Chapter 4 of Michael O'Halloran is here in full — 621 sentences across 125 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter IV
Chapter 4 of Michael O'Halloran is here in full — 621 sentences across 125 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey. "I guess I got everything," she answered. "There's my lunch. Here's my pictures to cut. Here's my lesson to learn.
Chapter 4 of Michael O'Halloran is here in full — 621 sentences across 125 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.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “"I guess I got everything," she answered.”
gain knowledge or skills
From this reading “Here's my lesson to learn.”
a unit of instruction
From this reading “Here's my lesson to learn.”
any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
From this reading “_Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.”
take the midday meal
From this reading “"There's my lunch.”
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent
From this reading “_Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.”
plural of “picture” — a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
From this reading “Here's my pictures to cut.”
comparative of “short” — primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading “_Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading "I guess I got everything," she answered.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
separate with or as if with an instrument
From this reading Here's my pictures to cut.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading "I guess I got everything," she answered.
the act of departing
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "I guess I got everything," she answered.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading "I guess I got everything," she answered.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Here's my pictures to cut.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
gain knowledge or skills
From this reading Here's my lesson to learn.
a unit of instruction
From this reading Here's my lesson to learn.
any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
take the midday meal
From this reading "There's my lunch.
engage in
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "There's my lunch.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
plural of “picture” — a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
From this reading Here's my pictures to cut.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "I guess I got everything," she answered.
comparative of “short” — primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "There's my lunch.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
but in spite of that
From this reading _Little Brother_ "Now what am I going to do yet to make the day shorter, Lily?" asked Mickey.
Chapter 4 of Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter holds 621 sentences, grouped into 125 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 621 sentences of Michael O'Halloran, unabridged, divided into 125 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 621 sentences, grouped into 125 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 125 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 125 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 4 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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