Chapter 7 of A Midsummer Night's Dream is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of A Midsummer Night's Dream is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Exit all but Wall. Thes. I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme. No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe. Exit Lyon, Thisbie, and Mooneshine.
Chapter 7 of A Midsummer Night's Dream is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 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.
plural of “ass” — the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
From this reading “No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.”
the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977
From this reading “No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.”
an opening that permits escape or release
From this reading “Exit all but Wall.”
large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male
From this reading “I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.”
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading “No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.”
a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon
From this reading “Exit Lyon, Thisbie, and Mooneshine.”
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
From this reading “Exit all but Wall.”
the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
From this reading “I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Exit all but Wall.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Exit Lyon, Thisbie, and Mooneshine.
plural of “ass” — the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Exit all but Wall.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
an opening that permits escape or release
From this reading Exit all but Wall.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon
From this reading Exit Lyon, Thisbie, and Mooneshine.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Exit Lyon, Thisbie, and Mooneshine.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
not any; not one
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Thes.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Exit Lyon, Thisbie, and Mooneshine.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
From this reading Exit all but Wall.
at the time that
From this reading No wonder, my Lord: one Lion may, when many Asses doe.
the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
From this reading I wonder if the Lion be to speake Deme.
Chapter 7 of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare holds 170 sentences, grouped into 34 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 7 holds 170 sentences of A Midsummer Night's Dream, unabridged, divided into 34 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 170 sentences, grouped into 34 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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