Chapter 1 of The Rainbow Bridge is here in full — 78 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Rainbow Bridge is here in full — 78 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
=WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST. With full page illustration. Containing 318 pages. Cloth bound. Price, $1.25.
Chapter 1 of The Rainbow Bridge is here in full — 78 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
From this reading “Cloth bound.”
-ing form of “contain” — include or contain; have as a component
From this reading “Containing 318 pages.”
be a farmer; work as a farmer
From this reading “=WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.”
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading “=WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.”
artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
From this reading “With full page illustration.”
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
From this reading “With full page illustration.”
plural of “page” — one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
From this reading “Containing 318 pages.”
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
From this reading “Price, $1.25.”
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.
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From this reading Price, $1.25.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Containing 318 pages.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
confined by bonds
From this reading Cloth bound.
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
From this reading Cloth bound.
-ing form of “contain” — include or contain; have as a component
From this reading Containing 318 pages.
be a farmer; work as a farmer
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
From this reading With full page illustration.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
From this reading With full page illustration.
the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
From this reading With full page illustration.
plural of “page” — one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
From this reading Containing 318 pages.
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
From this reading Price, $1.25.
cut with a saw
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST.
in the company of; together with
From this reading With full page illustration.
Chapter 1 of The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox holds 78 sentences, grouped into 16 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 78 sentences of The Rainbow Bridge, unabridged, divided into 16 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 78 sentences, grouped into 16 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 16 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 16 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.
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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 233 minutes of reading across 561 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Rainbow Bridge, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
