Chapter 5 of Becket and other plays is here in full — 397 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Becket and other plays is here in full — 397 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
LOUIS. The holy Thomas! Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God. HENRY. Ay, ay, good brother, They call you the Monk-King.
Chapter 5 of Becket and other plays is here in full — 397 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the male ruler of an empire
From this reading “Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.”
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading “Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.”
a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
From this reading “HENRY.”
a sacred place of pilgrimage
From this reading “The holy Thomas!”
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)
From this reading “LOUIS.”
fraught with danger
From this reading “Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.”
the head of the Roman Catholic Church
From this reading “Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.”
United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)
From this reading “The holy Thomas!”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ay, ay, good brother, They call you the Monk-King.
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading Ay, ay, good brother, They call you the Monk-King.
the male ruler of an empire
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Ay, ay, good brother, They call you the Monk-King.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
From this reading HENRY.
a sacred place of pilgrimage
From this reading The holy Thomas!
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)
From this reading LOUIS.
the force of workers available
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ay, ay, good brother, They call you the Monk-King.
fraught with danger
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
participate in games or sport
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
the head of the Roman Catholic Church
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The holy Thomas!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Ay, ay, good brother, They call you the Monk-King.
United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)
From this reading The holy Thomas!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Brother, you have traffick'd Between the Emperor and the Pope, between The Pope and Antipope--a perilous game For men to play with God.
Chapter 5 of Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson holds 397 sentences, grouped into 80 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 5 holds 397 sentences of Becket and other plays, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 397 sentences, grouped into 80 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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