Chapter 1 of Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts is here in full — 455 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts is here in full — 455 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Ariadne _in Mantua_, _A Romance in Five Acts, by Vernon Lee. Oxford: B.H. Blackwell 50 and 51 Broad Street. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company. A.D. MCMIII. Octavo.
Chapter 1 of Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts is here in full — 455 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome
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beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth
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Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
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a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans
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United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
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loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries
United States actor (1914-1998)
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a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
From this reading “Oxford: B.H. Blackwell 50 and 51 Broad Street.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
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a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome
From this reading Ariadne _in Mantua_, _A Romance in Five Acts, by Vernon Lee.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Oxford: B.H. Blackwell 50 and 51 Broad Street.
beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth
From this reading Ariadne _in Mantua_, _A Romance in Five Acts, by Vernon Lee.
aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
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having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
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showing who or what does the action
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an institution created to conduct business
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a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
From this reading A.D. MCMIII.
the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
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a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe
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Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
From this reading London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
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a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans
From this reading London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company.
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
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the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
From this reading London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company.
loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries
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United States actor (1914-1998)
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the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
From this reading Octavo.
a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
From this reading Oxford: B.H. Blackwell 50 and 51 Broad Street.
a relationship between two lovers
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a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
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Chapter 1 of Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts by Vernon Lee holds 455 sentences, grouped into 91 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 455 sentences of Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts, unabridged, divided into 91 reading sections.
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