Chapter 39 of Self-Raised is here in full — 453 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 39 of Self-Raised is here in full — 453 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HOME AGAIN. Home again! home again! From a foreign shore! And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more. Music sweet! music soft!
Chapter 39 of Self-Raised is here in full — 453 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
plural of “fill” — a quantity sufficient to satisfy
From this reading “And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.”
of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
From this reading “From a foreign shore!”
express greetings upon meeting someone
From this reading “And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.”
the emotion of great happiness
From this reading “And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.”
an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
From this reading “Music sweet! music soft!”
the land along the edge of a body of water
From this reading “From a foreign shore!”
yielding readily to pressure or weight
From this reading “Music sweet! music soft!”
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading “Music sweet! music soft!”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading From a foreign shore!
anew
From this reading HOME AGAIN.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
plural of “fill” — a quantity sufficient to satisfy
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
From this reading From a foreign shore!
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading From a foreign shore!
express greetings upon meeting someone
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading HOME AGAIN.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
the emotion of great happiness
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
From this reading Music sweet! music soft!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
on one occasion
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
the land along the edge of a body of water
From this reading From a foreign shore!
yielding readily to pressure or weight
From this reading Music sweet! music soft!
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading Music sweet! music soft!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
in the company of; together with
From this reading And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
Chapter 39 of Self-Raised by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth holds 453 sentences, grouped into 91 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 39 holds 453 sentences of Self-Raised, unabridged, divided into 91 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 39 of Self-Raised by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 453 sentences, grouped into 91 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 91 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 91 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 39 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 600 minutes of reading across 2308 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Self-Raised section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Self-Raised, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
