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Lilith: A Romance
Lilith: A Romance

Chapter XI · Chapter 11

Chapter 11 of Lilith: A Romance is here in full — 251 sentences across 51 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.
In a minute there were scores and scores about me.
I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.
They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.
Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.
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Lilith: A Romance

Chapter XI · Chapter 11

Chapter 11 of Lilith: A Romance is here in full — 251 sentences across 51 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/50 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.
Line 2
In a minute there were scores and scores about me.
Line 3
I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.
Line 4
They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.
Line 5
Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

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a

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

about

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From this reading In a minute there were scores and scores about me.

among

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

and

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

ankles

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From this reading “Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

are

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

as

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

asked

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From this reading “Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

at

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

been

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

between

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

big

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

blind

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

brushwood

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

but

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

called

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

came

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

clean

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

creeping

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

Do

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From this reading “Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

far

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

few

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

filled

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

found

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

from

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

giants

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

had

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

heard

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

I

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

In

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From this reading In a minute there were scores and scores about me.

just

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

laughed

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

left

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

like

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

Little

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

made

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

me

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

minute

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From this reading In a minute there were scores and scores about me.

moments

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

multitude

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

near

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

not

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

of

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

off

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

one

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From this reading “Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

Ones

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

out

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

presently

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

quite

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

rope

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From this reading “Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

said

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

scores

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From this reading In a minute there were scores and scores about me.

see

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

sheep-bells

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

signs

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

small

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

soon

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

spaces

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

that

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

the

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

themselves

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

there

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From this reading In a minute there were scores and scores about me.

they

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

tiny

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

to

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

told

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

too

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

trees

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

us

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From this reading “They are too blind to see us,” they said, and laughed like a multitude of sheep-bells.

voices

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

was

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

were

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From this reading In a minute there were scores and scores about me.

when

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

wind

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From this reading I made signs that the giants had but just left me, and were not far off; but they laughed, and told me the wind was quite clean.

work

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From this reading I had been at work but a few moments, when I heard small voices near me, and presently the Little Ones, as I soon found they called themselves, came creeping out from among the tiny trees that like brushwood filled the spaces between the big ones.

you

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From this reading “Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

your

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From this reading “Do you like that rope about your ankles?” asked one.

Chapter 11 of Lilith: A Romance by George MacDonald holds 251 sentences, grouped into 51 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.

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Chapter 11 holds 251 sentences of Lilith: A Romance, unabridged, divided into 51 reading sections.

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