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Essays of Travel

Chapter X · Chapter 10

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For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.
The lanes were profoundly still.
They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.
And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.
This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.
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Essays of Travel

Chapter X · Chapter 10

Chapter 10 of Essays of Travel is here in full — 136 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/27 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.
Line 2
The lanes were profoundly still.
Line 3
They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.
Line 4
And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.
Line 5
This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

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a

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activity

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

and

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

as

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

at

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

be

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From this reading This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

been

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

before

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

but

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

came

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

constable

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From this reading This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

disagreeable

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disturb

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

dropping

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

eagerly

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

enough

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feeling

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

fellow-voyager

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fire

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

For

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

have

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

human

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I

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

isolation

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

it

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

lanes

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From this reading The lanes were profoundly still.

larks

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

less

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long

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

make

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

me

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

my

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

no

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From this reading This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

not

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

of

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

on

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

one

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

over

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

parish

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From this reading This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

person

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From this reading This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

profoundly

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From this reading The lanes were profoundly still.

proved

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From this reading This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

quicken

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

road

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

sad

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

saw

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

sign

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

singing

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

some

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

steps

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

still

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From this reading The lanes were profoundly still.

sunshine

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

than

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From this reading This fellow-voyager proved to be no less a person than the parish constable.

that

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

the

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

there

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

They

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

this

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

time

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

times

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

to

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

walked

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

was

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From this reading For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.

were

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From this reading The lanes were profoundly still.

when

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

would

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From this reading They would have been sad but for the sunshine and the singing of the larks.

yet

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From this reading And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

Chapter 10 of Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson holds 136 sentences, grouped into 28 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.

What does chapter 10 of Essays of Travel contain?

Chapter 10 holds 136 sentences of Essays of Travel, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 10 of Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 136 sentences, grouped into 28 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.

How do I study chapter 10 of Essays of Travel?

Work through the 28 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 28 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.

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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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How long does Essays of Travel take to read?

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Vocabulary met early in Essays of Travel

Words and structures a reader meets early in Essays of Travel, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Amateur
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Emigrant
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Clyde
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Sandy
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