Chapter 1 of Wind in Her Hair is here in full — 456 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Wind in Her Hair is here in full — 456 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world. And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen. "Marte!" His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter. "Marte!"
Chapter 1 of Wind in Her Hair is here in full — 456 sentences across 92 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.
conceived of or imagined or hoped for
From this reading “And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.”
past form of “echo” — to say again or imitate
From this reading “His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.”
suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
From this reading “His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.”
comparative of “faint” — deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
From this reading “His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.”
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading “To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.”
(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light
From this reading “And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.”
tending to return to an earlier state
From this reading “And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.”
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
From this reading “His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.”
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.
In this reading “And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.”
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 And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
conceived of or imagined or hoped for
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
past form of “echo” — to say again or imitate
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
comparative of “faint” — deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
in a hollow manner
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
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From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
tending to return to an earlier state
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
transport commercially
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
From this reading His voice echoed hollowly, dying away to an eerie whisper, fainter and fainter.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading To Marte and Johnny Nine the space ship was their world.
but in spite of that
From this reading And yet they dreamed of returning home to Earth ... a planet they had never seen.
Chapter 1 of Wind in Her Hair by Kris Neville holds 456 sentences, grouped into 92 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 1 holds 456 sentences of Wind in Her Hair, unabridged, divided into 92 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Wind in Her Hair by Kris Neville exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 456 sentences, grouped into 92 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 92 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 75 minutes of reading across 182 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Wind in Her Hair, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
