Chapter 1 of The Rescue is here in full — 441 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Rescue is here in full — 441 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
NEW YORK The Century Co. THE DEVINNE PRESS. G. S. S. M. D. S. EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
Chapter 1 of The Rescue is here in full — 441 sentences across 89 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.
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
From this reading “EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.”
a period of 100 years
From this reading “NEW YORK The Century Co.”
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading “EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.”
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
From this reading “EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.”
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading “NEW YORK The Century Co.”
exert pressure or force to or upon
From this reading “THE DEVINNE PRESS.”
an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
From this reading “EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.”
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading “NEW YORK The Century Co.”
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a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
a period of 100 years
From this reading NEW YORK The Century Co.
an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
From this reading NEW YORK The Century Co.
a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
From this reading M. D. S.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE DEVINNE PRESS.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
From this reading G. S. S.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
From this reading M. D. S.
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading NEW YORK The Century Co.
above and across; more than
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
exert pressure or force to or upon
From this reading THE DEVINNE PRESS.
an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
From this reading EUSTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile over the photograph-album.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading G. S. S.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading NEW YORK The Century Co.
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading NEW YORK The Century Co.
Chapter 1 of The Rescue by Anne Douglas Sedgwick holds 441 sentences, grouped into 89 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 441 sentences of The Rescue, unabridged, divided into 89 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Rescue by Anne Douglas Sedgwick exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 441 sentences, grouped into 89 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.
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