Chapter 6 of The Wishing Moon is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VI
Chapter 6 of The Wishing Moon is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"All? It's enough. I was awake half the night planning to break it to you." "You broke it all right. I'll be going."
Chapter 6 of The Wishing Moon is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/80 · 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.
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
From this reading “I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."”
terminate
From this reading “I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."”
lacking funds
From this reading “"You broke it all right.”
an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
From this reading “It's enough.”
the act of departing
From this reading “I'll be going."”
consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
From this reading “I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."”
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading “I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."”
an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action
From this reading “I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."”
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.
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.
(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 "All?
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading I'll be going."
terminate
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
lacking funds
From this reading "You broke it all right.
an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
From this reading It's enough.
the act of departing
From this reading I'll be going."
consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I'll be going."
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's enough.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
precisely, exactly
From this reading "You broke it all right.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I was awake half the night planning to break it to you."
Chapter 6 of The Wishing Moon by Louise Dutton Fillmore holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 6 holds 400 sentences of The Wishing Moon, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of The Wishing Moon by Louise Dutton Fillmore exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 80 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 6 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 433 minutes of reading across 1041 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Wishing Moon 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 Wishing Moon, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
