Chapter 4 of The New Woman is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of The New Woman is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
COLONEL. Form square! Prepare to receive cavalry! [_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE. Where are you?
Chapter 4 of The New Woman is here in full — 395 sentences across 79 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.
troops trained to fight on horseback
From this reading “Prepare to receive cavalry!”
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading “COLONEL.”
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
From this reading “Form square!”
a polite name for any woman
From this reading “[_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE.”
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
From this reading “Prepare to receive cavalry!”
get something; come into possession of
From this reading “Prepare to receive cavalry!”
third-person singular of “retire” — go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
make square
From this reading “Form square!”
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Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
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the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Where are you?
troops trained to fight on horseback
From this reading Prepare to receive cavalry!
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading COLONEL.
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
From this reading Form square!
a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
From this reading [_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE.
a polite name for any woman
From this reading [_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE.
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
From this reading Prepare to receive cavalry!
enter again
From this reading [_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE.
get something; come into possession of
From this reading Prepare to receive cavalry!
third-person singular of “retire” — go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
From this reading [_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE.
make square
From this reading Form square!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Prepare to receive cavalry!
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading [_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading [_Retires up._ _Re-enter LADY WARGRAVE, L._ LADY WARGRAVE.
in or at the place that
From this reading Where are you?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Where are you?
Chapter 4 of The New Woman by Sydney Grundy holds 395 sentences, grouped into 79 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 4 holds 395 sentences of The New Woman, unabridged, divided into 79 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of The New Woman by Sydney Grundy exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 395 sentences, grouped into 79 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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