Chapter 1 of The Magic Ring and Other Stories is here in full — 457 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Magic Ring and Other Stories is here in full — 457 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health! Ilonka left with the Swineherd .
Chapter 1 of The Magic Ring and Other Stories is here in full — 457 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/91 · 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.
any of various types of cabbage
From this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
From this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
From this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
From this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
From this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
possessive form of “emperor” — the male ruler of an empire
the members of a business venture created by contract
From this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
plural of “swan” — stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
From this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
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 “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
In this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease
In this reading “The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!”
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 The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
plural of “beast” — a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
any of various types of cabbage
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
clothing in general
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
possessive form of “emperor” — the male ruler of an empire
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
the mother of your father or mother
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading Ilonka left with the Swineherd .
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
occurring by chance
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
any art that invokes supernatural powers
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
the members of a business venture created by contract
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
sound loudly and sonorously
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
plural of “swan” — stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a herder or swine
From this reading Ilonka left with the Swineherd .
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
a Caucasian
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
in the company of; together with
From this reading Ilonka left with the Swineherd .
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading The Magic Ring The White Duck Lovely Ilonka Clever Maria The Language of Beasts The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage Lucky Luck To Your Good Health!
Chapter 1 of The Magic Ring and Other Stories by Andrew [Editor] Lang holds 457 sentences, grouped into 92 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 457 sentences of The Magic Ring and Other Stories, unabridged, divided into 92 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Magic Ring and Other Stories by Andrew [Editor] Lang exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 457 sentences, grouped into 92 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 92 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 92 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 1 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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About 113 minutes of reading across 272 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Magic Ring and Other Stories, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
