Chapter 1 of Ghosts and Family Legends is here in full — 1069 sentences across 214 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Ghosts and Family Legends is here in full — 1069 sentences across 214 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS. A Volume for Christmas. Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c. FIRST PART. ROUND THE FIRE.
Chapter 1 of Ghosts and Family Legends is here in full — 1069 sentences across 214 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading “A Volume for Christmas.”
a social unit living together
From this reading “GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS.”
start firing a weapon
From this reading “ROUND THE FIRE.”
plural of “ghost” — a mental representation of some haunting experience
From this reading “GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS.”
plural of “legend” — a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
From this reading “GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS.”
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
From this reading “Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.”
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading “ROUND THE FIRE.”
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
From this reading “A Volume for Christmas.”
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.
In this reading “FIRST PART.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 A Volume for Christmas.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS.
a woman author
From this reading Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.
a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
From this reading Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading A Volume for Christmas.
a social unit living together
From this reading GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS.
start firing a weapon
From this reading ROUND THE FIRE.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading FIRST PART.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading A Volume for Christmas.
plural of “ghost” — a mental representation of some haunting experience
From this reading GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS.
plural of “legend” — a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
From this reading GHOSTS AND FAMILY LEGENDS.
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
From this reading Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.
something determined in relation to something that includes it
From this reading FIRST PART.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading ROUND THE FIRE.
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
From this reading Authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ROUND THE FIRE.
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
From this reading A Volume for Christmas.
Chapter 1 of Ghosts and Family Legends by Catherine Crowe holds 1069 sentences, grouped into 214 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 1 holds 1069 sentences of Ghosts and Family Legends, unabridged, divided into 214 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Ghosts and Family Legends by Catherine Crowe exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 1069 sentences, grouped into 214 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 214 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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