Chapter 6 of Every Man out of His Humour is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Every Man out of His Humour is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
FAST. Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo. DELI. And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks. MACI.
Chapter 6 of Every Man out of His Humour is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the child of your aunt or uncle
From this reading “And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks.”
a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
From this reading “DELI.”
quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
From this reading “FAST.”
originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
From this reading “Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.”
the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
From this reading “Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks.
the child of your aunt or uncle
From this reading And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks.
a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
From this reading DELI.
quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
From this reading FAST.
originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
From this reading Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MACI.
the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
From this reading Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.
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From this reading And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks.
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From this reading Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.
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From this reading And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.
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From this reading Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.
Chapter 6 of Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson holds 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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.
Chapter 6 holds 401 sentences of Every Man out of His Humour, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 401 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.
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