Chapter 10 of Veiled Women is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Veiled Women is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“O wretched day! O death of honour! O calamity! Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father? Yet death has reached her--poison!
Chapter 10 of Veiled Women is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/23 · 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.
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
From this reading “O calamity!”
the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury
From this reading “Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?”
an old form of “did”, used with “thou”
From this reading “Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?”
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading “Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?”
the state of being honored
From this reading “O death of honour!”
spoil as if by poison
From this reading “Yet death has reached her--poison!”
utter obscenities or profanities
From this reading “Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?”
of very poor quality or condition
From this reading ““O wretched day!”
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.
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an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
From this reading O calamity!
the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading “O wretched day!
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading O death of honour!
an old form of “did”, used with “thou”
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Yet death has reached her--poison!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Yet death has reached her--poison!
the state of being honored
From this reading O death of honour!
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
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 “O wretched day!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading O death of honour!
spoil as if by poison
From this reading Yet death has reached her--poison!
past form of “reach” — reach a destination, either real or abstract
From this reading Yet death has reached her--poison!
utter obscenities or profanities
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Didst thou not swear to guard my love from danger, O my father?
of very poor quality or condition
From this reading “O wretched day!
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet death has reached her--poison!
Chapter 10 of Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall holds 119 sentences, grouped into 24 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 10 holds 119 sentences of Veiled Women, unabridged, divided into 24 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 119 sentences, grouped into 24 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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