Chapter 2 of Hurlothrumbo is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Hurlothrumbo is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_King._ O Heaven! _Cad._ Oh Angels! _King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall. _Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid. _King._ Oh my _Cademore_, live!
Chapter 2 of Hurlothrumbo is here in full — 389 sentences across 78 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.
a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do
From this reading “_Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid.”
plural of “angel” — spiritual being attendant upon God
From this reading “_Cad._ Oh Angels!”
come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
From this reading “_King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.”
someone who is morally reprehensible
descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
From this reading “_King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.”
any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
From this reading “_King._ O Heaven!”
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading “_King._ Oh my _Cademore_, live!”
with speed
From this reading “_Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid.”
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.
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a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.
plural of “angel” — spiritual being attendant upon God
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Angels!
come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
From this reading _King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.
someone who is morally reprehensible
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Angels!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _King._ Oh my _Cademore_, live!
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid.
descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
From this reading _King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading _King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.
any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
From this reading _King._ O Heaven!
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
From this reading _King._ O Heaven!
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading _King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading _King._ Oh my _Cademore_, live!
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading _King._ Burst Heart, and let me fall.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading _King._ O Heaven!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Angels!
with speed
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _Cad._ Oh Death! quickly to my Aid.
Chapter 2 of Hurlothrumbo by Samuel Johnson holds 389 sentences, grouped into 78 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 2 holds 389 sentences of Hurlothrumbo, unabridged, divided into 78 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Hurlothrumbo by Samuel Johnson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 389 sentences, grouped into 78 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 78 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 78 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 2 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 64 minutes of reading across 156 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Hurlothrumbo, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
