Chapter 1 of The Hunchback is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of The Hunchback is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Clif_. Title and land, sir, unto which add love! All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go. _Wal_. We're public here, And may be interrupted.
Chapter 1 of The Hunchback is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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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.
make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of
From this reading “Title and land, sir, unto which add love!”
an old word for “before”
From this reading “All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.”
the state of being honored
From this reading “All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.”
discontinued temporarily
From this reading “We're public here, And may be interrupted.”
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading “All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.”
people in general considered as a whole
From this reading “We're public here, And may be interrupted.”
a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
From this reading “Title and land, sir, unto which add love!”
an old word for “to”
From this reading “Title and land, sir, unto which add love!”
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.
make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
(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 All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading We're public here, And may be interrupted.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Clif_.
an old word for “before”
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
destroyed or killed
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading We're public here, And may be interrupted.
the state of being honored
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
discontinued temporarily
From this reading We're public here, And may be interrupted.
the land on which real estate is located
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading We're public here, And may be interrupted.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
people in general considered as a whole
From this reading We're public here, And may be interrupted.
except for; apart from
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
term of address for a man
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading All gone, save life and honour, which, ere I'll lose, I'll let the other go.
a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
an old word for “to”
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Wal_.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We're public here, And may be interrupted.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Title and land, sir, unto which add love!
Chapter 1 of The Hunchback by James Sheridan Knowles holds 410 sentences, grouped into 82 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 410 sentences of The Hunchback, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Hunchback by James Sheridan Knowles exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 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.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Hunchback, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
