Chapter 10 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 10 of Mr. Fortune's Practice is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested. “I took them, yes--and then I lost them. I’m most awfully sorry about that.” “Are you indeed. Am I to believe this tale, Colonel Beach?
Chapter 10 of Mr. Fortune's Practice is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
used as intensifiers
From this reading “I’m most awfully sorry about that.””
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
From this reading ““Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.”
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading ““Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.”
a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
From this reading ““Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.”
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading ““I took them, yes--and then I lost them.”
past form of “protest” — utter words of protest
From this reading ““Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.”
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
From this reading “I’m most awfully sorry about that.””
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading “Am I to believe this tale, Colonel Beach?”
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 “I’m most awfully sorry about that.””
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 “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading I’m most awfully sorry about that.”
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading Am I to believe this tale, Colonel Beach?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “I took them, yes--and then I lost them.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “Are you indeed.
used as intensifiers
From this reading I’m most awfully sorry about that.”
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
accept as true; take to be true
From this reading Am I to believe this tale, Colonel Beach?
a young person of either sex
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I took them, yes--and then I lost them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I’m most awfully sorry about that.”
in truth (often tends to intensify)
From this reading “Are you indeed.
a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
From this reading “I took them, yes--and then I lost them.
used to form the superlative
From this reading I’m most awfully sorry about that.”
past form of “protest” — utter words of protest
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
From this reading I’m most awfully sorry about that.”
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading Am I to believe this tale, Colonel Beach?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I’m most awfully sorry about that.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading “I took them, yes--and then I lost them.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Am I to believe this tale, Colonel Beach?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Am I to believe this tale, Colonel Beach?
inflected form of “take” — carry out
From this reading “Come, come, the child took them for a joke,” Colonel Beach protested.
an affirmative
From this reading “I took them, yes--and then I lost them.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Are you indeed.
Chapter 10 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 10 holds 419 sentences of Mr. Fortune's Practice, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 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.
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 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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How to work through Mr. Fortune's Practice section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Mr. Fortune's Practice, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
