Chapter 8 of The Home and the World is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 8 of The Home and the World is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
What a weight it was. The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust. Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold. After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer. All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
Chapter 8 of The Home and the World is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an onerous or difficult concern
From this reading “The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.”
treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
From this reading “The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.”
plural of “right” — an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
From this reading “All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.”
inflected form of “steal” — take without the owner's consent
From this reading “After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.”
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
From this reading “The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.”
a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
From this reading “After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.”
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
From this reading “Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.”
having passed out of existence
From this reading “All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.”
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 What a weight it was.
later than; following
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
(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 Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
an onerous or difficult concern
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
remove the dust from
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
mat together and make felt-like
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
coins made of gold
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading What a weight it was.
used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
for more time
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
used to form the superlative
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
not any; not one
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
plural of “note” — a brief written record
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
above and across; more than
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
have ownership or possession of
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
by chance
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
plural of “right” — an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
inflected form of “steal” — take without the owner's consent
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
From this reading After I had stolen into my room like a thief, it felt like my own room no longer.
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The burden of the theft crushed my heart to the dust.
make physical contact with, come in contact with
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
having passed out of existence
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading What a weight it was.
the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
From this reading What a weight it was.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What a weight it was.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading All the most precious rights which I had over it vanished at the touch of my theft.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Perhaps notes would have made it seem less like thieving, but this was all gold.
Chapter 8 of The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore holds 418 sentences, grouped into 84 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 418 sentences of The Home and the World, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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