Chapter 29 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 is here in full — 373 sentences across 75 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 29 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 is here in full — 373 sentences across 75 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Enter_ BUTLER. BUT. Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them? ILF. O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
Chapter 29 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 is here in full — 373 sentences across 75 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table
From this reading “_Enter_ BUTLER.”
to come or go into
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading “Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?”
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading “O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.”
term of address for a man
From this reading “Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?”
an old word for “your”, speaking to one person
From this reading “O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.”
plural of “uncle” — the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading “Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?”
the words that are spoken
From this reading “O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading BUT.
a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table
From this reading _Enter_ BUTLER.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
to come or go into
From this reading _Enter_ BUTLER.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ILF.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
term of address for a man
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
an old word for “your”, speaking to one person
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
plural of “uncle” — the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
in the company of; together with
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
the words that are spoken
From this reading O butler, they have made good thy words, and I am ravished with them.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Now, sir, you have heard her uncles, and how do you like them?
Chapter 29 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 by Robert [Compiler] Dodsley holds 373 sentences, grouped into 75 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.
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