Chapter 1 of The Princess Pourquoi is here in full — 593 sentences across 119 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Princess Pourquoi is here in full — 593 sentences across 119 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
=THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated. $1.50. =THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece. 12mo, $1.50. =DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.
Chapter 1 of The Princess Pourquoi is here in full — 593 sentences across 119 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/118 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
the season when the leaves fall from the trees
From this reading “=DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.”
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading “=THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece.”
any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers
From this reading “=DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.”
past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of
From this reading “=THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated.”
of or relating to a pastor
From this reading “=DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.”
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading “=THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated.”
the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
From this reading “=THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece.”
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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From this reading $1.50.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 12mo, $1.50.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading =DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.
the season when the leaves fall from the trees
From this reading =DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading =THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece.
any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers
From this reading =DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.
an ornamental facade
From this reading =THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece.
past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of
From this reading =THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated.
an indefinitely short time
From this reading 12mo, $1.50.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading =THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece.
of or relating to a pastor
From this reading =DAPHNE=: An Autumn Pastoral.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading =THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated.
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading =THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading =THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated.
the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
From this reading =THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece.
in the company of; together with
From this reading =THE COMING OF THE TIDE.= With frontispiece.
Chapter 1 of The Princess Pourquoi by Margaret Pollock Sherwood holds 593 sentences, grouped into 119 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 1 holds 593 sentences of The Princess Pourquoi, unabridged, divided into 119 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Princess Pourquoi by Margaret Pollock Sherwood exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 593 sentences, grouped into 119 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 119 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 119 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 1 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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About 96 minutes of reading across 233 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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