Chapter 5 of Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2) is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2) is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
’I have nothing to forgive.’ ’Lean over me. I want to whisper. I don’t want the fellows to hear.’ She stooped with her face near his.
Chapter 5 of Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2) is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
plural of “fellow” — a boy or man
From this reading “I don’t want the fellows to hear.’”
stop blaming or grant forgiveness
From this reading “’I have nothing to forgive.’”
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading “I don’t want the fellows to hear.’”
to incline or bend from a vertical position
From this reading “’Lean over me.”
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading “She stooped with her face near his.”
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
From this reading “She stooped with her face near his.”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading “I want to whisper.”
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
From this reading “I want to whisper.”
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.
In this reading “’Lean over me.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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From this reading I don’t want the fellows to hear.’
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading She stooped with her face near his.
plural of “fellow” — a boy or man
From this reading I don’t want the fellows to hear.’
stop blaming or grant forgiveness
From this reading ’I have nothing to forgive.’
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading ’I have nothing to forgive.’
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading I don’t want the fellows to hear.’
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She stooped with her face near his.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading She stooped with her face near his.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading ’I have nothing to forgive.’
to incline or bend from a vertical position
From this reading ’Lean over me.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading ’Lean over me.
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading She stooped with her face near his.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading ’I have nothing to forgive.’
above and across; more than
From this reading ’Lean over me.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She stooped with her face near his.
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
From this reading She stooped with her face near his.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I don’t want the fellows to hear.’
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading ’I have nothing to forgive.’
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading I want to whisper.
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
From this reading I want to whisper.
in the company of; together with
From this reading She stooped with her face near his.
Chapter 5 of Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould holds 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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 5 holds 408 sentences of Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2), unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 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 5 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 302 minutes of reading across 727 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2) section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2), each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
