Chapter 23 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 23 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time: “Come! Somebody! Come to Don Ramón! He will die.”
Chapter 23 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
From this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
without seeing or looking
From this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
From this reading “Come to Don Ramón!”
inflected form of “fight” — be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
From this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
From this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
so extremely intense as to evoke screams
From this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
a person, without saying who
From this reading “Somebody!”
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
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In this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
In this reading “She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:”
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from one side of something to the other
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
(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 She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
without seeing or looking
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “Come!
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading He will die.”
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
From this reading Come to Don Ramón!
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
inflected form of “fight” — be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He will die.”
a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Come to Don Ramón!
inflected form of “run” — move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
so extremely intense as to evoke screams
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
a person, without saying who
From this reading Somebody!
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading She ran blindly down the stairs, and fought to get the great iron bars from across the door, screaming all the time:
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading He will die.”
Chapter 23 of The Plumed Serpent by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence holds 402 sentences, grouped into 81 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 23 holds 402 sentences of The Plumed Serpent, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 23 of The Plumed Serpent by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 402 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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