Chapter 25 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 is here in full — 393 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 25 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 is here in full — 393 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
W. SMALL. He shall do it, boy. _Enter_ Sir OLIVER _and fiddlers_. He shall do it, go fetch her, boy. Foot, my father.
Chapter 25 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 is here in full — 393 sentences across 79 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.
a youthful male person
From this reading “He shall do it, boy.”
to come or go into
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “Foot, my father.”
go or come after and bring or take back
From this reading “He shall do it, go fetch her, boy.”
plural of “fiddler” — a musician who plays the violin
the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
From this reading “Foot, my father.”
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
From this reading “_Enter_ Sir OLIVER _and fiddlers_.”
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “W. SMALL.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _Enter_ Sir OLIVER _and fiddlers_.
a youthful male person
From this reading He shall do it, boy.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading He shall do it, boy.
to come or go into
From this reading _Enter_ Sir OLIVER _and fiddlers_.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading Foot, my father.
go or come after and bring or take back
From this reading He shall do it, go fetch her, boy.
plural of “fiddler” — a musician who plays the violin
From this reading _Enter_ Sir OLIVER _and fiddlers_.
the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
From this reading Foot, my father.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading He shall do it, go fetch her, boy.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He shall do it, boy.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading He shall do it, go fetch her, boy.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading He shall do it, boy.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Foot, my father.
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
From this reading _Enter_ Sir OLIVER _and fiddlers_.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading He shall do it, boy.
term of address for a man
From this reading _Enter_ Sir OLIVER _and fiddlers_.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading W. SMALL.
a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
From this reading W. SMALL.
Chapter 25 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 by William Carew [Editor] Hazlitt holds 393 sentences, grouped into 79 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 25 holds 393 sentences of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10, unabridged, divided into 79 reading sections.
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