Chapter 17 of Kangaroo is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XVII
Chapter 17 of Kangaroo is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Bushranger? But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond. You just walk out of the world and into Australia. And it’s just somewhere else. All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
Chapter 17 of Kangaroo is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
From this reading “But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.”
possessive form of “australia” — a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
on the far side of; further than
From this reading “But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.”
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
From this reading “But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.”
-ing form of “fuss” — worry unnecessarily or excessively
From this reading “All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.”
plural of “nation” — a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading “All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.”
in or at or to some place
From this reading “And it’s just somewhere else.”
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading “You just walk out of the world and into Australia.”
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.
the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries
In this reading “But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.”
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.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
possessive form of “australia” — a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
at or toward the back of something
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
on the far side of; further than
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Bushranger?
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And it’s just somewhere else.
-ing form of “fuss” — worry unnecessarily or excessively
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And it’s just somewhere else.
and nothing more
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
plural of “nation” — a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
in or at or to some place
From this reading And it’s just somewhere else.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading All those nations left behind in their schoolrooms, fussing.
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
in the company of; together with
From this reading But Australia’s like an open door with the blue beyond.
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You just walk out of the world and into Australia.
Chapter 17 of Kangaroo by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence 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 17 holds 409 sentences of Kangaroo, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of Kangaroo by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence 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.
Each of the 82 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 17 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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