Chapter 1 of The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 is here in full — 363 sentences across 73 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 is here in full — 363 sentences across 73 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE ARENA. No. XX. JULY, 1891. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
Chapter 1 of The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 is here in full — 363 sentences across 73 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/72 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a particular environment or walk of life
From this reading “THE ARENA.”
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading “BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.”
a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle
From this reading “OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.”
the month following June and preceding August
From this reading “JULY, 1891.”
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
From this reading “OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.”
United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997)
From this reading “BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.”
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From this reading JULY, 1891.
a particular environment or walk of life
From this reading THE ARENA.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
From this reading BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
From this reading BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle
From this reading OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
the month following June and preceding August
From this reading JULY, 1891.
a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
From this reading BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
not any; not one
From this reading No. XX.
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
From this reading OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997)
From this reading BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE ARENA.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
From this reading No. XX.
Chapter 1 of The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Various holds 363 sentences, grouped into 73 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 363 sentences of The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891, unabridged, divided into 73 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 363 sentences, grouped into 73 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 73 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 73 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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