Chapter 1 of Strife: A Drama in Three Acts is here in full — 292 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Strife: A Drama in Three Acts is here in full — 292 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
ENID. It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it! [ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.] It'll ruin the Company. ANTHONY.
Chapter 1 of Strife: A Drama in Three Acts is here in full — 292 sentences across 59 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
From this reading “[ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]”
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading “It'll ruin the Company.”
a town in north central Oklahoma
From this reading “ENID.”
either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
From this reading “[ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]”
move something or somebody to a lower position
From this reading “[ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]”
United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
From this reading “It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!”
an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
From this reading “It'll ruin the Company.”
plural of “thrust” — the force used in pushing
From this reading “[ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
From this reading [ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading It'll ruin the Company.
a town in north central Oklahoma
From this reading ENID.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading [ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It'll ruin the Company.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
From this reading [ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]
move something or somebody to a lower position
From this reading [ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]
and nothing more
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading [ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]
United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
From this reading It'll ruin the Company.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It'll ruin the Company.
plural of “thrust” — the force used in pushing
From this reading [ANTHONY thrusts out his lower lip.]
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading It's only you and Roberts, Father, and you know it!
Chapter 1 of Strife: A Drama in Three Acts by John Galsworthy holds 292 sentences, grouped into 59 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 292 sentences of Strife: A Drama in Three Acts, unabridged, divided into 59 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Strife: A Drama in Three Acts by John Galsworthy exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 292 sentences, grouped into 59 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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