Chapter 9 of Peccavi is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter IX
Chapter 9 of Peccavi is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Where shall we plant ut? Which is his winder?" "That there near the end. O Lord, what a lark!" "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
Chapter 9 of Peccavi is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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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.
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading “"Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.”
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading “"That there near the end.”
North American songbirds having a yellow breast
From this reading “O Lord, what a lark!"”
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading “O Lord, what a lark!"”
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading “"That there near the end.”
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
From this reading “"Where shall we plant ut?”
a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism)
From this reading “Which is his winder?"”
an affirmative
From this reading “"Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.”
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 “"Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.”
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 O Lord, what a lark!"
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading "That there near the end.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Which is his winder?"
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Which is his winder?"
North American songbirds having a yellow breast
From this reading O Lord, what a lark!"
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading O Lord, what a lark!"
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading "That there near the end.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O Lord, what a lark!"
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
From this reading "Where shall we plant ut?
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading "Where shall we plant ut?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "That there near the end.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "That there near the end.
in or at that place or location
From this reading "That there near the end.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere
From this reading "Where shall we plant ut?
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "Where shall we plant ut?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading O Lord, what a lark!"
in or at the place that
From this reading "Where shall we plant ut?
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Which is his winder?"
during the time that
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism)
From this reading Which is his winder?"
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Yes--to think he come talkun to me while you was all in the barn.
Chapter 9 of Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung holds 401 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 9 holds 401 sentences of Peccavi, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 401 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.
Each of the 81 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 9 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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