Chapter 20 of Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls is here in full — 364 sentences across 73 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 20 of Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls is here in full — 364 sentences across 73 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SALLY. Lively, Tibbie! Miss Catherine has got back. We must be packing off home. I declare I lost sight of the time.
Chapter 20 of Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls is here in full — 364 sentences across 73 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)
From this reading “Miss Catherine has got back.”
state emphatically and authoritatively
From this reading “I declare I lost sight of the time.”
full of life and energy
From this reading “Lively, Tibbie!”
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading “I declare I lost sight of the time.”
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading “Miss Catherine has got back.”
any material used especially to protect something
From this reading “We must be packing off home.”
witty remark
From this reading “SALLY.”
an instance of visual perception
From this reading “I declare I lost sight of the time.”
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In this reading “I declare I lost sight of the time.”
recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
In this reading “Miss Catherine has got back.”
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in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Miss Catherine has got back.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading We must be packing off home.
first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)
From this reading Miss Catherine has got back.
state emphatically and authoritatively
From this reading I declare I lost sight of the time.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Miss Catherine has got back.
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Miss Catherine has got back.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading We must be packing off home.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I declare I lost sight of the time.
full of life and energy
From this reading Lively, Tibbie!
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading I declare I lost sight of the time.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading Miss Catherine has got back.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading We must be packing off home.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I declare I lost sight of the time.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading We must be packing off home.
any material used especially to protect something
From this reading We must be packing off home.
witty remark
From this reading SALLY.
an instance of visual perception
From this reading I declare I lost sight of the time.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I declare I lost sight of the time.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Lively, Tibbie!
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading I declare I lost sight of the time.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We must be packing off home.
Chapter 20 of Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls by Elsie Hobart Carter holds 364 sentences, grouped into 73 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 20 holds 364 sentences of Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls, unabridged, divided into 73 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 20 of Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls by Elsie Hobart Carter exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 364 sentences, grouped into 73 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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