Chapter 12 of Lummox is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Lummox is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face. The vicious, drooly, half-wit mask. "I know! You! You done it!
Chapter 12 of Lummox is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 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.
an upholstered seat for more than one person
From this reading “Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.”
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
From this reading “Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.”
be suspended or hanging
From this reading “Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.”
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading “Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.”
held dear
From this reading “Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.”
hide under a false appearance
From this reading “The vicious, drooly, half-wit mask.”
happening unexpectedly
From this reading “Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.”
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
From this reading “The vicious, drooly, half-wit mask.”
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 “Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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an upholstered seat for more than one person
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading You done it!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The vicious, drooly, half-wit mask.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
a person of subnormal intelligence
From this reading The vicious, drooly, half-wit mask.
be suspended or hanging
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I know!
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading You done it!
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading "I know!
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
held dear
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
hide under a false appearance
From this reading The vicious, drooly, half-wit mask.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
above and across; more than
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
happening unexpectedly
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
From this reading The vicious, drooly, half-wit mask.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Suddenly Willie leaped up, the grimace he loved to hang over her couch on his face.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You!
Chapter 12 of Lummox by Fannie Hurst holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 12 holds 416 sentences of Lummox, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Lummox by Fannie Hurst exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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 12 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 600 minutes of reading across 1527 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Lummox, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
