Chapter 10 of Lummox is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Lummox is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Yellow, Willy? His hair bane yellow--like mine?" "It's yellow all right." "He's a big boy, Willy?" "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
Chapter 10 of Lummox is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 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.
something causing misery or death
From this reading “His hair bane yellow--like mine?"”
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “"He's a big boy, Willy?"”
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
From this reading “His hair bane yellow--like mine?"”
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading “"I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."”
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “His hair bane yellow--like mine?"”
past form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading “"I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."”
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
From this reading “"I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."”
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
From this reading “"Yellow, Willy?”
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 “"He's a big boy, Willy?"”
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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 "He's a big boy, Willy?"
(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 "It's yellow all right."
something causing misery or death
From this reading His hair bane yellow--like mine?"
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading "He's a big boy, Willy?"
a youthful male person
From this reading "He's a big boy, Willy?"
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
From this reading His hair bane yellow--like mine?"
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "He's a big boy, Willy?"
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His hair bane yellow--like mine?"
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "It's yellow all right."
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading His hair bane yellow--like mine?"
the one or ones belonging to the person speaking
From this reading His hair bane yellow--like mine?"
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
precisely, exactly
From this reading "It's yellow all right."
past form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Yellow, Willy?
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
From this reading "Yellow, Willy?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "I showed you on the wall--he bane that high."
Chapter 10 of Lummox by Fannie Hurst holds 410 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 10 holds 410 sentences of Lummox, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Lummox by Fannie Hurst exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 410 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 10 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in Lummox, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
