Chapter 4 of Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Ay, got two kids.” “Wisht I had. Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair. See here, you ever had a garden?” “No.”
Chapter 4 of Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a youthful male person
From this reading “Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.”
United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
From this reading “Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.”
a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading “See here, you ever had a garden?””
coins made of gold
From this reading “Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.”
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
From this reading “Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.”
plural of “kid” — a young person of either sex
From this reading ““Ay, got two kids.””
having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior
From this reading “Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.”
by chance
From this reading “Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.”
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 “Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.”
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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 See here, you ever had a garden?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Ay, got two kids.”
a youthful male person
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
at any time
From this reading See here, you ever had a garden?”
United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading See here, you ever had a garden?”
coins made of gold
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “Ay, got two kids.”
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading “Wisht I had.
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading See here, you ever had a garden?”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “Wisht I had.
plural of “kid” — a young person of either sex
From this reading “Ay, got two kids.”
having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
by chance
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
not any; not one
From this reading “No.”
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 Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading See here, you ever had a garden?”
in spite of the fact that
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading “Ay, got two kids.”
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Wisht I had.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Maybe I will, though—little boy ’n’ gal, with kind o’ gold hair.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading See here, you ever had a garden?”
Chapter 4 of Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall holds 418 sentences, grouped into 84 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 4 holds 418 sentences of Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 418 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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 4 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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How to work through Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
