Chapter 11 of Fiesco is here in full — 431 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Fiesco is here in full — 431 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
ZIBO (to the attendants). Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains. (Some soldiers go.) FIESCO. Will they make me an incendiary?
Chapter 11 of Fiesco is here in full — 431 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/86 · 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.
get the meaning of something
From this reading “Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.”
plural of “attendant” — someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
From this reading “ZIBO (to the attendants).”
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading “Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.”
involving deliberate burning of property
From this reading “Will they make me an incendiary?”
engage in
From this reading “Will they make me an incendiary?”
plural of “soldier” — an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
From this reading “(Some soldiers go.)”
plural of “villain” — a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
From this reading “Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.”
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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 Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Will they make me an incendiary?
get the meaning of something
From this reading Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.
plural of “attendant” — someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
From this reading ZIBO (to the attendants).
send away towards a designated goal
From this reading Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading FIESCO.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading (Some soldiers go.)
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.
involving deliberate burning of property
From this reading Will they make me an incendiary?
engage in
From this reading Will they make me an incendiary?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Will they make me an incendiary?
plural of “soldier” — an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
From this reading (Some soldiers go.)
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading (Some soldiers go.)
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ZIBO (to the attendants).
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Will they make me an incendiary?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading ZIBO (to the attendants).
plural of “villain” — a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
From this reading Despatch a guard to apprehend the villains.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Will they make me an incendiary?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ZIBO (to the attendants).
Chapter 11 of Fiesco by Friedrich Schiller holds 431 sentences, grouped into 87 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 431 sentences of Fiesco, unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Fiesco by Friedrich Schiller exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 431 sentences, grouped into 87 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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