Chapter 7 of The Song of the Blood-Red Flower is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of The Song of the Blood-Red Flower is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"They got her up after--at the first haul. She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot. But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could. Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead. Ay, a lovely thing, a lovely thing.
Chapter 7 of The Song of the Blood-Red Flower is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 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.
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading “Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead.”
the lower side of anything
From this reading “She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.”
the act of acquiring something
From this reading “But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.”
draw slowly or heavily
From this reading “"They got her up after--at the first haul.”
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
From this reading “Ay, a lovely thing, a lovely thing.”
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading “She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.”
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading “She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.”
make an effort or attempt
From this reading “But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.”
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 before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
later than; following
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
anew
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ay, a lovely thing, a lovely thing.
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
From this reading Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead.
the lower side of anything
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead.
the act of acquiring something
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
destroyed or killed
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
draw slowly or heavily
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
and nothing more
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead.
appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
From this reading Ay, a lovely thing, a lovely thing.
not any; not one
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Just as beautiful to look at she was, for all she was dead.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
in or at that place or location
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
a special situation
From this reading Ay, a lovely thing, a lovely thing.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading She'd gone down like a stone to the bottom, just at the spot.
make an effort or attempt
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading "They got her up after--at the first haul.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading But there was no getting her to life again, try all we could.
Chapter 7 of The Song of the Blood-Red Flower by Johannes Linnankoski holds 415 sentences, grouped into 83 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 7 holds 415 sentences of The Song of the Blood-Red Flower, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
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