Chapter 23 of Eris is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXIII
Chapter 23 of Eris is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?” “Mr. Annan. Is Miss Odell at home?” “I’ll enquiah, suh. Please to hold the wiah.”
Chapter 23 of Eris is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/59 · 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.
past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading “Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?””
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading “Please to hold the wiah.””
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “Is Miss Odell at home?””
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading “Is Miss Odell at home?””
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading “Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?””
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading “Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?””
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.
a reception held in your own home
In this reading “Is Miss Odell at home?””
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From this reading “Mr. Annan.
past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Is Miss Odell at home?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I’ll enquiah, suh.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading Please to hold the wiah.”
where you live at a particular time
From this reading Is Miss Odell at home?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I’ll enquiah, suh.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading Is Miss Odell at home?”
a form of address for a man
From this reading “Mr. Annan.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Is Miss Odell at home?”
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I’ll enquiah, suh.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Please to hold the wiah.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Please to hold the wiah.”
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
which person or people
From this reading Hattie’s voice answered him: “Who is it, please?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Please to hold the wiah.”
Chapter 23 of Eris by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers holds 298 sentences, grouped into 60 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 23 holds 298 sentences of Eris, unabridged, divided into 60 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 23 of Eris by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 298 sentences, grouped into 60 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 60 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 60 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 23 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 1481 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Eris, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
