Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX — No. 1019, July 8, 1899 is here in full — 246 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX — No. 1019, July 8, 1899 is here in full — 246 sentences across 50 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
CHRISTMAS TIME. “A merry Christmas, Miss Cossart! Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church! I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!” “Oh, I’m a regular heathen!
Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX — No. 1019, July 8, 1899 is here in full — 246 sentences across 50 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.
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading “CHRISTMAS TIME.”
one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
From this reading “Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!”
recently made, produced, or harvested
From this reading “I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!””
a person who does not acknowledge your god
From this reading ““Oh, I’m a regular heathen!”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!”
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading ““A merry Christmas, Miss Cossart!”
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading ““Oh, I’m a regular heathen!”
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading “I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!””
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.
In this reading “I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!””
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “A merry Christmas, Miss Cossart!
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading CHRISTMAS TIME.
one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “A merry Christmas, Miss Cossart!
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
recently made, produced, or harvested
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
a person who does not acknowledge your god
From this reading “Oh, I’m a regular heathen!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Oh, I’m a regular heathen!
engage in
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading “A merry Christmas, Miss Cossart!
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading “A merry Christmas, Miss Cossart!
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, I’m a regular heathen!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading “Oh, I’m a regular heathen!
express in words
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading CHRISTMAS TIME.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Why, you don’t mean to say you are not coming to church!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I thought you’d be sure to make a fresh start on Christmas Day!”
Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX — No. 1019, July 8, 1899 by Various holds 246 sentences, grouped into 50 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 246 sentences of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX — No. 1019, July 8, 1899, unabridged, divided into 50 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX — No. 1019, July 8, 1899 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 246 sentences, grouped into 50 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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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
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