Chapter 9 of Stepsons of Light is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter IX
Chapter 9 of Stepsons of Light is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Where will I report to you?" "You know Perrault's house?" "With trees all round, and a little vineyard? Just below the jail? Yes."
Chapter 9 of Stepsons of Light is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
at or to a lower level than something
From this reading “Just below the jail?”
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading “"You know Perrault's house?"”
a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
From this reading “Just below the jail?”
to give an account or representation of in words
From this reading “"Where will I report to you?"”
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading “"With trees all round, and a little vineyard?”
plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading “"With trees all round, and a little vineyard?”
a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced
From this reading “"With trees all round, and a little vineyard?”
an affirmative
From this reading “Yes."”
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 “"With trees all round, and a little vineyard?”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
(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 "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
at or to a lower level than something
From this reading Just below the jail?
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading "You know Perrault's house?"
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Where will I report to you?"
a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
From this reading Just below the jail?
and nothing more
From this reading Just below the jail?
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading "You know Perrault's house?"
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "You know Perrault's house?"
to give an account or representation of in words
From this reading "Where will I report to you?"
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Just below the jail?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Where will I report to you?"
plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced
From this reading "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
in or at the place that
From this reading "Where will I report to you?"
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading "Where will I report to you?"
in the company of; together with
From this reading "With trees all round, and a little vineyard?
an affirmative
From this reading Yes."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Where will I report to you?"
Chapter 9 of Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes holds 424 sentences, grouped into 85 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 9 holds 424 sentences of Stepsons of Light, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 424 sentences, grouped into 85 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 85 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 85 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 9 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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