Chapter 12 of The Blue Star is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Blue Star is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Stop!” The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised. “Ah, the sword bites, does it? Conspirator! Plot—” “Stop!”
Chapter 12 of The Blue Star is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/80 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
anew
From this reading “The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.”
plural of “bite” — a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
From this reading ““Ah, the sword bites, does it?”
a member of a conspiracy
From this reading “Conspirator!”
plural of “foot” — the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
From this reading “The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.”
a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
From this reading “Plot—” “Stop!””
personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task
From this reading “The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.”
come to a halt, stop moving
From this reading ““Stop!””
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
From this reading ““Ah, the sword bites, does it?”
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.
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.
anew
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Ah, the sword bites, does it?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
plural of “bite” — a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
From this reading “Ah, the sword bites, does it?
a member of a conspiracy
From this reading Conspirator!
the form of “do” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Ah, the sword bites, does it?
plural of “foot” — the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “Ah, the sword bites, does it?
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
From this reading Plot—” “Stop!”
personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
come to a halt, stop moving
From this reading “Stop!”
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
From this reading “Ah, the sword bites, does it?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
held up in the air
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The Arch-Episcopal was on his feet again, staff upraised.
Chapter 12 of The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 12 holds 400 sentences of The Blue Star, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 80 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 12 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 436 minutes of reading across 1049 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Blue Star section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Blue Star, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
