Chapter 23 of Moonglade is here in full — 218 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXIII
Chapter 23 of Moonglade is here in full — 218 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all. “I have always loved you! You only! You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!” Marguerite laughed.
Chapter 23 of Moonglade is here in full — 218 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/43 · 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.
round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
From this reading “Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.”
third-person singular of “confound” — be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
From this reading “Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.”
of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven
From this reading “Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.”
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading “Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.”
advanced in complexity or elaboration
From this reading “You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!””
a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
From this reading “Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.”
hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
From this reading “You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!””
tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
From this reading “Marguerite laughed.”
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 ““I have always loved you!”
In this reading “You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!””
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
Having no one else present.
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading “I have always loved you!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
third-person singular of “confound” — be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
at any time
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “I have always loved you!
any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
any place of pain and turmoil
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
advanced in complexity or elaboration
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I have always loved you!
a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
past form of “laugh” — produce laughter
From this reading Marguerite laughed.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
held dear
From this reading “I have always loved you!
tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
From this reading Marguerite laughed.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
not any; not one
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
and nothing more
From this reading You only!
from a time in the past until now
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Heaven, and Hell, and this earthly ball, And Jealousy confounds them all.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading You alone, ever since you were a little baby no higher than my knee!”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “I have always loved you!
Chapter 23 of Moonglade by Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen holds 218 sentences, grouped into 44 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 23 holds 218 sentences of Moonglade, unabridged, divided into 44 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 23 of Moonglade by Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 218 sentences, grouped into 44 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 44 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 44 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 23 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 469 minutes of reading across 1127 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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