to make peace).”
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
From this reading “CLANDON (with deep resentment).”
hard to endure
From this reading “McCOMAS (trying to make peace).”
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(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 She's her father's daughter: that's all.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading CLANDON (with deep resentment).
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come, Crampton: never mind.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Come, Crampton: never mind.
a female human offspring
From this reading She's her father's daughter: that's all.
relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
From this reading CLANDON (with deep resentment).
possessive form of “father” — a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading She's her father's daughter: that's all.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She's her father's daughter: that's all.
engage in
From this reading McCOMAS (trying to make peace).
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading McCOMAS (trying to make peace).
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading Come, Crampton: never mind.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading MRS.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading Come, Crampton: never mind.
the state prevailing during the absence of war
From this reading McCOMAS (trying to make peace).
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
From this reading CLANDON (with deep resentment).
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She's her father's daughter: that's all.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She's her father's daughter: that's all.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading McCOMAS (trying to make peace).
hard to endure
From this reading McCOMAS (trying to make peace).
in the company of; together with
From this reading CLANDON (with deep resentment).
Chapter 3 of You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw holds 281 sentences, grouped into 57 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 3 holds 281 sentences of You Never Can Tell, unabridged, divided into 57 reading sections.
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