Chapter 9 of Country Luck is here in full — 93 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter IX
Chapter 9 of Country Luck is here in full — 93 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
NEWS, YET NO NEWS. “Any letters?” “Not a letter.” “Sho!” Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
Chapter 9 of Country Luck is here in full — 93 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/18 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
plural of “actor” — a theatrical performer
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
provide with clothes or put clothes on
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
the period of time during which something continues
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
a person who operates a farm
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
a performance using gestures and body movements without words
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
tested and proved useful or correct
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
From this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
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 “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
In this reading “Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 “Not a letter.”
the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
plural of “actor” — a theatrical performer
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading “Any letters?”
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
provide with clothes or put clothes on
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
the period of time during which something continues
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
a person who operates a farm
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
a written message addressed to a person or organization
From this reading “Not a letter.”
the literary culture
From this reading “Any letters?”
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
information about recent and important events
From this reading NEWS, YET NO NEWS.
not any; not one
From this reading NEWS, YET NO NEWS.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Not a letter.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
a performance using gestures and body movements without words
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Sho!”
tested and proved useful or correct
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
the words that are spoken
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Farmer Hayn and his wife would have made good actors, if tested by their ability to clothe a few words with pantomime of much variety and duration.
but in spite of that
From this reading NEWS, YET NO NEWS.
Chapter 9 of Country Luck by John Habberton holds 93 sentences, grouped into 19 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 9 holds 93 sentences of Country Luck, unabridged, divided into 19 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Country Luck by John Habberton exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 93 sentences, grouped into 19 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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