Chapter 1 of Moo cow tales is here in full — 277 sentences across 56 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Moo cow tales is here in full — 277 sentences across 56 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales BY ROSAMUND NESBIT BLAND. ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY. _LONDON_: ERNEST NISTER. _NEW YORK_: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
Chapter 1 of Moo cow tales is here in full — 277 sentences across 56 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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lacking taste or flavor or tang
From this reading “BY ROSAMUND NESBIT BLAND.”
past form of “display” — to show, make visible or apparent
From this reading “Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales”
having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
From this reading “ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.”
past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of
From this reading “ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.”
a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
From this reading “Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales”
make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
From this reading “Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales”
United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828)
From this reading “ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.”
the words of something written
From this reading “Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales”
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 “ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.”
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at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales
lacking taste or flavor or tang
From this reading BY ROSAMUND NESBIT BLAND.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading BY ROSAMUND NESBIT BLAND.
an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
From this reading _NEW YORK_: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
female of domestic cattle: "“moo-cow” is a child's term"
From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales
past form of “display” — to show, make visible or apparent
From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales
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From this reading _NEW YORK_: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body
From this reading ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.
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From this reading _LONDON_: ERNEST NISTER.
having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
From this reading ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.
past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of
From this reading ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.
a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales
the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
From this reading _LONDON_: ERNEST NISTER.
make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
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From this reading BY ROSAMUND NESBIT BLAND.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading _NEW YORK_: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
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From this reading _LONDON_: ERNEST NISTER.
a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
From this reading _NEW YORK_: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BY ROSAMUND NESBIT BLAND.
United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828)
From this reading ILLUSTRATED BY E. STUART HARDY.
plural of “tale” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales
the words of something written
From this reading Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Moo Cow Tales
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading _NEW YORK_: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
Chapter 1 of Moo cow tales by Rosamund E. Nesbit (Rosamund Edith Nesbit) Bland holds 277 sentences, grouped into 56 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 1 holds 277 sentences of Moo cow tales, unabridged, divided into 56 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Moo cow tales by Rosamund E. Nesbit (Rosamund Edith Nesbit) Bland exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 277 sentences, grouped into 56 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 56 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 56 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.
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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 23 minutes of reading across 56 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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