Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899 is here in full — 22 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899 is here in full — 22 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
JULY 15, 1899. [PRICE ONE PENNY.] A LESSON IN LOVE. BY FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE. She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899 is here in full — 22 sentences across 5 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.
beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
From this reading “She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.”
inflected form of “bite” — to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
From this reading “She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.”
possessive form of “cherry” — wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore
From this reading “BY FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE.”
covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs
From this reading “She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.”
a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
From this reading “She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.”
young domestic cat
From this reading “She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.”
the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
From this reading “She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.”
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.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JULY 15, 1899.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JULY 15, 1899.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A LESSON IN LOVE.
beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
inflected form of “bite” — to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading BY FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE.
possessive form of “cherry” — wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
an old word for “before”
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore
From this reading BY FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE.
covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
an alert and refreshed state
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
an old form of “has”
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A LESSON IN LOVE.
the month following June and preceding August
From this reading JULY 15, 1899.
young domestic cat
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BY FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE.
a unit of instruction
From this reading A LESSON IN LOVE.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading A LESSON IN LOVE.
the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading [PRICE ONE PENNY.]
a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
From this reading [PRICE ONE PENNY.]
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
From this reading [PRICE ONE PENNY.]
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading She was like the hawthorn snow— Like a furry kitten— Like a cherry’s melting glow Ere a beak hath bitten.
Chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899 by Various holds 22 sentences, grouped into 5 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 22 sentences of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899, unabridged, divided into 5 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 22 sentences, grouped into 5 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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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 96 minutes of reading across 233 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899 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 Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1020, July 15, 1899, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
