Chapter 1 of The Room with the Little Door is here in full — 455 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Room with the Little Door is here in full — 455 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected. Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained. A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original. This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters. It has not been preserved in the text version.
Chapter 1 of The Room with the Little Door is here in full — 455 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/91 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
something used to beautify
From this reading “A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.”
resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers
From this reading “A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.”
plural of “header” — a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
From this reading “A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.”
a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
From this reading “This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.”
division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page
From this reading “Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained.”
something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions
From this reading “Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.”
plural of “variation” — an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
From this reading “Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained.”
plural of “version” — an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
From this reading “This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.”
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 “This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.”
In this reading “A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.
third-person singular of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
plural of “chapter” — a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
having something undesirable neutralized
From this reading Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.
something used to beautify
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
plural of “error” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.
resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
plural of “header” — a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page
From this reading Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It has not been preserved in the text version.
used to form the superlative
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It has not been preserved in the text version.
easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
From this reading Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
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 A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions
From this reading Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.
continued in your keeping or use or memory
From this reading Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
From this reading Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained.
the words of something written
From this reading It has not been preserved in the text version.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A small floral decoration appears in most page headers in the original.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.
plural of “variation” — an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
From this reading Variations in spelling and hyphenation retained.
an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
From this reading It has not been preserved in the text version.
plural of “version” — an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
From this reading This decoration has been preserved in the html and ebook versions at the end of chapters.
Chapter 1 of The Room with the Little Door by Roland Burnham Molineux holds 455 sentences, grouped into 91 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 455 sentences of The Room with the Little Door, unabridged, divided into 91 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Room with the Little Door by Roland Burnham Molineux exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 455 sentences, grouped into 91 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 91 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 91 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 160 minutes of reading across 385 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Room with the Little Door, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
