Chapter 1 of An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 is here in full — 343 sentences across 69 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 is here in full — 343 sentences across 69 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"I am." "What has brought you to Persia?" "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service." "Nothing else? Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
Chapter 1 of An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 is here in full — 343 sentences across 69 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 32/68 · 5 reading units · Lines 156–160
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
From this reading “Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.”
give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
From this reading “"The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."”
undergo or live through a difficult experience
From this reading “"The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."”
a state of high honor
From this reading “"The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."”
be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
From this reading “Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.”
an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
From this reading “"What has brought you to Persia?"”
open and genuine; not deceitful
From this reading “Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.”
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
From this reading “Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.”
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 "I am."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
weapons considered collectively
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
inflected form of “bring” — take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading "What has brought you to Persia?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Nothing else?
undergo or live through a difficult experience
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
a state of high honor
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "What has brought you to Persia?"
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I am."
be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
not one thing; not anything
From this reading "Nothing else?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
From this reading "What has brought you to Persia?"
To recall to mind.
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
work done by one person or group that benefits another
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
open and genuine; not deceitful
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Be sincere, and remember that one single lie may cost your life.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "What has brought you to Persia?"
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "What has brought you to Persia?"
hope for; have a wish
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "What has brought you to Persia?"
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "The glory of your name, Cambyses, and the wish to devote my arms and experience to your service."
Chapter 1 of An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers holds 343 sentences, grouped into 69 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 1 holds 343 sentences of An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07, unabridged, divided into 69 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 343 sentences, grouped into 69 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.
Work through the 69 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 69 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
Common questions about reading An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 920 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #5456 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #5456, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 76 minutes of reading across 184 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 3 chapters of An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
