Chapter 5 of Sappho's Journal is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 5 of Sappho's Journal is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Why not?” “What about food? Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water. Sometimes we can’t land a fish.” A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
Chapter 5 of Sappho's Journal is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading “A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.”
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
From this reading “Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.”
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
From this reading “Sometimes we can’t land a fish.””
the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
From this reading “Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.”
restoring confidence and relieving anxiety
From this reading “A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.”
plural of “spoil” — (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
From this reading “Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.”
in a vague way
From this reading “A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.”
marked by wrinkles
From this reading “A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.”
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.
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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 Sometimes we can’t land a fish.”
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “What about food?
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Sometimes we can’t land a fish.”
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
From this reading Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
From this reading Sometimes we can’t land a fish.”
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
From this reading “What about food?
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
From this reading Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
the land on which real estate is located
From this reading Sometimes we can’t land a fish.”
the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
From this reading Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Why not?”
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.
restoring confidence and relieving anxiety
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always
From this reading Sometimes we can’t land a fish.”
plural of “spoil” — (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
From this reading Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
in a vague way
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading Food goes bad...our cheese spoils...our meat...our water.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Sometimes we can’t land a fish.”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What about food?
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading “Why not?”
marked by wrinkles
From this reading A smile wrinkled his face, as he hulked against the cabin wall, his smile vaguely reassuring.
Chapter 5 of Sappho's Journal by Paul Alexander Bartlett holds 440 sentences, grouped into 88 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 440 sentences of Sappho's Journal, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Sappho's Journal by Paul Alexander Bartlett exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 440 sentences, grouped into 88 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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