Chapter 5 of The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol is here in full — 174 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol is here in full — 174 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"'TIS TIME." Ding-dong, ding-dong! Clang!--go the little and great church bells. Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles. The Tyrol is up!
Chapter 5 of The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol is here in full — 174 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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strike violently
From this reading “Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.”
plural of “bell” — a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
From this reading “Clang!--go the little and great church bells.”
a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
From this reading “Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.”
a loud resonant repeating noise
From this reading “Clang!--go the little and great church bells.”
become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
From this reading “Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.”
the noise made by a bell
From this reading “Ding-dong, ding-dong!”
plural of “rifle” — a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
From this reading “Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.”
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading “"'TIS TIME."”
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a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church)
In this reading “Clang!--go the little and great church bells.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
strike violently
From this reading Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.
plural of “bell” — a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
From this reading Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.
one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
a loud resonant repeating noise
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
From this reading Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.
the noise made by a bell
From this reading Ding-dong, ding-dong!
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The Tyrol is up!
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
plural of “rifle” — a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
From this reading Bang! go the cannon; crack, crack! the rifles.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Clang!--go the little and great church bells.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading "'TIS TIME."
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading "'TIS TIME."
a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy
From this reading The Tyrol is up!
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading The Tyrol is up!
Chapter 5 of The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol by Anne Manning holds 174 sentences, grouped into 35 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 5 holds 174 sentences of The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol, unabridged, divided into 35 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of The Year Nine: A Tale of the Tyrol by Anne Manning exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 174 sentences, grouped into 35 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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