Chapter 5 of Twelfth Night is here in full — 177 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Twelfth Night is here in full — 177 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
To. And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then? Mal. Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To. What, what?
Chapter 5 of Twelfth Night is here in full — 177 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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exhale hard
From this reading “And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?”
put or send forth
From this reading “Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.”
possessive form of “do” — an uproarious party
From this reading “And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?”
plural of “fortune” — an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading “Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.”
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
From this reading “Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.”
the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
From this reading “Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.”
carry out
From this reading “And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?”
a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-cornered hat
From this reading “And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
exhale hard
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
put or send forth
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
possessive form of “do” — an uproarious party
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
plural of “fortune” — an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
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From this reading Mal.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
carry out
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To.
a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-cornered hat
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What, what?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
Chapter 5 of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare holds 177 sentences, grouped into 36 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 177 sentences of Twelfth Night, unabridged, divided into 36 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 177 sentences, grouped into 36 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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