Chapter 8 of A Prisoner in Fairyland is here in full — 214 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of A Prisoner in Fairyland is here in full — 214 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
We are the stars which sing. We sing with our light. We are the birds of fire. We fly across the heaven. Our light is a star.
Chapter 8 of A Prisoner in Fairyland is here in full — 214 sentences across 43 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.
from one side of something to the other
From this reading “We fly across the heaven.”
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading “We are the birds of fire.”
start firing a weapon
From this reading “We are the birds of fire.”
travel through the air; be airborne
From this reading “We fly across the heaven.”
any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
From this reading “We fly across the heaven.”
deliver by singing
From this reading “We are the stars which sing.”
(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading “Our light is a star.”
plural of “star” — (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading “We are the stars which sing.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Our light is a star.
from one side of something to the other
From this reading We fly across the heaven.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading We are the stars which sing.
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading We are the birds of fire.
start firing a weapon
From this reading We are the birds of fire.
travel through the air; be airborne
From this reading We fly across the heaven.
any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
From this reading We fly across the heaven.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Our light is a star.
of comparatively little physical weight or density
From this reading We sing with our light.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading We are the birds of fire.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading We sing with our light.
deliver by singing
From this reading We are the stars which sing.
(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading Our light is a star.
plural of “star” — (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading We are the stars which sing.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading We are the stars which sing.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We are the stars which sing.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading We are the stars which sing.
in the company of; together with
From this reading We sing with our light.
Chapter 8 of A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood holds 214 sentences, grouped into 43 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 8 holds 214 sentences of A Prisoner in Fairyland, unabridged, divided into 43 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 214 sentences, grouped into 43 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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