Chapter 2 of Saint Abe and His Seven Wives is here in full — 623 sentences across 125 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Saint Abe and His Seven Wives is here in full — 623 sentences across 125 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
There's liquor coming--meat as well. All welcome! We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor; Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land. The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
Chapter 2 of Saint Abe and His Seven Wives is here in full — 623 sentences across 125 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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see with attention
From this reading “The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!”
a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
From this reading “The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!”
plural of “keep” — the financial means whereby one lives
From this reading “Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.”
an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
From this reading “There's liquor coming--meat as well.”
the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
From this reading “There's liquor coming--meat as well.”
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading “The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!”
move with force
From this reading “We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;”
a branch of the Tai languages
From this reading “Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.”
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push out of the way
In this reading “We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
(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 All welcome!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading There's liquor coming--meat as well.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
see with attention
From this reading The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading There's liquor coming--meat as well.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
coins made of gold
From this reading The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
From this reading The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
plural of “keep” — the financial means whereby one lives
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
the land on which real estate is located
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
From this reading There's liquor coming--meat as well.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
From this reading There's liquor coming--meat as well.
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
To move from a closed position.
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
deserving or inciting pity
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
move with force
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
From this reading The land of honey you behold-- Honey and milk--silver and gold!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There's liquor coming--meat as well.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
a branch of the Tai languages
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We keep open door-- Ah, _we_ don't push away the poor;
accept gladly
From this reading All welcome!
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading There's liquor coming--meat as well.
which person or people
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Tho' he's a fool, you understand, Who keeps poor long in this here land.
Chapter 2 of Saint Abe and His Seven Wives by Robert Williams Buchanan holds 623 sentences, grouped into 125 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 2 holds 623 sentences of Saint Abe and His Seven Wives, unabridged, divided into 125 reading sections.
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