Chapter 7 of The Green Bough is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of The Green Bough is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
With flashing eyes she turned to Jane. "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now. "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me. You’re not really ashamed of me. You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.
Chapter 7 of The Green Bough is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/86 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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.
feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
From this reading “You’re not really ashamed of me.”
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
From this reading “You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.”
a short vivid experience
From this reading “With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.”
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
From this reading “You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.”
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading “You’re not really ashamed of me.”
feeling a need to see others suffer
From this reading “You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.”
aroused to impatience or anger
From this reading “You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.”
a fact that has been verified
From this reading “"You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.”
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 “With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.”
In this reading “With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
From this reading You’re not really ashamed of me.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.
inflected form of “cry” — utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
From this reading You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.
opinion or judgment
From this reading With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.
a short vivid experience
From this reading With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.
inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
From this reading You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading You’re not really ashamed of me.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading You’re not really ashamed of me.
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading You’re not really ashamed of me.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.
feeling a need to see others suffer
From this reading You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.
aroused to impatience or anger
From this reading You’re envious, jealous, and you’re stung with spite.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.
a fact that has been verified
From this reading "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.
moved around an axis or center
From this reading With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.
(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 "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
in the company of; together with
From this reading With flashing eyes she turned to Jane.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Well, you shall have it as you thought you gave it to me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You’re not really ashamed of me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "You’ve asked for the truth," she cried now.
Chapter 7 of The Green Bough by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston holds 433 sentences, grouped into 87 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 7 holds 433 sentences of The Green Bough, unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of The Green Bough by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 433 sentences, grouped into 87 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 87 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 87 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 7 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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