Chapter 7 of Lonesome Town is here in full — 138 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Lonesome Town is here in full — 138 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Sixty-fourth and Central Park East. Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.” The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb. “Where away, now?” “Nowhere away.
Chapter 7 of Lonesome Town is here in full — 138 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/27 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a formal public statement
From this reading “The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.”
a line of approach
From this reading “Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.””
a person who exercises control over workers
From this reading “Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.””
serving as an essential component
From this reading ““Sixty-fourth and Central Park East.”
an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
From this reading “The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.”
the operator of a motor vehicle
From this reading “The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.”
a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
From this reading “Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.””
an insignificant place
From this reading ““Nowhere away.”
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 “The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.”
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 “Sixty-fourth and Central Park East.
a formal public statement
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
a line of approach
From this reading Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.”
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “Where away, now?”
at or toward the back of something
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
a person who exercises control over workers
From this reading Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.”
serving as an essential component
From this reading “Sixty-fourth and Central Park East.
an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
the operator of a motor vehicle
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
From this reading “Sixty-fourth and Central Park East.
a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
From this reading Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading “Where away, now?”
an insignificant place
From this reading “Nowhere away.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
in other respects or ways
From this reading Otherwise Fifth Avenue, boss.”
a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property
From this reading “Sixty-fourth and Central Park East.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
one part in sixty-four equal parts
From this reading “Sixty-fourth and Central Park East.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
change directions as if revolving on a pivot
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
in or at the place that
From this reading “Where away, now?”
a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
From this reading The driver of the pink-and-gray made the announcement through the open window behind the wheel seat as he drew up at the park-side curb.
Chapter 7 of Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance holds 138 sentences, grouped into 28 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 138 sentences of Lonesome Town, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 138 sentences, grouped into 28 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 28 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 415 minutes of reading across 998 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Lonesome Town, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
