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Lilith: A Romance
Lilith: A Romance

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of Lilith: A Romance is here in full — 127 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.
The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.
The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.
Here we are at last!” said the raven.
What a long way it is!
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Lilith: A Romance

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of Lilith: A Romance is here in full — 127 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/25 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.
Line 2
The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.
Line 3
The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.
Line 4
Here we are at last!” said the raven.
Line 5
What a long way it is!

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a

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

always

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

and

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

are

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From this reading “Here we are at last!” said the raven.

as

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

at

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From this reading “Here we are at last!” said the raven.

been

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

blew

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

but

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

cloud

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

cold

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

cottage

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

covered

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

descried

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

distance

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

down

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

dry

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

farthest

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

for

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

from

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

gray

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

had

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

he

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

heath

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

Here

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From this reading “Here we are at last!” said the raven.

I

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

if

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

in

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

is

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From this reading “What a long way it is!

it

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

last

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From this reading “Here we are at last!” said the raven.

little

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

long

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From this reading “What a long way it is!

looked

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

moorland

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

mosses

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

never

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

night

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

not

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

over

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

plants

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

raven

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From this reading “Here we are at last!” said the raven.

region

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

rocky

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

said

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From this reading “Here we are at last!” said the raven.

some

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

strangely

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

sun

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

the

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

time

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

walking

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

warm

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

was

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

way

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From this reading “What a long way it is!

We

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

What

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From this reading “What a long way it is!

when

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

where

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

wind

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From this reading The heath looked as if it had never been warm, and the wind blew strangely cold, as if from some region where it was always night.

with

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From this reading We had been for some time walking over a rocky moorland covered with dry plants and mosses, when I descried a little cottage in the farthest distance.

wrapt

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

yet

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From this reading The sun was not yet down, but he was wrapt in a gray cloud.

Chapter 5 of Lilith: A Romance by George MacDonald holds 127 sentences, grouped into 26 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.

What does chapter 5 of Lilith: A Romance contain?

Chapter 5 holds 127 sentences of Lilith: A Romance, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 5 of Lilith: A Romance by George MacDonald exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 127 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.

How do I study chapter 5 of Lilith: A Romance?

Work through the 26 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 26 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.

Can chapter 5 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 5 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.

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Is this the complete text of Lilith: A Romance?

Yes. All 5702 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #1640 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #1640, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 475 minutes of reading across 1141 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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