Chapter 1 of The Nursery Rhymes of England is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of The Nursery Rhymes of England is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND. JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL. ENGLAND. BY JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.
Chapter 1 of The Nursery Rhymes of England is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading “THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.”
plural of “illustration” — artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
From this reading “WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.”
a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
From this reading “JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL.”
a child's room for a baby
From this reading “THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.”
garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
From this reading “JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL.”
plural of “rhyme” — correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
From this reading “THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.”
award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)
From this reading “WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.”
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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.
a tale in rhymed verse for children
In this reading “THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
From this reading WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading BY JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL.
a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL.
plural of “illustration” — artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
From this reading WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.
a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
From this reading JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL.
a child's room for a baby
From this reading THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.
garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
From this reading JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL.
plural of “rhyme” — correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
From this reading THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.
award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)
From this reading WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE NURSERY RHYMES OF ENGLAND.
a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
From this reading WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.
in the company of; together with
From this reading WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. B. SCOTT.
Chapter 1 of The Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) [Compiler] Halliwell-Phillipps holds 398 sentences, grouped into 80 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 398 sentences of The Nursery Rhymes of England, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Nursery Rhymes of England by J. O. (James Orchard) [Compiler] Halliwell-Phillipps exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 398 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 80 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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