Chapter 7 of Angling Sketches is here in full — 123 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Angling Sketches is here in full — 123 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
* * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative. I leave it to the judgment of women and of men. Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted? Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes? Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
Chapter 7 of Angling Sketches is here in full — 123 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/24 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
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From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
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From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
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From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
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From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
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From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
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From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
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From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
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From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading * * * * * Thus ends my hapless friend's narrative.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I leave it to the judgment of women and of men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Men, my brethren, would ye have deserted the salmon for the lady, or the lady for the salmon?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ladies, would you have acted as Olive Dunne acted?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Would pride, or pardon, or mirth have ridden sparkling in your eyes?
Chapter 7 of Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang holds 123 sentences, grouped into 25 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 7 holds 123 sentences of Angling Sketches, unabridged, divided into 25 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 123 sentences, grouped into 25 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 25 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 25 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 7 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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