Chapter 6 of Our Village is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Our Village is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Another pond, and another noise of children. More sliding? Oh no! This is a sport of higher pretension. Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
Chapter 6 of Our Village is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/25 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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a region marking a boundary
From this reading “Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!”
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
From this reading “Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!”
an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources
From this reading “Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!”
a person who lives (or is located) near another
From this reading “Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!”
a small lake
From this reading “Another pond, and another noise of children.”
a false or unsupportable quality
From this reading “This is a sport of higher pretension.”
the sport of gliding on skates
From this reading “Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!”
being a smooth continuous motion
From this reading “More sliding?”
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 This is a sport of higher pretension.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Another pond, and another noise of children.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading Another pond, and another noise of children.
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
a region marking a boundary
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
plural of “child” — a young person of either sex
From this reading Another pond, and another noise of children.
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
four years of age
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
advanced in complexity or elaboration
From this reading This is a sport of higher pretension.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading This is a sport of higher pretension.
the emotion of great happiness
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
a commissioned military officer
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading More sliding?
a person who lives (or is located) near another
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
not any; not one
From this reading Oh no!
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
From this reading Another pond, and another noise of children.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Another pond, and another noise of children.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh no!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
have ownership or possession of
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
a small lake
From this reading Another pond, and another noise of children.
a false or unsupportable quality
From this reading This is a sport of higher pretension.
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
the sport of gliding on skates
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
being a smooth continuous motion
From this reading More sliding?
an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
From this reading This is a sport of higher pretension.
having a supporting base
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This is a sport of higher pretension.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
From this reading Our good neighbour, the lieutenant, skating, and his own pretty little boys, and two or three other four-year-old elves, standing on the brink in an ecstasy of joy and wonder!
Chapter 6 of Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford holds 125 sentences, grouped into 25 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 6 holds 125 sentences of Our Village, unabridged, divided into 25 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 125 sentences, grouped into 25 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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