Chapter 11 of Esther Waters is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XI
Chapter 11 of Esther Waters is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart. Father! He don't hear us. He's gone a bit deaf of late years. Father!"
Chapter 11 of Esther Waters is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 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.
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading “He's gone a bit deaf of late years.”
lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
From this reading “He's gone a bit deaf of late years.”
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “"There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.”
destroyed or killed
From this reading “He's gone a bit deaf of late years.”
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading “He don't hear us.”
being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
From this reading “He's gone a bit deaf of late years.”
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading “"There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.”
a late time of life
From this reading “He's gone a bit deaf of late years.”
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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 He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
From this reading He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He don't hear us.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
destroyed or killed
From this reading He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He don't hear us.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading He don't hear us.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
From this reading He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading "There's father waiting for us in the spring-cart.
a late time of life
From this reading He's gone a bit deaf of late years.
Chapter 11 of Esther Waters by George Moore holds 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 11 holds 403 sentences of Esther Waters, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Esther Waters by George Moore exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 81 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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