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Good Stories for Great Holidays
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Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Chapter XX · Chapter 20

Chapter 20 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.
Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.
He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.
But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: Ah, Achelous!
While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!
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Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Chapter XX · Chapter 20

Chapter 20 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/40 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.
Line 2
Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.
Line 3
He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.
Line 4
But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: “Ah, Achelous!
Line 5
While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

All words in this reading · 46

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a

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

Achelous

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

Ah

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From this reading But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: “Ah, Achelous!

and

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

arts

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

body

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

But

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From this reading But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: “Ah, Achelous!

cradle

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

cried

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From this reading But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: “Ah, Achelous!

darted

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

did

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

escaped

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

folds

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

forked

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

frightful

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

from

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

have

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

he

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

Hercules

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From this reading But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: “Ah, Achelous!

hero

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

himself

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

his

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

hissings

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

I

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

in

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into

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

laughed

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From this reading But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: “Ah, Achelous!

magic

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

mockingly

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From this reading But Hercules laughed mockingly, and cried out: “Ah, Achelous!

my

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

out

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

recourse

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

serpent

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

serpents

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

strangled

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

the

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

Then

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

to

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From this reading Then did Achelous have recourse to his magic arts.

tongue

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

Transforming

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From this reading Transforming himself into a serpent he escaped from the hero.

twisted

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

two

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

While

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

winding

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

with

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From this reading He twisted his body into winding folds, and darted out his forked tongue with frightful hissings.

yet

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From this reading While yet in my cradle I strangled two serpents!

Chapter 20 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for by Frances Jenkins Olcott holds 201 sentences, grouped into 41 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.

What does chapter 20 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for contain?

Chapter 20 holds 201 sentences of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for, unabridged, divided into 41 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 20 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for by Frances Jenkins Olcott exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 201 sentences, grouped into 41 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.

How do I study chapter 20 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for?

Work through the 41 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 41 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.

Can chapter 20 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 20 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.

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Yes. All 5667 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #359 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #359, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 472 minutes of reading across 1134 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Words and structures a reader meets early in Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Produced
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Lough
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Stories
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Great
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