Chapter 3 of Two-Legs is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Two-Legs is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
At last the horse got tired. He stood still quivering in all his limbs. The foam flew from his mouth. “What do you want with me?” he said. “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
Chapter 3 of Two-Legs is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 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.
the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
From this reading ““My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.””
inflected form of “fly” — travel through the air; be airborne
From this reading “The foam flew from his mouth.”
a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
From this reading “The foam flew from his mouth.”
plural of “limb” — one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
From this reading “He stood still quivering in all his limbs.”
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading ““My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.””
a shaky motion
From this reading “He stood still quivering in all his limbs.”
depleted of strength or energy
From this reading “At last the horse got tired.”
a fabric made from the hair of sheep
From this reading ““My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.””
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.
make a break in
In this reading ““My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.””
In this reading “He stood still quivering in all his limbs.”
In this reading “At last the horse got tired.”
In this reading “He stood still quivering in all his limbs.”
In this reading “The foam flew from his mouth.”
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 He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At last the horse got tired.
separate with or as if with an instrument
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “What do you want with me?” he said.
take in solid food
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
inflected form of “fly” — travel through the air; be airborne
From this reading The foam flew from his mouth.
a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
From this reading The foam flew from his mouth.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The foam flew from his mouth.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading At last the horse got tired.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
From this reading At last the horse got tired.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
immediately past
From this reading At last the horse got tired.
plural of “limb” — one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
From this reading He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “What do you want with me?” he said.
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
From this reading The foam flew from his mouth.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
not any; not one
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
a shaky motion
From this reading He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “What do you want with me?” he said.
not in physical motion
From this reading He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading He stood still quivering in all his limbs.
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading At last the horse got tired.
depleted of strength or energy
From this reading At last the horse got tired.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading “What do you want with me?” he said.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What do you want with me?” he said.
in the company of; together with
From this reading “What do you want with me?” he said.
a fabric made from the hair of sheep
From this reading “My flesh is not nice to eat and my milk isn’t sweet and I have no wool for you to cut off.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “What do you want with me?” he said.
Chapter 3 of Two-Legs by Carl Ewald holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 3 holds 417 sentences of Two-Legs, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Two-Legs by Carl Ewald exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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.
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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 210 minutes of reading across 506 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Two-Legs section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Two-Legs, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
