Chapter II of Green Eyes, “The Lady of the Island,” is here in full — 108 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter II of Green Eyes, “The Lady of the Island,” is here in full — 108 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after. The trail was short. It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere. The moon painted it with a touch of silver. Florence swam steadily.
Chapter II of Green Eyes, “The Lady of the Island,” is here in full — 108 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/21 · 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.
past form of “drift” — be in motion due to some air or water current
From this reading “They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.”
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading “Florence swam steadily.”
the natural satellite of the Earth
From this reading “The moon painted it with a touch of silver.”
an insignificant place
From this reading “It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.”
coated with paint
From this reading “The moon painted it with a touch of silver.”
at a steady rate or pace
From this reading “Florence swam steadily.”
inflected form of “swim” — travel through water
From this reading “They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.”
a track or mark left by something that has passed
From this reading “They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.”
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 “They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.”
In this reading “The moon painted it with a touch of silver.”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
later than; following
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
past form of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
past form of “drift” — be in motion due to some air or water current
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
From this reading Florence swam steadily.
plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
the natural satellite of the Earth
From this reading The moon painted it with a touch of silver.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
an insignificant place
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The moon painted it with a touch of silver.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
coated with paint
From this reading The moon painted it with a touch of silver.
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading The trail was short.
a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
From this reading The moon painted it with a touch of silver.
at a steady rate or pace
From this reading Florence swam steadily.
inflected form of “swim” — travel through water
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It appeared to begin at nothing and end nowhere.
make physical contact with, come in contact with
From this reading The moon painted it with a touch of silver.
a track or mark left by something that has passed
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The trail was short.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
which person or people
From this reading They made a trail in the water, the two girls, one who swam and one who drifted after.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The moon painted it with a touch of silver.
Chapter 2 of Green Eyes by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell holds 108 sentences, grouped into 22 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 2 holds 108 sentences of Green Eyes, unabridged, divided into 22 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Green Eyes by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 108 sentences, grouped into 22 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 22 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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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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