Chapter 10 of King--of the Khyber Rifles is here in full — 301 sentences across 61 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of King--of the Khyber Rifles is here in full — 301 sentences across 61 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long! (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow. Ye haste? The sap stirs now, ye say? Ye feel the pulse of spring?
Chapter 10 of King--of the Khyber Rifles is here in full — 301 sentences across 61 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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briefly shut the eyes
From this reading “(Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.”
turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold
From this reading “(Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.”
(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
From this reading “Ye feel the pulse of spring?”
deplete
From this reading “(Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.”
plural of “shriek” — sharp piercing cry
From this reading “(Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.”
plural of “sleep” — a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading “(Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.”
resembling steel as in hardness
From this reading “(Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.”
plural of “stir” — a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
From this reading “The sap stirs now, ye say?”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
briefly shut the eyes
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
From this reading Ye feel the pulse of spring?
turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
From this reading Ye haste?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long!
plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land
From this reading Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long!
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading The sap stirs now, ye say?
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Ye feel the pulse of spring?
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long!
above and across; more than
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
From this reading Ye feel the pulse of spring?
deplete
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
express in words
From this reading The sap stirs now, ye say?
plural of “shriek” — sharp piercing cry
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
plural of “sleep” — a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
inflected form of “sleep” — be asleep
From this reading Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long!
precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
the season of growth
From this reading Ye feel the pulse of spring?
plural of “star” — (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
resembling steel as in hardness
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
plural of “stir” — a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
From this reading The sap stirs now, ye say?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Long slept the Heart o' the Hills, oh, long!
past form of “watch” — look attentively
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
at the time that
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
which person or people
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading (Ye who have watched, ye know!) As sap sleeps in the deodars When winter shrieks and steely stars Blink over frozen snow.
Chapter 10 of King--of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy holds 301 sentences, grouped into 61 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.
Chapter 10 holds 301 sentences of King--of the Khyber Rifles, unabridged, divided into 61 reading sections.
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