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Chapter 7 of The peasants, [vol. 3] is here in full — 641 sentences across 129 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of The peasants, [vol. 3] is here in full — 641 sentences across 129 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Our boys are returning!” The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire. Were they, truly? And if so, when? No one knew.
Chapter 7 of The peasants, [vol. 3] is here in full — 641 sentences across 129 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading ““Our boys are returning!””
gleam or glow intermittently
From this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
From this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
information about recent and important events
From this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
tending to return to an earlier state
From this reading ““Our boys are returning!””
distribute or disperse widely
From this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading “Were they, truly?”
a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
From this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
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In this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
In this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
In this reading “The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.”
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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 The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “Our boys are returning!”
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading “Our boys are returning!”
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
gleam or glow intermittently
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading And if so, when?
inflected form of “know” — be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading No one knew.
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
information about recent and important events
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
not any; not one
From this reading No one knew.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading No one knew.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading “Our boys are returning!”
tending to return to an earlier state
From this reading “Our boys are returning!”
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading And if so, when?
distribute or disperse widely
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Were they, truly?
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading Were they, truly?
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Were they, truly?
at the time that
From this reading And if so, when?
a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
From this reading The news came like a flash of lightning, and spread through Lipka like wildfire.
Chapter 7 of The peasants, [vol. 3] by Władysław Stanisław Reymont holds 641 sentences, grouped into 129 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 7 holds 641 sentences of The peasants, [vol. 3], unabridged, divided into 129 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of The peasants, [vol. 3] by Władysław Stanisław Reymont exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 641 sentences, grouped into 129 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 129 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 129 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 7 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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