Chapter 6 of The Other Girls is here in full — 261 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Other Girls is here in full — 261 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
BEL AND BARTHOLOMEW. "Kroo! kroo! I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs! Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch! "Cluck! cluck! listen! tseep!
Chapter 6 of The Other Girls is here in full — 261 sentences across 53 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.
on, to, or at the top
From this reading “I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!”
a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
From this reading “BEL AND BARTHOLOMEW.”
the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
From this reading “"Cluck! cluck! listen! tseep!”
a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
From this reading “I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!”
oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
From this reading “I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!”
emerge from the eggs
From this reading “Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!”
staying power
From this reading “I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!”
to grasp hastily or eagerly
From this reading “Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!”
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 Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading BEL AND BARTHOLOMEW.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
on, to, or at the top
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BEL AND BARTHOLOMEW.
a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
From this reading BEL AND BARTHOLOMEW.
the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
From this reading "Cluck! cluck! listen! tseep!
a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
the act of departing
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
emerge from the eggs
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Kroo! kroo!
staying power
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
hear with intention
From this reading "Cluck! cluck! listen! tseep!
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
not move; be in a resting position
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
to grasp hastily or eagerly
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading I've cramp in my legs, Sitting so long atop of my eggs!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Cluck! cluck! listen! tseep!
at the time that
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
From this reading Never a minute for rest to snatch; I wonder when they are going to hatch!
Chapter 6 of The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney holds 261 sentences, grouped into 53 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 6 holds 261 sentences of The Other Girls, unabridged, divided into 53 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 261 sentences, grouped into 53 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 53 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 53 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 6 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 600 minutes of reading across 1463 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Other Girls, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
