Chapter 13 of Australian fairy tales is here in full — 74 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of Australian fairy tales is here in full — 74 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Take your places. Turn down the lights. We are going to open our magic lantern once more. Ho Presto! Here we are in Victoria.
Chapter 13 of Australian fairy tales is here in full — 74 sentences across 15 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/14 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
light in a transparent protective case
From this reading “We are going to open our magic lantern once more.”
plural of “light” — (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
From this reading “Turn down the lights.”
any art that invokes supernatural powers
From this reading “We are going to open our magic lantern once more.”
To move from a closed position.
From this reading “We are going to open our magic lantern once more.”
plural of “place” — a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading “Take your places.”
suddenly
From this reading “Ho Presto!”
change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
From this reading “Turn down the lights.”
queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
From this reading “Here we are in Victoria.”
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.
an early form of slide projector
In this reading “We are going to open our magic lantern once more.”
anew
In this reading “We are going to open our magic lantern once more.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Turn down the lights.
the act of departing
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Here we are in Victoria.
a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
From this reading Ho Presto!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Here we are in Victoria.
light in a transparent protective case
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
plural of “light” — (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
From this reading Turn down the lights.
any art that invokes supernatural powers
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
on one occasion
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
plural of “place” — a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading Take your places.
suddenly
From this reading Ho Presto!
carry out
From this reading Take your places.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Turn down the lights.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
From this reading Turn down the lights.
queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
From this reading Here we are in Victoria.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We are going to open our magic lantern once more.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Take your places.
Chapter 13 of Australian fairy tales by Atha Westbury holds 74 sentences, grouped into 15 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 13 holds 74 sentences of Australian fairy tales, unabridged, divided into 15 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 13 of Australian fairy tales by Atha Westbury exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 74 sentences, grouped into 15 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 15 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 15 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 13 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 317 minutes of reading across 762 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Australian fairy tales section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Australian fairy tales, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
