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Chapter XVII
It was night. Yvonne lay wide awake. A suffused sound of breathing filled the air. Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness. The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.””
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.””
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.””
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.””
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.””
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.”
a formal word for “on”
From this reading “Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
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From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
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From this reading Yvonne lay wide awake.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was night.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Yvonne lay wide awake.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was night.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A suffused sound of breathing filled the air.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Now and then a moan or a smothered cry of pain broke sharply upon the stillness.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was night.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Yvonne lay wide awake.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The woman in the adjacent bed began to murmur broken words in her sleep: “For the children’s sake, Joe--my poor little children--I wish we was all dead.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Yvonne lay wide awake.
