Chapter 8 of The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance is here in full — 267 sentences across 54 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance is here in full — 267 sentences across 54 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA." "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread! The warp and the woof come right." CHILD WORLD. They were not to be surprised!
Chapter 8 of The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance is here in full — 267 sentences across 54 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.
uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
From this reading “"THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA."”
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
From this reading “"Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!”
a victory cheer
From this reading “"Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!”
any art that invokes supernatural powers
From this reading “"Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!”
taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment
From this reading “They were not to be surprised!”
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
From this reading “"Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!”
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
From this reading “The warp and the woof come right."”
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
From this reading “The warp and the woof come right."”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading They were not to be surprised!
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading "THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA."
uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
From this reading "THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA."
a young person of either sex
From this reading CHILD WORLD.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading The warp and the woof come right."
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
a victory cheer
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
any art that invokes supernatural powers
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA."
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading They were not to be surprised!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA."
precisely, exactly
From this reading The warp and the woof come right."
having strength or power greater than average or expected
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment
From this reading They were not to be surprised!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA."
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They were not to be surprised!
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading They were not to be surprised!
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
From this reading The warp and the woof come right."
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading They were not to be surprised!
a Caucasian
From this reading "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread!
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
From this reading The warp and the woof come right."
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading CHILD WORLD.
Chapter 8 of The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance by Mrs. Molesworth holds 267 sentences, grouped into 54 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 8 holds 267 sentences of The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance, unabridged, divided into 54 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance by Mrs. Molesworth exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 267 sentences, grouped into 54 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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