Chapter 4 of Daniel Deronda is here in full — 491 sentences across 99 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Daniel Deronda is here in full — 491 sentences across 99 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“_Perigot_. As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_. Hey, ho, bonnilasse! _P_. She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
Chapter 4 of Daniel Deronda is here in full — 491 sentences across 99 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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very pleasing to the eye
From this reading “As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.”
the organ of sight
From this reading “She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.”
past form of “pass” — go across or through
From this reading “As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.”
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at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
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From this reading Hey, ho, bonnilasse!
very pleasing to the eye
From this reading As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.
the organ of sight
From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
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From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
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From this reading Hey, ho, bonnilasse!
a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
From this reading Hey, ho, bonnilasse!
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From this reading As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
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 _P_.
past form of “pass” — go across or through
From this reading As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.
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From this reading “_Perigot_.
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From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.
a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
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From this reading As the bonny lasse passed by, _Willie_.
in the company of; together with
From this reading She roode at me with glauncing eye, _W_.
Chapter 4 of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot holds 491 sentences, grouped into 99 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 4 holds 491 sentences of Daniel Deronda, unabridged, divided into 99 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 491 sentences, grouped into 99 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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