Chapter 21 of Minnie is here in full — 36 sentences across 8 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 21 of Minnie is here in full — 36 sentences across 8 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
TROUBLE FOR MINNIE. As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move. The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her. What could this mean? Had the grass feet?
Chapter 21 of Minnie is here in full — 36 sentences across 8 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
From this reading “The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.”
plural of “blade” — especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
From this reading “The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.”
shoot down, of birds
From this reading “As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “What could this mean?”
-ing form of “meditate” — reflect deeply on a subject
From this reading “As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.”
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.”
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading “The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.”
a source of difficulty
From this reading “TROUBLE FOR MINNIE.”
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In this reading “The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.”
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
plural of “blade” — especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading What could this mean?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
plural of “foot” — the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
From this reading Had the grass feet?
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading TROUBLE FOR MINNIE.
shoot down, of birds
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Had the grass feet?
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
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 The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading What could this mean?
-ing form of “meditate” — reflect deeply on a subject
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading TROUBLE FOR MINNIE.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
above and across; more than
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
happening unexpectedly
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading As Minnie sat meditating, suddenly the grass about her seemed to move.
a source of difficulty
From this reading TROUBLE FOR MINNIE.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading The long blades bent this way and that, and shook their dew-drops over her.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What could this mean?
Chapter 21 of Minnie by C. S. (Caroline Snowden) Guild holds 36 sentences, grouped into 8 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 21 holds 36 sentences of Minnie, unabridged, divided into 8 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 21 of Minnie by C. S. (Caroline Snowden) Guild exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 36 sentences, grouped into 8 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 8 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 8 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 21 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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About 99 minutes of reading across 240 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Minnie, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
