Chapter 11 of Brigands of the Moon is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Brigands of the Moon is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Why, Anita!" I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?" A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again. "So that is it?" "Why, Anita!"
Chapter 11 of Brigands of the Moon is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
anew
From this reading “A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.”
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading “A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.”
a short vivid experience
From this reading “A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.”
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading “I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"”
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading “A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.”
talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
From this reading “I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"”
a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
From this reading “A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.”
extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
From this reading “A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.”
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 A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
anew
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Why, Anita!"
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
a short vivid experience
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
extinct flightless bird of New Zealand
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I heard Moa mutter, "So that is it?"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
From this reading A venomous flashing look--a shaft from me to Anita and back again.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading "Why, Anita!"
Chapter 11 of Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings holds 414 sentences, grouped into 83 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 11 holds 414 sentences of Brigands of the Moon, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 414 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 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 11 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.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Brigands of the Moon, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
