Chapter 1 of Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY. BY MARY D. BRINE. Baby, Bee, and Butterfly, Underneath the summer sky. Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather; Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;
Chapter 1 of Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 is here in full — 129 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading “BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY.”
any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
From this reading “BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY.”
plural of “bee” — any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
From this reading “Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;”
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading “Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;”
water containing salts
From this reading “BY MARY D. BRINE.”
flutter like a butterfly
From this reading “BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY.”
the rays of the sun
From this reading “Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;”
directly under, often hidden by what is above
From this reading “Baby, Bee, and Butterfly, Underneath the summer sky.”
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.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY.
any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
From this reading BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY.
plural of “bee” — any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
From this reading Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;
water containing salts
From this reading BY MARY D. BRINE.
flutter like a butterfly
From this reading BABY, BEE, AND BUTTERFLY.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading BY MARY D. BRINE.
a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
From this reading BY MARY D. BRINE.
the solid part of the earth's surface
From this reading Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;
the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
From this reading BY MARY D. BRINE.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;
above and across; more than
From this reading Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;
affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings
From this reading Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;
the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
From this reading Baby, Bee, and Butterfly, Underneath the summer sky.
the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
From this reading Baby, Bee, and Butterfly, Underneath the summer sky.
the rays of the sun
From this reading Sunshine over all around, In the sky, and on the ground;
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Baby, Bee, and Butterfly, Underneath the summer sky.
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;
directly under, often hidden by what is above
From this reading Baby, Bee, and Butterfly, Underneath the summer sky.
the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
From this reading Baby, bees, and birds together, Happy in the pleasant weather;
Chapter 1 of Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 by Various holds 129 sentences, grouped into 26 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 129 sentences of Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 129 sentences, grouped into 26 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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