Chapter 1 of Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
O strength of tongue how awful! O power of lungs how mighty! Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply? Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty? Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
Chapter 1 of Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 81/84 · 5 reading units · Lines 401–405
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.
characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
From this reading “Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?”
unvarying in nature
From this reading “Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?”
guided by whim and fancy
From this reading “Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?”
arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
From this reading “Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?”
plural of “lung” — either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
From this reading “O power of lungs how mighty!”
plural of “metaphor” — a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
From this reading “Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?”
give something useful or necessary to
From this reading “Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?”
an old word meaning “from where”
From this reading “Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading O strength of tongue how awful!
characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
From this reading Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
unvarying in nature
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
cause to move by pulling
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
guided by whim and fancy
From this reading Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?
plural of “gentleman” — a man of refinement
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O strength of tongue how awful!
arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
From this reading Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?
plural of “lung” — either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
From this reading O power of lungs how mighty!
plural of “metaphor” — a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
From this reading Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
having or showing great strength or force or intensity
From this reading O power of lungs how mighty!
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 strength of tongue how awful!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading O strength of tongue how awful!
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Whence comes your inspiration, belligerent or flighty?
possession of controlling influence
From this reading O power of lungs how mighty!
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
the property of being physically or mentally strong
From this reading O strength of tongue how awful!
give something useful or necessary to
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Your common-place that grovels and your metaphors so high?
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading O strength of tongue how awful!
an old word meaning “from where”
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
Chapter 1 of Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 by Various holds 422 sentences, grouped into 85 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 422 sentences of Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 422 sentences, grouped into 85 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 85 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 85 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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About 68 minutes of reading across 166 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
