Chapter 7 of Mr. Fortune's Practice is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Mr. Fortune's Practice is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.” “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance. Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones. And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic. Big magic.
Chapter 7 of Mr. Fortune's Practice is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
From this reading ““And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.””
3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
From this reading “And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.”
a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
From this reading “Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.”
any art that invokes supernatural powers
From this reading “And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.”
coated with paint
From this reading “Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.”
plural of “pattern” — a perceptual structure
From this reading “Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.”
a relationship between two lovers
From this reading ““Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.”
plural of “stone” — a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading “Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.”
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.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
In this reading “Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.”
In this reading “Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.”
In this reading ““And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.””
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 before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
in the past
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Big magic.
3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
From this reading And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.
a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
a young person of either sex
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
dearly loved
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
regard something as probable or likely
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
any art that invokes supernatural powers
From this reading And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.
the force of workers available
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
a form of address for a man
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
coated with paint
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
plural of “pattern” — a perceptual structure
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
a relationship between two lovers
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
not in physical motion
From this reading And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.
plural of “stone” — a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And I expect some child has swopped it for a green apple.”
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And still in Borneo there’s men making them for magic.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “Lomas dear,” Mr. Fortune expostulated, “this is romance.
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
a late time of life
From this reading Ten thousand years ago the cave men in France painted these patterns on stones.
Chapter 7 of Mr. Fortune's Practice by H. C. (Henry Christopher) Bailey holds 419 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 7 holds 419 sentences of Mr. Fortune's Practice, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Mr. Fortune's Practice by H. C. (Henry Christopher) Bailey exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 419 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.
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