Chapter 10 of The Spell is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of The Spell is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Then it all happened just like that?" "Like what?" Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive. Armstrong rose. "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
Chapter 10 of The Spell is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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quick to understand
From this reading “Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.”
United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
From this reading “Armstrong rose.”
past form of “happen” — come to pass
From this reading “"Then it all happened just like that?"”
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading “"Then it all happened just like that?"”
inflected form of “reply” — react verbally
From this reading “"Why, as you have just said," he replied.”
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading “Armstrong rose.”
a shaky motion
From this reading “Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.”
in a vague way
From this reading “Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.”
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(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 "Then it all happened just like that?"
quick to understand
From this reading Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.
United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
From this reading Armstrong rose.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
past form of “happen” — come to pass
From this reading "Then it all happened just like that?"
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "Then it all happened just like that?"
and nothing more
From this reading "Then it all happened just like that?"
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "Then it all happened just like that?"
inflected form of “reply” — react verbally
From this reading "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading Armstrong rose.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "Then it all happened just like that?"
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading "Then it all happened just like that?"
a shaky motion
From this reading Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.
in a vague way
From this reading Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Inez was trembling, vaguely apprehensive.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "Like what?"
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Why, as you have just said," he replied.
Chapter 10 of The Spell by William Dana Orcutt holds 413 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 10 holds 413 sentences of The Spell, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of The Spell by William Dana Orcutt exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 413 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 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 10 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 451 minutes of reading across 1083 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Spell section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Spell, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
