Chapter 1 of One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York is here in full — 205 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York is here in full — 205 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams! Good old New York, as per schedule.
Chapter 1 of One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York is here in full — 205 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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see with attention
From this reading “"There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!”
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading “"There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!”
plural of “dream” — a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
From this reading “"There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!”
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading “Good old New York, as per schedule.”
for each
From this reading “Good old New York, as per schedule.”
a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
From this reading “Good old New York, as per schedule.”
a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
From this reading “"There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!”
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 “Good old New York, as per schedule.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Good old New York, as per schedule.
see with attention
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
plural of “dream” — a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Good old New York, as per schedule.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading Good old New York, as per schedule.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading Good old New York, as per schedule.
for each
From this reading Good old New York, as per schedule.
a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
From this reading Good old New York, as per schedule.
a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
in or at that place or location
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
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 Good old New York, as per schedule.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams!
Chapter 1 of One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy holds 205 sentences, grouped into 41 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 205 sentences of One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York, unabridged, divided into 41 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 205 sentences, grouped into 41 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.
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