Chapter 4 of Mackinac and Lake Stories is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Mackinac and Lake Stories is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.” “Justice no good. Justice hang. Frank Chibam want me go down like stone. Frank Chibam drive me back where he went down.
Chapter 4 of Mackinac and Lake Stories is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 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.
confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
From this reading ““My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.””
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading “Frank Chibam drive me back where he went down.”
characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
From this reading “Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.”
be suspended or hanging
From this reading “Justice hang.”
the quality of being just or fair
From this reading ““My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.””
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading “Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.”
experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
From this reading ““My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.””
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading ““My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.””
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.
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
In this reading “Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.”
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 “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Frank Chibam drive me back where he went down.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading Frank Chibam drive me back where he went down.
characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading “Justice no good.
be suspended or hanging
From this reading Justice hang.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Frank Chibam drive me back where he went down.
the quality of being just or fair
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
not any; not one
From this reading “Justice no good.
a male human offspring
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading Frank Chibam want me go down like stone.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Frank Chibam drive me back where he went down.
in or at the place that
From this reading Frank Chibam drive me back where he went down.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading “My unhappy son, you must confess and give yourself up to justice.”
Chapter 4 of Mackinac and Lake Stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood holds 405 sentences, grouped into 81 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 4 holds 405 sentences of Mackinac and Lake Stories, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Mackinac and Lake Stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 405 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Mackinac and Lake Stories, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
