Chapter 11 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 430 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 430 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Go then.” Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah. The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns. “Good morning, Niña. How have you passed the night?
Chapter 11 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 430 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/86 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
From this reading “The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.”
eat an early morning meal
From this reading “Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.”
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
From this reading “The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.”
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading “Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.”
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
From this reading “The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.”
past form of “heap” — bestow in large quantities
From this reading “The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.”
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading “The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.”
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading “The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.”
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.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.”
bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
In this reading “The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.”
appear or become visible; make a showing
In this reading “Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.”
In this reading “How have you passed the night?”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
eat an early morning meal
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “Go then.”
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading “Good morning, Niña.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading How have you passed the night?
past form of “heap” — bestow in large quantities
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How have you passed the night?
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading “Good morning, Niña.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading How have you passed the night?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Good morning, Niña.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
past form of “pass” — go across or through
From this reading How have you passed the night?
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading “Go then.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
From this reading Kate comes out to breakfast on the verandah.
a Caucasian
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The table is set, heaped with fruit and white bread and sweet buns.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading How have you passed the night?
Chapter 11 of The Plumed Serpent by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence holds 430 sentences, grouped into 86 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 11 holds 430 sentences of The Plumed Serpent, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of The Plumed Serpent by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 430 sentences, grouped into 86 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 86 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 86 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 11 can be played aloud in United States English.
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