Chapter 8 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899 is here in full — 327 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VIII
Chapter 8 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899 is here in full — 327 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
AT COSSART PLACE. “Effie, how well you look! You are quite brown. How glad I am to see you again!” “I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.
Chapter 8 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899 is here in full — 327 sentences across 66 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.
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading “You are quite brown.”
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading “How glad I am to see you again!””
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading ““I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.”
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading ““Effie, how well you look!”
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading “AT COSSART PLACE.”
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading “You are quite brown.”
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading ““I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.”
a diluting agent
From this reading ““I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.”
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.
anew
From this reading How glad I am to see you again!”
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading How glad I am to see you again!”
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading You are quite brown.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading AT COSSART PLACE.
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading You are quite brown.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading “I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading AT COSSART PLACE.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Effie, how well you look!
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading How glad I am to see you again!”
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Effie, how well you look!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading How glad I am to see you again!”
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading “Effie, how well you look!
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading AT COSSART PLACE.
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading You are quite brown.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading How glad I am to see you again!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading “I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.
a diluting agent
From this reading “I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading How glad I am to see you again!”
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Effie, how well you look!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Effie, how well you look!
Chapter 8 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899 by Various holds 327 sentences, grouped into 66 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 8 holds 327 sentences of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899, unabridged, divided into 66 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 327 sentences, grouped into 66 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 66 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 8 can be played aloud in United States English.
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 94 minutes of reading across 228 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
