Chapter 33 of Deirdre is here in full — 80 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 33 of Deirdre is here in full — 80 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham. “The girl is ruined.” “You saw her?” “Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red. One would pity her, master.
Chapter 33 of Deirdre is here in full — 80 sentences across 16 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.
plural of “cheek” — either side of the face below the eyes
From this reading ““Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.”
a young female
From this reading ““The girl is ruined.””
not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
From this reading ““Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.”
an artist of consummate skill
From this reading ““It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.”
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
From this reading “One would pity her, master.”
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
From this reading ““Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.”
destroyed physically or morally
From this reading ““The girl is ruined.””
cut with a saw
From this reading ““You saw her?””
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.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
plural of “cheek” — either side of the face below the eyes
From this reading “Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.
opinion or judgment
From this reading “Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.
a young female
From this reading “The girl is ruined.”
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading “You saw her?”
not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
From this reading “Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
an artist of consummate skill
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading One would pity her, master.
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
From this reading One would pity her, master.
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
From this reading “Her cheeks are hollow and her eyes are red.
destroyed physically or morally
From this reading “The girl is ruined.”
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
cut with a saw
From this reading “You saw her?”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “The girl is ruined.”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading One would pity her, master.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “It is as you thought, master,” said Lavarcham.
Chapter 33 of Deirdre by James Stephens holds 80 sentences, grouped into 16 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 33 holds 80 sentences of Deirdre, unabridged, divided into 16 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 33 of Deirdre by James Stephens exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 80 sentences, grouped into 16 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 16 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 16 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 33 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 257 minutes of reading across 619 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Deirdre section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Deirdre, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
