Chapter 1 of Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales is here in full — 467 sentences across 94 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales is here in full — 467 sentences across 94 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
See https:// PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales. MRS. S. P. DOUGHTY. Boston: Nichols and Noyes.
Chapter 1 of Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales is here in full — 467 sentences across 94 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/93 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading “Boston: Nichols and Noyes.”
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading “PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.”
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading “MRS.”
English poet (1880-1958)
From this reading “Boston: Nichols and Noyes.”
the act of playing a musical instrument
From this reading “PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.”
the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas
From this reading “PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.”
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading “See https://”
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 “PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas 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.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading Boston: Nichols and Noyes.
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading S. P. DOUGHTY.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading See https://
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading MRS.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Boston: Nichols and Noyes.
English poet (1880-1958)
From this reading Boston: Nichols and Noyes.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.
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 S. P. DOUGHTY.
the act of playing a musical instrument
From this reading PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading S. P. DOUGHTY.
the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas
From this reading PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading See https://
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 PLAYING SANTA CLAUS, AND Other Christmas Tales.
Chapter 1 of Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales by Sarah P. (Sarah Parsons) Doughty holds 467 sentences, grouped into 94 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 467 sentences of Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales, unabridged, divided into 94 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales by Sarah P. (Sarah Parsons) Doughty exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 467 sentences, grouped into 94 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 94 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 94 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 1 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 159 minutes of reading across 382 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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