Chapter 9 of Deborah is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of Deborah is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said: "Forgive me, Captain Dion! I have wronged you. I have been blind! I am blind still!"
Chapter 9 of Deborah is here in full — 420 sentences across 84 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.
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
From this reading “I have been blind!”
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading “"Forgive me, Captain Dion!”
relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
From this reading “With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:”
stop blaming or grant forgiveness
From this reading “"Forgive me, Captain Dion!”
destroyed or killed
From this reading “With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:”
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading “With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:”
not in physical motion
From this reading “I am blind still!"”
past form of “wrong” — treat unjustly; do wrong to
From this reading “I have wronged you.”
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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading I am blind still!"
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
the past participle of “be”
From this reading I have been blind!
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
From this reading I have been blind!
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading "Forgive me, Captain Dion!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Forgive me, Captain Dion!
relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
stop blaming or grant forgiveness
From this reading "Forgive me, Captain Dion!
destroyed or killed
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading I have wronged you.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I have wronged you.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Forgive me, Captain Dion!
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
not in physical motion
From this reading I am blind still!"
in the company of; together with
From this reading With all hauteur gone, she extended her hand and said:
past form of “wrong” — treat unjustly; do wrong to
From this reading I have wronged you.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I have wronged you.
Chapter 9 of Deborah by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow holds 420 sentences, grouped into 84 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 9 holds 420 sentences of Deborah, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Deborah by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 420 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 555 minutes of reading across 1334 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Deborah, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
