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What's Bred in the Bone

What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen is available here as the complete text, split into 1168 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #6010.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Academic course · 40 chapters

Course Syllabus

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What's Bred in the Bone

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  1. Chapter I 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 67 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 53 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL 20 readings five lines each Open chapter

This edition of What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #6010, divided into 40 chapters and 1168 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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Every sentence of What's Bred in the Bone can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #6010, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does What's Bred in the Bone take to read?

About 486 minutes of reading across 1168 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in What's Bred in the Bone

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Two's
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Company
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Engaged
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Debating
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