Chapter 1 of The Wounded Name is here in full — 668 sentences across 134 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of The Wounded Name is here in full — 668 sentences across 134 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!" _Hamlet_, Act v. Sc. 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted? When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
Chapter 1 of The Wounded Name is here in full — 668 sentences across 134 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
From this reading “When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.”
well in the past; former
From this reading “When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.”
a community of people smaller than a village
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 “Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"”
not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
From this reading “2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?”
plural of “revel” — unrestrained merrymaking
From this reading “When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.”
not known
From this reading “Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"”
people who are wounded
From this reading “Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"”
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From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
From this reading _Hamlet_, Act v.
(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 When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
at or toward the back of something
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
well in the past; former
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
a community of people smaller than a village
From this reading _Hamlet_, Act v.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
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 Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
plural of “revel” — unrestrained merrymaking
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite
From this reading Sc.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
having a supporting base
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading 2 "How shall I find that friend Of the rare friends, the deep-hearted?
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
not known
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt
From this reading _Hamlet_, Act v.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
at the time that
From this reading When the delicate revels end And the maskers have all departed.
people who are wounded
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923 "O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
Chapter 1 of The Wounded Name by D. K. (Dorothy Kathleen) Broster holds 668 sentences, grouped into 134 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 668 sentences of The Wounded Name, unabridged, divided into 134 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Wounded Name by D. K. (Dorothy Kathleen) Broster exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 668 sentences, grouped into 134 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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