Chapter 15 of Discipline is here in full — 231 sentences across 47 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of Discipline is here in full — 231 sentences across 47 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_----And yet I breathed! But not the breath of human life! A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife. Alike all time! Abhorred all place!
Chapter 15 of Discipline is here in full — 231 sentences across 47 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.
inflected form of “abhor” — find repugnant
From this reading “Abhorred all place!”
equally
From this reading “Alike all time!”
the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
From this reading “But not the breath of human life!”
uttered without voice
From this reading “_----And yet I breathed!”
characteristic of humanity
From this reading “But not the breath of human life!”
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
From this reading “A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.”
lack of agreement or harmony
From this reading “A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.”
aroused to impatience or anger
From this reading “A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.”
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 “But not the breath of human life!”
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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 A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
inflected form of “abhor” — find repugnant
From this reading Abhorred all place!
equally
From this reading Alike all time!
(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 Alike all time!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _----And yet I breathed!
the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
From this reading But not the breath of human life!
uttered without voice
From this reading _----And yet I breathed!
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But not the breath of human life!
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
characteristic of humanity
From this reading But not the breath of human life!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _----And yet I breathed!
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading But not the breath of human life!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But not the breath of human life!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading But not the breath of human life!
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading Abhorred all place!
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
lack of agreement or harmony
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
aroused to impatience or anger
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading But not the breath of human life!
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading Alike all time!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife.
but in spite of that
From this reading _----And yet I breathed!
Chapter 15 of Discipline by Mary Brunton holds 231 sentences, grouped into 47 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 15 holds 231 sentences of Discipline, unabridged, divided into 47 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 15 of Discipline by Mary Brunton exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 231 sentences, grouped into 47 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 47 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 47 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 15 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 528 minutes of reading across 1270 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Discipline section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Discipline, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
