Chapter 3 of Winona is here in full — 222 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Winona is here in full — 222 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Murder!” The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room. “Murder!” ejaculated old Nokomis, aghast. “It is a mistake. Who would kill White Eagle?
Chapter 3 of Winona is here in full — 222 sentences across 45 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.
struck with fear, dread, or consternation
From this reading ““Murder!” ejaculated old Nokomis, aghast.”
any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
From this reading “Who would kill White Eagle?”
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
From this reading “The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.”
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
From this reading “Who would kill White Eagle?”
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading ““It is a mistake.”
kill intentionally and with premeditation
From this reading ““Murder!””
sound loudly and sonorously
From this reading “The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.”
marked by absence of sound
From this reading “The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.”
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In this reading “The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.”
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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 “It is a mistake.
struck with fear, dread, or consternation
From this reading “Murder!” ejaculated old Nokomis, aghast.
any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
From this reading Who would kill White Eagle?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Murder!” ejaculated old Nokomis, aghast.
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “It is a mistake.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “It is a mistake.
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
From this reading Who would kill White Eagle?
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading “It is a mistake.
kill intentionally and with premeditation
From this reading “Murder!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Murder!” ejaculated old Nokomis, aghast.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading “Murder!” ejaculated old Nokomis, aghast.
sound loudly and sonorously
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
marked by absence of sound
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
a Caucasian
From this reading Who would kill White Eagle?
which person or people
From this reading Who would kill White Eagle?
a unit of language that native speakers can identify
From this reading The gruesome word seemed to ring through the silent room.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Who would kill White Eagle?
Chapter 3 of Winona by Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) Hopkins holds 222 sentences, grouped into 45 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 222 sentences of Winona, unabridged, divided into 45 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Winona by Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) Hopkins exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 222 sentences, grouped into 45 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 45 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 45 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.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 3 can be played aloud in United States English.
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 230 minutes of reading across 554 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Winona section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Winona, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
