Chapter 5 of Yuletide entertainments is here in full — 386 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Yuletide entertainments is here in full — 386 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MRS. R. Thank you; but I’d rather not. We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called. MRS. V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.
Chapter 5 of Yuletide entertainments is here in full — 386 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.”
devoid of good sense or judgment
From this reading “V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.”
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading “MRS.”
feeling great sexual desire
From this reading “V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.”
on the contrary
From this reading “R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.”
in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means
From this reading “We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.”
express gratitude or show appreciation to
From this reading “R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.”
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From this reading We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.
devoid of good sense or judgment
From this reading V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading MRS.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.
a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air
From this reading R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.
feeling great sexual desire
From this reading V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.
on the contrary
From this reading R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.
in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means
From this reading We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.
express gratitude or show appreciation to
From this reading R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.
a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt
From this reading V. Now, Mrs. Randy, don’t be foolish.
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From this reading We’d a-done somehow if you hadn’t called.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading R. Thank you; but I’d rather not.
Chapter 5 of Yuletide entertainments by Ellen M. (Ellen Melville) Willard holds 386 sentences, grouped into 78 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 386 sentences of Yuletide entertainments, unabridged, divided into 78 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Yuletide entertainments by Ellen M. (Ellen Melville) Willard exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 386 sentences, grouped into 78 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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