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The Bride of Lammermoor
The Bride of Lammermoor

Chapter X · Chapter 10

Chapter 10 of The Bride of Lammermoor is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?
Ethwald, Act I. Scene 1.
Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.
In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.
Up! up! in the name of Heaven!
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The Bride of Lammermoor

Chapter X · Chapter 10

Chapter 10 of The Bride of Lammermoor is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/31 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?
Line 2
Ethwald, Act I. Scene 1.
Line 3
Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.
Line 4
In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.
Line 5
Up! up! in the name of Heaven!

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Blood noun US /blʌd/

The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels.

From this reading “Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?”

Disguise noun US /dɪsˈɡaɪz/

A means of altering one's appearance to conceal one's identity.

From this reading “Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.”

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1

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From this reading Ethwald, Act I. Scene 1.

a

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

Act

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From this reading Ethwald, Act I. Scene 1.

all

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

and

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

apartment

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

as

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

assigned

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

assuming

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

awaked

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

Ay

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

been

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

bloodnounUS /blʌd/

The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels.

From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

Bucklaw

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

Caleb's

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

clod

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

conscience

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

considering

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

covert

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

Crag

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

creation

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

dead

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

disguisenounUS /dɪsˈɡaɪz/

A means of altering one's appearance to conceal one's identity.

From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

Ethwald

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From this reading Ethwald, Act I. Scene 1.

fair

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

fare

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

fearful

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

from

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

guests

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

had

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

halloo

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

happen

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

have

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

Heaven

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From this reading “Up! up! in the name of Heaven!

his

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

horn

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

host's

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

huntsmen

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

I

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From this reading Ethwald, Act I. Scene 1.

in

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

into

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

is

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

it

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

its

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

lie

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

lifeless

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

Light

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

like

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

loud

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

meals

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

merry

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

might

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

morning

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

name

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From this reading “Up! up! in the name of Heaven!

necessity

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

not

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

of

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

offers

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

or

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

out

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

outstretched

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

prey

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

procure

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

rushed

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From this reading In the morning Bucklaw rushed into his host’s apartment with a loud halloo, which might have awaked the dead.

Scene

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From this reading Ethwald, Act I. Scene 1.

short

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

should

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

Shut

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

slumbers

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

sometimes

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

starts

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

surprising

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

swelling

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

that

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

the

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

their

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

therefore

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

to

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

Up

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From this reading “Up! up! in the name of Heaven!

veins

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

warm'd

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

when

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

which

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

Who

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

will

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

wind

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

with

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

Wolf's

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From this reading Light meals procure light slumbers; and therefore it is not surprising that, considering the fare which Caleb’s conscience, or his necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf’s Crag, their slumbers should have been short.

Would

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

youth's

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From this reading Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, warm’d with youth’s blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, Shut out from all the fair creation offers?

Chapter 10 of The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott holds 157 sentences, grouped into 32 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.

What does chapter 10 of The Bride of Lammermoor contain?

Chapter 10 holds 157 sentences of The Bride of Lammermoor, unabridged, divided into 32 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 10 of The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 157 sentences, grouped into 32 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.

How do I study chapter 10 of The Bride of Lammermoor?

Work through the 32 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 32 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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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 10 can be played aloud in United States English.

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Is this the complete text of The Bride of Lammermoor?

Yes. All 4013 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #471 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #471, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 334 minutes of reading across 803 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Bride of Lammermoor

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Bride of Lammermoor, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Author
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Former
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Occasion
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Declined
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