Chapter 9 of The Adventures of Gerard is here in full — 198 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of The Adventures of Gerard is here in full — 198 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Have you flint and steel?” “It is here!” “Then I will light it to-night.” “I die happy to hear you say so. They shot me, Gerard.
Chapter 9 of The Adventures of Gerard is here in full — 198 sentences across 40 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.
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading ““I die happy to hear you say so.”
a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
From this reading ““Have you flint and steel?””
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading ““I die happy to hear you say so.”
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading ““I die happy to hear you say so.”
of comparatively little physical weight or density
From this reading ““Then I will light it to-night.””
express in words
From this reading ““I die happy to hear you say so.”
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading “They shot me, Gerard.”
an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
From this reading ““Have you flint and steel?””
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “Have you flint and steel?”
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading “I die happy to hear you say so.
a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
From this reading “Have you flint and steel?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They shot me, Gerard.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading “I die happy to hear you say so.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Have you flint and steel?”
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading “I die happy to hear you say so.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading “It is here!”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “Then I will light it to-night.”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “It is here!”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “It is here!”
of comparatively little physical weight or density
From this reading “Then I will light it to-night.”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading They shot me, Gerard.
express in words
From this reading “I die happy to hear you say so.
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading They shot me, Gerard.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “I die happy to hear you say so.
an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
From this reading “Have you flint and steel?”
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading “Then I will light it to-night.”
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They shot me, Gerard.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “I die happy to hear you say so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Then I will light it to-night.”
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading “Then I will light it to-night.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Have you flint and steel?”
Chapter 9 of The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle holds 198 sentences, grouped into 40 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 9 holds 198 sentences of The Adventures of Gerard, unabridged, divided into 40 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 198 sentences, grouped into 40 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 40 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 9 can be played aloud in United States English.
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