Chapter 6 of Yuletide entertainments is here in full — 592 sentences across 119 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Yuletide entertainments is here in full — 592 sentences across 119 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SANTA. Birds! I never heard of such a thing. Birds injure them when they have grown to that size? DEENO.
Chapter 6 of Yuletide entertainments is here in full — 592 sentences across 119 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading “Birds!”
(of animals) fully developed
From this reading “Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?”
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading “I never heard of such a thing.”
cause injuries or bodily harm to
From this reading “Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?”
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading “I never heard of such a thing.”
the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas
From this reading “SANTA.”
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
From this reading “Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?”
a special situation
From this reading “I never heard of such a thing.”
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In this reading “I never heard of such a thing.”
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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 I never heard of such a thing.
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading Birds!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading DEENO.
(of animals) fully developed
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading I never heard of such a thing.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I never heard of such a thing.
cause injuries or bodily harm to
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading I never heard of such a thing.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I never heard of such a thing.
the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas
From this reading SANTA.
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading I never heard of such a thing.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
a special situation
From this reading I never heard of such a thing.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
at the time that
From this reading Birds injure them when they have grown to that size?
Chapter 6 of Yuletide entertainments by Ellen M. (Ellen Melville) Willard holds 592 sentences, grouped into 119 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 6 holds 592 sentences of Yuletide entertainments, unabridged, divided into 119 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Yuletide entertainments by Ellen M. (Ellen Melville) Willard exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 592 sentences, grouped into 119 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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