Chapter 8 of The House on the Moor, V. 2/3 is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The House on the Moor, V. 2/3 is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done? If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'! Where's my son? Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd! Where's my Sam?
Chapter 8 of The House on the Moor, V. 2/3 is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/27 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
from one side of something to the other
From this reading “Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!”
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading “Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!”
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading “Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!”
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading “"Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?”
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading “Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!”
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading “Where's my Sam?”
a general conscious awareness
From this reading “If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!”
a male human offspring
From this reading “Where's my son?”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
from one side of something to the other
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Where's my son?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading Where's my Sam?
a general conscious awareness
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
a male human offspring
From this reading Where's my son?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading If I had but had the sense to ging mysel'!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Where's my son?
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading Black be the day ye coom across this door, ye bletherin' Ould Hunderd!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Eyeh, man! and that's a' the geed ye've done?
Chapter 8 of The House on the Moor, V. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant holds 139 sentences, grouped into 28 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 139 sentences of The House on the Moor, V. 2/3, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of The House on the Moor, V. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 139 sentences, grouped into 28 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 28 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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