Chapter 26 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 26 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Hear me, people. You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl. Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect. To the new God no man shall kneel. “Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.
Chapter 26 of The Plumed Serpent is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a low-lying region in central France
From this reading ““Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.”
provide with a covering or cause to be covered
From this reading ““Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.”
construct, build, or erect
From this reading “Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.”
plural of “face” — the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading ““Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.”
rest one's weight on one's knees
From this reading “To the new God no man shall kneel.”
an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent
From this reading “You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.”
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
From this reading “Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.”
a particular situation
From this reading “Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.”
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 “You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.”
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
In this reading ““Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
a low-lying region in central France
From this reading “Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.
provide with a covering or cause to be covered
From this reading “Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading “Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.
to come or go into
From this reading You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.
construct, build, or erect
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
plural of “face” — the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading “Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
From this reading To the new God no man shall kneel.
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading “Hear me, people.
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.
rest one's weight on one's knees
From this reading To the new God no man shall kneel.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading To the new God no man shall kneel.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Hear me, people.
the force of workers available
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading To the new God no man shall kneel.
not any; not one
From this reading To the new God no man shall kneel.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading “Hear me, people.
an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent
From this reading You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
precisely, exactly
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading To the new God no man shall kneel.
a particular situation
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
be standing; be upright
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Men must go to the right and left, and remove their shoes, and stand erect.
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading “Women must go down the centre, and cover their faces.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You may enter the house of Quetzalcoatl.
Chapter 26 of The Plumed Serpent by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence holds 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 26 holds 419 sentences of The Plumed Serpent, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
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