Chapter 5 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899 is here in full — 141 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 5 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899 is here in full — 141 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
UNDER A CLOUD. “It comes to this, Oscar. I myself believe in you. You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity. Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
Chapter 5 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899 is here in full — 141 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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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.
marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
From this reading “You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.”
make overcast or cloudy
From this reading “UNDER A CLOUD.”
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading ““It comes to this, Oscar.”
a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
From this reading “You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.”
an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
From this reading “You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.”
lacking in rigor or strictness
From this reading “You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.”
an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
From this reading ““It comes to this, Oscar.”
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading “Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.”
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.
form or compose
In this reading “Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.”
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 UNDER A CLOUD.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
accept as true; take to be true
From this reading I myself believe in you.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
make overcast or cloudy
From this reading UNDER A CLOUD.
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading “It comes to this, Oscar.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I myself believe in you.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading I myself believe in you.
an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “It comes to this, Oscar.
lacking in rigor or strictness
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
engage in
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading I myself believe in you.
an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
From this reading “It comes to this, Oscar.
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “It comes to this, Oscar.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “It comes to this, Oscar.
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading UNDER A CLOUD.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet it comes to this: you will have to make up your mind to be under a cloud for the present.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I myself believe in you.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You have been careless, easy-going, lax, but I have full faith in your integrity.
Chapter 5 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899 by Various holds 141 sentences, grouped into 29 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 5 holds 141 sentences of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 141 sentences, grouped into 29 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 29 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
