Chapter 7 of Cicely is here in full — 275 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Cicely is here in full — 275 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SOME ARE WISE, SOME OTHERWISE. à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
Chapter 7 of Cicely is here in full — 275 sentences across 55 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
From this reading “à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?””
plural of “le” — a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
From this reading “à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?””
in other respects or ways
From this reading “SOME ARE WISE, SOME OTHERWISE.”
(ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
From this reading “à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?””
having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
From this reading “SOME ARE WISE, SOME OTHERWISE.”
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the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading SOME ARE WISE, SOME OTHERWISE.
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
plural of “le” — a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
in other respects or ways
From this reading SOME ARE WISE, SOME OTHERWISE.
(ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading SOME ARE WISE, SOME OTHERWISE.
the act of dressing and preparing yourself
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
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From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
From this reading SOME ARE WISE, SOME OTHERWISE.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading à quoi bon avoir une jolie figure et une délicieuse toilette, si on ne les montre pas?”
Chapter 7 of Cicely by Mrs. Molesworth holds 275 sentences, grouped into 55 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 7 holds 275 sentences of Cicely, unabridged, divided into 55 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Cicely by Mrs. Molesworth exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 275 sentences, grouped into 55 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 55 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 55 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 7 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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About 600 minutes of reading across 1766 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Cicely section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 30 chapters of Cicely to begin.
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Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in Cicely, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
