Chapter 2 of The Battle of Life is here in full — 180 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Battle of Life is here in full — 180 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome. ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember. I was in the house.’ ‘That’s true! Clemency was the first,’ said Alfred.
Chapter 2 of The Battle of Life is here in full — 180 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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To recall to mind.
From this reading “‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.”
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From this reading Clemency was the first,’ said Alfred.
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From this reading ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.
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From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I was in the house.’
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From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I was in the house.’
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From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
To recall to mind.
From this reading ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘That’s true!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘That’s true!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘She was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,’ said Clemency Newcome.
Chapter 2 of The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens holds 180 sentences, grouped into 36 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 2 holds 180 sentences of The Battle of Life, unabridged, divided into 36 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 180 sentences, grouped into 36 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 36 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 36 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.
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