Chapter 15 of Sparrows is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of Sparrows is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth! Oh, my tooth! Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?" Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious. "Wow!
Chapter 15 of Sparrows is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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run away quickly
From this reading “IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!”
popular aquarium fish
From this reading “Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"”
resisting control or authority
From this reading “Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.”
a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid
From this reading “IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!”
filled with or marked by tears
From this reading “Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.”
hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
From this reading “IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!”
plural of “watch” — a small portable timepiece
From this reading “IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!”
a joke that seems extremely funny
From this reading “"Wow!”
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 “IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!”
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 IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
From this reading Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
feeling or showing anger
From this reading Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.
terminate
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"
run away quickly
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
a person having kinship with another or others
From this reading Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"
popular aquarium fish
From this reading Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
resisting control or authority
From this reading Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.
plural of “shadow” — shade within clear boundaries
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
a short musical composition with words
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
filled with or marked by tears
From this reading Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"
hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
up to a particular time
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Bobbie, tearful and angry, was almost rebellious.
plural of “watch” — a small portable timepiece
From this reading IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT "Until the Day break and the shadows flee away,"--Song of Sol. iv, 6 "Oh, my tooth!
a joke that seems extremely funny
From this reading "Wow!
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading Mollie, hain't ther nawthin' ye kin do?"
Chapter 15 of Sparrows by Marie Coolidge-Rask holds 142 sentences, grouped into 29 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 15 holds 142 sentences of Sparrows, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 15 of Sparrows by Marie Coolidge-Rask exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 142 sentences, grouped into 29 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 29 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 29 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.
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