Chapter 9 of Downstream is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of Downstream is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“That is too hard and bright,” he muttered. “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig. Take something more difficult and more gloomy.” And Hedvig read on. She did not know why herself.
Chapter 9 of Downstream is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
From this reading ““That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.”
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
From this reading “Take something more difficult and more gloomy.””
depressingly dark
From this reading “Take something more difficult and more gloomy.””
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
From this reading ““That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.”
past form of “mutter” — talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
From this reading ““That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.”
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading “And Hedvig read on.”
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading ““There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.”
a successful ending of a struggle or contest
From this reading ““There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.”
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 ““That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.”
In this reading “She did not know why herself.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading She did not know why herself.
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
From this reading Take something more difficult and more gloomy.”
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
depressingly dark
From this reading Take something more difficult and more gloomy.”
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading She did not know why herself.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading She did not know why herself.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading Take something more difficult and more gloomy.”
to a great degree or extent
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
past form of “mutter” — talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading She did not know why herself.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading And Hedvig read on.
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading And Hedvig read on.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She did not know why herself.
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading Take something more difficult and more gloomy.”
carry out
From this reading Take something more difficult and more gloomy.”
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
in or at that place or location
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading “That is too hard and bright,” he muttered.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
a successful ending of a struggle or contest
From this reading “There is too much victory for us two, Sister Hedvig.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading She did not know why herself.
Chapter 9 of Downstream by Sigfrid Siwertz holds 412 sentences, grouped into 83 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 412 sentences of Downstream, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Downstream by Sigfrid Siwertz exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 412 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 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 9 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 1883 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Downstream, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
