Chapter 14 of Queen Mary is here in full — 382 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 14 of Queen Mary is here in full — 382 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HAROLD. Not mean To make our England Norman. EDWARD. There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold. EDITH.
Chapter 14 of Queen Mary is here in full — 382 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)
From this reading “EDWARD.”
a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading “Not mean To make our England Norman.”
treated with dislike or contempt
From this reading “There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.”
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading “There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “Not mean To make our England Norman.”
United States operatic soprano (born in 1945)
From this reading “Not mean To make our England Norman.”
plural of “saint” — a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
From this reading “There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.”
an old word for “you”, as the object, speaking to one person
From this reading “There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.”
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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 There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading EDITH.
King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)
From this reading EDWARD.
a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading Not mean To make our England Norman.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading HAROLD.
treated with dislike or contempt
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
engage in
From this reading Not mean To make our England Norman.
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading Not mean To make our England Norman.
United States operatic soprano (born in 1945)
From this reading Not mean To make our England Norman.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Not mean To make our England Norman.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading Not mean To make our England Norman.
plural of “saint” — a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
an old word for “you”, as the object, speaking to one person
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Not mean To make our England Norman.
which person or people
From this reading There spake Godwin, Who hated all the Normans; but their Saints Have heard thee, Harold.
Chapter 14 of Queen Mary by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson holds 382 sentences, grouped into 77 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 14 holds 382 sentences of Queen Mary, unabridged, divided into 77 reading sections.
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