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Chapter 5 of The Golden Maiden, and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon? Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night." They all rose and mounted their horses. That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp. Mirza began again to implore them, saying:
Chapter 5 of The Golden Maiden, and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “brother” — a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading “That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.”
wanted intensely
From this reading “That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.”
a person who is older than you are
From this reading “That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.”
call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading “Mirza began again to implore them, saying:”
leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
From this reading “Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."”
a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
From this reading “That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.”
assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support
From this reading “They all rose and mounted their horses.”
the middle of the day
From this reading “"Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?”
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 “That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.”
In this reading “"Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?”
In this reading “That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.”
rise to one's feet
In this reading “"Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?”
In this reading “Mirza began again to implore them, saying:”
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 Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
anew
From this reading Mirza began again to implore them, saying:
(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 Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading They all rose and mounted their horses.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading Mirza began again to implore them, saying:
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
plural of “brother” — a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
wanted intensely
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
a person who is older than you are
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
plural of “horse” — solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
From this reading They all rose and mounted their horses.
call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading Mirza began again to implore them, saying:
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mirza began again to implore them, saying:
a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support
From this reading They all rose and mounted their horses.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
the middle of the day
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading They all rose and mounted their horses.
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
From this reading Mirza began again to implore them, saying:
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading They all rose and mounted their horses.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Mirza began again to implore them, saying:
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They all rose and mounted their horses.
up to a particular time
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
past form of “watch” — look attentively
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
in or at the place that
From this reading That day they came to the Black Mountain, where the two elder brothers desired to camp.
which person or people
From this reading Have a little mercy on me, who have watched all the night."
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Get up, ho! will you sleep till noon?
Chapter 5 of The Golden Maiden, and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia by A. G. (Apraham Garabed) Seklemian holds 412 sentences, grouped into 83 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.
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