Chapter 4 of The Mysterious Traveller is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of The Mysterious Traveller is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“So that the cigar....” “Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.” “And the letters?” “Written by me.” “And the mysterious correspondent?”
Chapter 4 of The Mysterious Traveller is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/88 · 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.
a roll of tobacco for smoking
From this reading ““So that the cigar....””
someone who communicates by means of letters
From this reading ““And the mysterious correspondent?””
past form of “hollow” — remove the inner part or the core of
From this reading ““Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.””
edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
From this reading ““Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.””
the literary culture
From this reading ““And the letters?””
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading ““Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.””
of an obscure nature
From this reading ““And the mysterious correspondent?””
set down in writing in any of various ways
From this reading ““Written by me.””
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.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And the letters?”
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading “Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.”
showing who or what does the action
From this reading “Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.”
a roll of tobacco for smoking
From this reading “So that the cigar....”
someone who communicates by means of letters
From this reading “And the mysterious correspondent?”
past form of “hollow” — remove the inner part or the core of
From this reading “Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.”
edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
From this reading “Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.”
the literary culture
From this reading “And the letters?”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Written by me.”
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading “Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.”
of an obscure nature
From this reading “And the mysterious correspondent?”
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “So that the cigar....”
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “So that the cigar....”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “So that the cigar....”
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Hollowed by myself, as well as the knife.”
set down in writing in any of various ways
From this reading “Written by me.”
Chapter 4 of The Mysterious Traveller by Maurice Leblanc holds 440 sentences, grouped into 88 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 440 sentences of The Mysterious Traveller, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of The Mysterious Traveller by Maurice Leblanc exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 440 sentences, grouped into 88 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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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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