Chapter 29 of Ewing's Lady is here in full — 191 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXIX
Chapter 29 of Ewing's Lady is here in full — 191 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes. The air softened. The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt. In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment. It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
Chapter 29 of Ewing's Lady is here in full — 191 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/38 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
the act of waking
From this reading “THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.”
past form of “crumble” — fall apart
From this reading “THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.”
(of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form
From this reading “THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.”
weak from exhaustion
From this reading “THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.”
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
From this reading “The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.”
plural of “hillside” — the side or slope of a hill
From this reading “The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.”
putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
From this reading “In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.”
toned down
From this reading “The air softened.”
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.
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.
advanced in years; (“aged” is pronounced as two syllables)
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
From this reading The air softened.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
the act of waking
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
completely unclothed
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
past form of “crumble” — fall apart
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
(of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
weak from exhaustion
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
opinion or judgment
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
mat together and make felt-like
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
any creature of exceptional size
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
plural of “hillside” — the side or slope of a hill
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
in a languid and lethargic manner
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
located far away spatially
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
move hurridly
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
done under pressure
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
past form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
toned down
From this reading The air softened.
in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
plural of “stream” — a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
From this reading The streams rushed full, the southern hillsides showed bare and gaunt.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading In the lake cabin they felt aged by their imprisonment.
a Caucasian
From this reading THE AWAKENING The white giant, sun-stricken, drooping languidly, crumbled and dissolved before their eyes.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading It had been so long, so remote from the world rush.
Chapter 29 of Ewing's Lady by Harry Leon Wilson holds 191 sentences, grouped into 39 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 29 holds 191 sentences of Ewing's Lady, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 29 of Ewing's Lady by Harry Leon Wilson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 191 sentences, grouped into 39 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 39 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 39 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 29 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.
Common questions about reading Ewing's Lady by Harry Leon Wilson on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 5729 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #32988 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #32988, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 477 minutes of reading across 1146 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Ewing's Lady section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 32 chapters of Ewing's Lady to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in Ewing's Lady, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
