Chapter 307 of Les Misérables is here in full — 75 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 307 of Les Misérables is here in full — 75 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius drew him aside with a shudder. “What are you doing here?” “Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?”
Chapter 307 of Les Misérables is here in full — 75 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
on or to one side
From this reading “Marius drew him aside with a shudder.”
a young person of either sex
From this reading ““Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?””
-ing form of “do” — engage in
From this reading ““What are you doing here?””
United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
From this reading “Marius drew him aside with a shudder.”
past form of “flock” — move as a crowd or in a group
From this reading “They flocked round Gavroche.”
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading “They flocked round Gavroche.”
shake, as from cold
From this reading “Marius drew him aside with a shudder.”
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading ““Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?””
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “They flocked round Gavroche.”
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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 Marius drew him aside with a shudder.
any thing at all
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “What are you doing here?”
on or to one side
From this reading Marius drew him aside with a shudder.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
a young person of either sex
From this reading “Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?”
-ing form of “do” — engage in
From this reading “What are you doing here?”
United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
From this reading Marius drew him aside with a shudder.
past form of “flock” — move as a crowd or in a group
From this reading They flocked round Gavroche.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They flocked round Gavroche.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading “What are you doing here?”
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Marius drew him aside with a shudder.
an expression of greeting
From this reading “Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Marius drew him aside with a shudder.
not any; not one
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading They flocked round Gavroche.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?”
shake, as from cold
From this reading Marius drew him aside with a shudder.
express in words
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?”
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They flocked round Gavroche.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading But he had no time to tell anything.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What are you doing here?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading Marius drew him aside with a shudder.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “What are you doing here?”
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading “Hullo!” said the child, “what are you doing here yourself?”
Chapter 307 of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo holds 75 sentences, grouped into 15 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 307 holds 75 sentences of Les Misérables, unabridged, divided into 15 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 307 of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 75 sentences, grouped into 15 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 15 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 15 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 307 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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