Chapter 1 of Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 is here in full — 632 sentences across 127 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 is here in full — 632 sentences across 127 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it! Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India. But all this has to be done after the first step is taken. England must scuttle out of Egypt. _England_.
Chapter 1 of Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 is here in full — 632 sentences across 127 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 27/126 · 5 reading units · Lines 131–135
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.
commonly used or practiced; usual
From this reading “Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!”
a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
From this reading “Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.”
a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
From this reading “England must scuttle out of Egypt.”
pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
From this reading “Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!”
a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
From this reading “Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.”
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.”
with low volume
From this reading “Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.”
to move about or proceed hurriedly
From this reading “England must scuttle out of Egypt.”
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.
commonly used or practiced; usual
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
later than; following
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
(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 But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
From this reading England must scuttle out of Egypt.
a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading England must scuttle out of Egypt.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
engage in
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading England must scuttle out of Egypt.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading England must scuttle out of Egypt.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading England must scuttle out of Egypt.
with low volume
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
to move about or proceed hurriedly
From this reading England must scuttle out of Egypt.
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
in the near future
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading But all this has to be done after the first step is taken.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Oh, you would soon grow accustomed to it!
Chapter 1 of Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 by Various holds 632 sentences, grouped into 127 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 1 holds 632 sentences of Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891, unabridged, divided into 127 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 632 sentences, grouped into 127 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 127 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 127 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 1 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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