Chapter 10 of Legend is here in full — 435 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Legend is here in full — 435 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding. “Now listen, Mother! It’s no use waiting. Come upstairs with me. She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.”
Chapter 10 of Legend is here in full — 435 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/87 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
changed in form or character without becoming something else
From this reading “She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.””
hear with intention
From this reading ““Now listen, Mother!”
a person who requires medical care
From this reading “Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.”
On the present night.
From this reading “She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.””
stubbornly unyielding
From this reading “Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.”
on a floor above
From this reading “Come upstairs with me.”
the act of using
From this reading “It’s no use waiting.”
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading “It’s no use waiting.”
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 “Come upstairs with me.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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changed in form or character without becoming something else
From this reading She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.”
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come upstairs with me.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It’s no use waiting.
hear with intention
From this reading “Now listen, Mother!
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Come upstairs with me.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “Now listen, Mother!
not any; not one
From this reading It’s no use waiting.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading “Now listen, Mother!
a person who requires medical care
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.”
On the present night.
From this reading She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.”
stubbornly unyielding
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
on a floor above
From this reading Come upstairs with me.
the act of using
From this reading It’s no use waiting.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.”
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading It’s no use waiting.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Anita was quite patient with her, and quite unyielding.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She won’t——” her voice altered, “she can’t come tonight.”
Chapter 10 of Legend by Clemence Dane holds 435 sentences, grouped into 87 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 10 holds 435 sentences of Legend, unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Legend by Clemence Dane exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 435 sentences, grouped into 87 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 87 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 87 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.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 10 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.
Common questions about reading Legend by Clemence Dane on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 5077 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #63775 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #63775, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 423 minutes of reading across 1016 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Legend section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Legend, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
