Chapter 7 of Experience is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of Experience is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up. ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’ ’Oh,’ said Ross, and tried one. ’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave. I can light my own pipe.’
Chapter 7 of Experience is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
arousing or provoking laughter
From this reading “’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.”
plural of “match” — lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
From this reading “’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’”
the quantity of a crop that is harvested
From this reading “’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.”
a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
From this reading “I can light my own pipe.’”
Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
From this reading “’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.”
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading “’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.”
plural of “spill” — liquid that is spilled
From this reading “’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’”
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
From this reading “’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.”
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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 “’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.”
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 ’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ’Oh,’ said Ross, and tried one.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
From this reading ’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading I can light my own pipe.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
start firing a weapon
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
arousing or provoking laughter
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I can light my own pipe.’
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading ’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.
of comparatively little physical weight or density
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
plural of “match” — lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I can light my own pipe.’
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading ’Oh,’ said Ross, and tried one.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
have ownership or possession of
From this reading I can light my own pipe.’
the quantity of a crop that is harvested
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
From this reading I can light my own pipe.’
Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
From this reading ’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.
term of address for a man
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
plural of “spill” — liquid that is spilled
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading ’Spills, sir, light them at the fire, sir; can’t get matches.’
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading ’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.
tested and proved useful or correct
From this reading ’Oh,’ said Ross, and tried one.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
From this reading ’Why, Sam, this is a brain wave.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading ’Why these funny things?’ said Ross, picking one up.
Chapter 7 of Experience by Catherine (Catherine M.) Cotton holds 409 sentences, grouped into 82 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 7 holds 409 sentences of Experience, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Experience by Catherine (Catherine M.) Cotton exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 409 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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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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