Chapter 4 of Becket and other plays is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Becket and other plays is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
2ND BEGGAR. Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass? 1ST BEGGAR. Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her. Sitting hen!
Chapter 4 of Becket and other plays is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a pauper who lives by begging
From this reading “2ND BEGGAR.”
adult female chicken
From this reading “Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?”
the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
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have in common
From this reading “Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her.”
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
From this reading “Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?”
a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women
From this reading “Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?”
first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
From this reading “Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?”
possessive form of “widow” — a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
From this reading “Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?”
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From this reading 1ST BEGGAR.
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From this reading 2ND BEGGAR.
in or near a particular place or position
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a pauper who lives by begging
From this reading 2ND BEGGAR.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her.
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From this reading Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her.
adult female chicken
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belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
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the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium
From this reading 2ND BEGGAR.
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
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touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
have in common
From this reading Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 1ST BEGGAR.
a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person
From this reading Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her.
an old word for “your”, speaking to one person
From this reading Come, come! thou hadst thy share on her.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
at the time that
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
which person or people
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
possessive form of “widow” — a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
From this reading Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?
Chapter 4 of Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson holds 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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 4 holds 408 sentences of Becket and other plays, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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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