Chapter 19 of Diana is here in full — 449 sentences across 90 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XIX
Chapter 19 of Diana is here in full — 449 sentences across 90 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
OUT OF HUMDRUM. Warm, how good and warm! but empty. Perfectly empty. Perfectly still. Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
Chapter 19 of Diana is here in full — 449 sentences across 90 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.
at or in or to any place
From this reading “Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.”
make void or empty of contents
From this reading “Warm, how good and warm! but empty.”
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
From this reading “OUT OF HUMDRUM.”
no person; not anyone
From this reading “Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.”
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “Perfectly empty.”
plural of “pew” — long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
From this reading “Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.”
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
From this reading “Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.”
capable of being seen; or open to easy view
From this reading “Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.”
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 “Perfectly still.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Warm, how good and warm! but empty.
at or in or to any place
From this reading Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Warm, how good and warm! but empty.
make void or empty of contents
From this reading Warm, how good and warm! but empty.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Warm, how good and warm! but empty.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Warm, how good and warm! but empty.
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
From this reading OUT OF HUMDRUM.
no person; not anyone
From this reading Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading OUT OF HUMDRUM.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading OUT OF HUMDRUM.
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading Perfectly empty.
plural of “pew” — long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
From this reading Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
From this reading Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
not in physical motion
From this reading Perfectly still.
capable of being seen; or open to easy view
From this reading Empty pews, and empty pulpit; nobody, not a head visible anywhere.
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
From this reading Warm, how good and warm! but empty.
Chapter 19 of Diana by Susan Warner holds 449 sentences, grouped into 90 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 19 holds 449 sentences of Diana, unabridged, divided into 90 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 19 of Diana by Susan Warner exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 449 sentences, grouped into 90 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 90 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 90 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 19 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 1811 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Diana section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Diana, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
