Chapter 11 of Bye-Ways is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Bye-Ways is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Anthony's thin, eager face brightened. A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks. "Then you would wish her ruin repaired." "Should I?" "If you love her, you must."
Chapter 11 of Bye-Ways is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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possessive form of “anthony” — Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
From this reading “Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.”
past form of “brighten” — make more cheerful through the use of color
From this reading “Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.”
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading “A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.”
having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
From this reading “Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.”
an alert and refreshed state
From this reading “A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.”
past form of “repair” — restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
From this reading “"Then you would wish her ruin repaired."”
an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
From this reading “"Then you would wish her ruin repaired."”
the sensation caused by heat energy
From this reading “A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.”
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In this reading “Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
possessive form of “anthony” — Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
From this reading Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.
past form of “brighten” — make more cheerful through the use of color
From this reading Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
plural of “cheek” — either side of the face below the eyes
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
From this reading Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.
opinion or judgment
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.
an alert and refreshed state
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading "Then you would wish her ruin repaired."
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Should I?"
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading "If you love her, you must."
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading "If you love her, you must."
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading "If you love her, you must."
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
past form of “repair” — restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
From this reading "Then you would wish her ruin repaired."
an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
From this reading "Then you would wish her ruin repaired."
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading "Should I?"
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading "Then you would wish her ruin repaired."
Having little thickness or extent.
From this reading Anthony's thin, eager face brightened.
the sensation caused by heat energy
From this reading A glow of warmth burned in his eyes and on his cheeks.
hope for; have a wish
From this reading "Then you would wish her ruin repaired."
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading "Then you would wish her ruin repaired."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Then you would wish her ruin repaired."
Chapter 11 of Bye-Ways by Robert Hichens 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 11 holds 408 sentences of Bye-Ways, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Bye-Ways by Robert Hichens 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.
Work through the 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 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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