Chapter 1 of Saxe Holm's Stories First Series is here in full — 431 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Saxe Holm's Stories First Series is here in full — 431 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Content. Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She? The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry. Part I. When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
Chapter 1 of Saxe Holm's Stories First Series is here in full — 431 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “dancer” — a performer who dances professionally
From this reading “The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.”
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
From this reading “Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?”
(Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)
From this reading “The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.”
the main good female character in a work of fiction
From this reading “When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.”
possessive form of “miller” — United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
From this reading “Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?”
past form of “name” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.”
an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
From this reading “When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.”
the property of being smooth and shiny
From this reading “When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.”
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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 When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
a youthful male person
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
From this reading Content.
plural of “dancer” — a performer who dances professionally
From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
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From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
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From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
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From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
(Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)
From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
a young female
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
the main good female character in a work of fiction
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
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From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Part I.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded
From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
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From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
possessive form of “miller” — United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
past form of “name” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
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From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
something determined in relation to something that includes it
From this reading Part I.
the property of being smooth and shiny
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
at the time that
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa.
belonging to which person
From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading Draxy Miller's Dowry The Elder's Wife Whose Wife Was She?
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
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From this reading The One-Legged Dancers How One Woman Kept Her Husband Esther Wynn's Love-Letters Draxy Miller's Dowry.
Chapter 1 of Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson holds 431 sentences, grouped into 87 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 431 sentences of Saxe Holm's Stories First Series, unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
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