Chapter 1 of The Hour Glass is here in full — 528 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Hour Glass is here in full — 528 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room. A desk and a chair in the middle. An hour-glass on a bracket near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some benches.
Chapter 1 of The Hour Glass is here in full — 528 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
plural of “bench” — a long seat for more than one person
From this reading “Some benches.”
a category falling within certain defined limits
From this reading “An hour-glass on a bracket near the door.”
annoying and unpleasant
From this reading “A creepy stool near it.”
a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
From this reading “A desk and a chair in the middle.”
located inward
From this reading “SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.”
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
From this reading “A desk and a chair in the middle.”
an open or empty space in or between things
From this reading “SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.”
a simple seat without a back or arms
From this reading “A creepy stool near it.”
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 SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
plural of “bench” — a long seat for more than one person
From this reading Some benches.
a category falling within certain defined limits
From this reading An hour-glass on a bracket near the door.
a seat for one person, with a support for the back
From this reading A desk and a chair in the middle.
annoying and unpleasant
From this reading A creepy stool near it.
a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
From this reading A desk and a chair in the middle.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading An hour-glass on a bracket near the door.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A desk and a chair in the middle.
located inward
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading A creepy stool near it.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
From this reading A desk and a chair in the middle.
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading An hour-glass on a bracket near the door.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading An hour-glass on a bracket near the door.
an open or empty space in or between things
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
the place where some action occurs
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Some benches.
a simple seat without a back or arms
From this reading A creepy stool near it.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
in the company of; together with
From this reading SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room.
Chapter 1 of The Hour Glass by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats holds 528 sentences, grouped into 106 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 1 holds 528 sentences of The Hour Glass, unabridged, divided into 106 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Hour Glass by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 528 sentences, grouped into 106 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.
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