Chapter IX
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Page 155. _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop. Mus. O. T._, p. 75.
Choyce Drollery
Chapter IX
Chapter 9 of Choyce Drollery is here in full — 371 sentences across 75 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Page
155.
_Of
all
the
birds
that
ever
I
see._
With
the
music,
in
Chappell’s
_Pop.
Mus.
O.
T._,
p.
75.
LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
Editorial verification pending
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Choyce Drollery
Chapter IX
Chapter 9 of Choyce Drollery is here in full — 371 sentences across 75 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/74 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Page
155.
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_Of
all
the
birds
that
ever
I
see._
With
the
music,
in
Chappell’s
_Pop.
Line 3
Mus.
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O.
T._,
p.
/oʊ tiː piː/
Line 5
75.
Learner Dictionary
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plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading “_Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.”
at any time
From this reading “_Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.”
an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
From this reading “_Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.”
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
From this reading “Page 155.”
Pop
verb
US /pɑːp/
bulge outward
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
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155
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From this reading Page 155.
75
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From this reading 75.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
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plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
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Chappell's
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From this reading _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.
at any time
From this reading _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
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Musnoun
type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch
From this reading Mus.
an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
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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
From this reading O. T._, p.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.
a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
From this reading O. T._, p.
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
From this reading Page 155.
PopverbUS /pɑːp/
bulge outward
From this reading _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.
a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
From this reading O. T._, p.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Of all the birds that ever I see._ With the music, in Chappell’s _Pop.
in the company of; together with
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Chapter 9 of Choyce Drollery by Joseph Woodfall [Editor] Ebsworth holds 371 sentences, grouped into 75 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.
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Chapter 9 holds 371 sentences of Choyce Drollery, unabridged, divided into 75 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Choyce Drollery by Joseph Woodfall [Editor] Ebsworth exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 371 sentences, grouped into 75 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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