Chapter 2 of The Eyes of Asia is here in full — 575 sentences across 115 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Eyes of Asia is here in full — 575 sentences across 115 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MOTHER. He writes like a poet, my son. That is wonderful writing. FATHER. All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
Chapter 2 of The Eyes of Asia is here in full — 575 sentences across 115 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.
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading “He writes like a poet, my son.”
(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point
From this reading “All the young men write the same with regard to the war.”
a male human offspring
From this reading “He writes like a poet, my son.”
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
From this reading “All the young men write the same with regard to the war.”
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
From this reading “That is wonderful writing.”
produce a literary work
From this reading “All the young men write the same with regard to the war.”
third-person singular of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading “He writes like a poet, my son.”
the act of creating written works
From this reading “That is wonderful writing.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading He writes like a poet, my son.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading FATHER.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He writes like a poet, my son.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading That is wonderful writing.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading He writes like a poet, my son.
the force of workers available
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading MOTHER.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading He writes like a poet, my son.
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading He writes like a poet, my son.
(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
Identical; not different.
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
a male human offspring
From this reading He writes like a poet, my son.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That is wonderful writing.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
in the company of; together with
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
From this reading That is wonderful writing.
produce a literary work
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
third-person singular of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading He writes like a poet, my son.
the act of creating written works
From this reading That is wonderful writing.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading All the young men write the same with regard to the war.
Chapter 2 of The Eyes of Asia by Rudyard Kipling holds 575 sentences, grouped into 115 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 2 holds 575 sentences of The Eyes of Asia, unabridged, divided into 115 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Eyes of Asia by Rudyard Kipling exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 575 sentences, grouped into 115 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.
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