Chapter 1 of Tell Me a Story is here in full — 449 sentences across 90 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Tell Me a Story is here in full — 449 sentences across 90 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth. ________________________________________________________________________ TELL ME A STORY, BY MRS MOLESWORTH. CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION. The children sat round me in the gloaming.
Chapter 1 of Tell Me a Story is here in full — 449 sentences across 90 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.
a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
From this reading “CHAPTER ONE.”
plural of “child” — a young person of either sex
From this reading “The children sat round me in the gloaming.”
the time of day immediately following sunset
From this reading “The children sat round me in the gloaming.”
the act of beginning something new
From this reading “INTRODUCTION.”
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading “Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.”
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading “The children sat round me in the gloaming.”
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading “The children sat round me in the gloaming.”
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading “Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.”
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.
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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 Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.
a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
From this reading CHAPTER ONE.
plural of “child” — a young person of either sex
From this reading The children sat round me in the gloaming.
the time of day immediately following sunset
From this reading The children sat round me in the gloaming.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The children sat round me in the gloaming.
the act of beginning something new
From this reading INTRODUCTION.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading CHAPTER ONE.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading The children sat round me in the gloaming.
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading The children sat round me in the gloaming.
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.
express in words
From this reading Tell me a Story, by Mrs Molesworth.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The children sat round me in the gloaming.
Chapter 1 of Tell Me a Story by Mrs. Molesworth holds 449 sentences, grouped into 90 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 1 holds 449 sentences of Tell Me a Story, unabridged, divided into 90 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Tell Me a Story by Mrs. Molesworth exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 449 sentences, grouped into 90 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 90 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 90 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 1 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 143 minutes of reading across 346 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Tell Me a Story section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Tell Me a Story, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
