Chapter 22 of Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 22 of Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase. The Sunday morning was a gloomy one. I attended service at church with my family. The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached. The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
Chapter 22 of Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery is here in full — 200 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment
From this reading “I attended service at church with my family.”
refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
From this reading “The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.”
depressingly dark
From this reading “The Sunday morning was a gloomy one.”
past form of “preach” — deliver a sermon
From this reading “The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached.”
the acquisition of something for payment
From this reading “Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.”
of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible
From this reading “The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.”
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
From this reading “The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.”
the words of something written
From this reading “The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.”
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.
a late time of life
In this reading “Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.”
In this reading “The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
how long something has existed
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body
From this reading The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached.
refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached.
a social unit living together
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
Not remembered; lapsed from memory.
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
depressingly dark
From this reading The Sunday morning was a gloomy one.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
of or relating to or characteristic of literature
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading The Sunday morning was a gloomy one.
a form of address for a man
From this reading The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading The Sunday morning was a gloomy one.
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
past form of “preach” — deliver a sermon
From this reading The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached.
the acquisition of something for payment
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
To recall to mind.
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
work done by one person or group that benefits another
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
estrangement from god
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
the words of something written
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Sunday Night—Sleep, Sin, and Old Age—The Dream—Lanikin Figure—A Literary Purchase.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The Sunday morning was a gloomy one.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading The text I have forgotten, but I remember perfectly well that the sermon was scriptural and elegant.
in the company of; together with
From this reading I attended service at church with my family.
used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father
From this reading The service was in English, and the younger Mr. E— preached.
Chapter 22 of Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow holds 200 sentences, grouped into 40 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.
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