Chapter 25 of Original Plays, Second Series is here in full — 396 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 25 of Original Plays, Second Series is here in full — 396 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Pol._ Tarantara! tarantara! _Pir._ Ha! ha! Ho! ho! So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps. Ha! ha! ho! ho!
Chapter 25 of Original Plays, Second Series is here in full — 396 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
From this reading “So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.”
a social unit living together
From this reading “So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.”
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
From this reading “So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.”
a person active in party politics
plural of “sleep” — a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading “So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.”
deeply or completely
From this reading “So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.”
during the time that
From this reading “So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.”
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.
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(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 So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day
From this reading _Pir._ Ha! ha!
a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
From this reading Ho! ho!
a social unit living together
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Pir._ Ha! ha!
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
a person active in party politics
From this reading _Pol._ Tarantara! tarantara!
plural of “sleep” — a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
deeply or completely
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
in a stealthy manner
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Pol._ Tarantara! tarantara!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
during the time that
From this reading So stealthily the pirate creeps While all the household soundly sleeps.
Chapter 25 of Original Plays, Second Series by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert holds 396 sentences, grouped into 80 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 25 holds 396 sentences of Original Plays, Second Series, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 25 of Original Plays, Second Series by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 396 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 80 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 25 can be played aloud in United States English.
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