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Chapter 3 of Le Morte Darthur is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died. Chap. xii. How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him. Chap. xiii. How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
Chapter 3 of Le Morte Darthur is here in full — 298 sentences across 60 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “accord” — go together
From this reading “How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.”
(plural) the lay members of a male religious order
From this reading “How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.”
past form of “deliver” — deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
From this reading “How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.”
a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
From this reading “How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.”
plural of “knight” — originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
From this reading “How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.”
United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
From this reading “How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.”
a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet
From this reading “How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.”
people who have been slain (as in battle)
From this reading “How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.”
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From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
past form of “accord” — go together
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
(plural) the lay members of a male religious order
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
a boy or man
From this reading Chap. xii.
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
past form of “deliver” — deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
past form of “die” — pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
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From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
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used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
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From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
plural of “knight” — originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
term of address for a man
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
people who have been slain (as in battle)
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
a male human offspring
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women
From this reading How queen Morgan le fay made great sorrow for the death of Accolon, and how she stole away the scabbard from Arthur.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
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From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading How Morgan would have slain Sir Uriens her husband, and how Sir Ewain her son saved him.
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
From this reading Chap. xii.
the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one
From this reading Chap. xiii.
Chapter 3 of Le Morte Darthur by Thomas, Sir, -1471 Malory holds 298 sentences, grouped into 60 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 3 holds 298 sentences of Le Morte Darthur, unabridged, divided into 60 reading sections.
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