Chapter 4 of The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still; And all things have their march, As if by one great will. Move on! Move all! Hark to the footfall!
Chapter 4 of The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor is here in full — 288 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
From this reading ““Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;”
Directly under; in or to a lower position than.
From this reading ““Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;”
the sound of a step of someone walking
From this reading “Hark to the footfall!”
listen; used mostly in the imperative
From this reading “Hark to the footfall!”
march in a procession
From this reading “And all things have their march, As if by one great will.”
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “Move on!”
a quantity of no importance
From this reading ““Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;”
abounding with or resembling stars
From this reading ““Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;”
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.
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In this reading “And all things have their march, As if by one great will.”
move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
In this reading “Move on!”
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(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 And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
Directly under; in or to a lower position than.
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
showing who or what does the action
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
the sound of a step of someone walking
From this reading Hark to the footfall!
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
listen; used mostly in the imperative
From this reading Hark to the footfall!
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
march in a procession
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Move on!
a quantity of no importance
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Move on!
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
abounding with or resembling stars
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
not in physical motion
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Hark to the footfall!
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth, or is still;
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Hark to the footfall!
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading And all things have their march, As if by one great will.
Chapter 4 of The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor by Amelia E. Barr holds 288 sentences, grouped into 58 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 288 sentences of The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor, unabridged, divided into 58 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor by Amelia E. Barr exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 288 sentences, grouped into 58 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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