Chapter 16 of Show Boat is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of Show Boat is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.” Here he was at home. Here were excitement, luxury, companionship. Here he was Gaylord Ravenal. Fortune lurked just around the corner.
Chapter 16 of Show Boat is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 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.
the state of being with someone
From this reading “Here were excitement, luxury, companionship.”
the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
From this reading “Here were excitement, luxury, companionship.”
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading “Fortune lurked just around the corner.”
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading “This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.””
past form of “lurk” — lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
From this reading “Fortune lurked just around the corner.”
something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
From this reading “Here were excitement, luxury, companionship.”
device for converting sound waves into electrical energy
From this reading “This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.””
a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
From this reading “This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.””
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 “Fortune lurked just around the corner.”
a reception held in your own home
In this reading “Here he was at home.”
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.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading Fortune lurked just around the corner.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
the state of being with someone
From this reading Here were excitement, luxury, companionship.
a place off to the side of an area
From this reading Fortune lurked just around the corner.
the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
From this reading Here were excitement, luxury, companionship.
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading Fortune lurked just around the corner.
set up or found
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Here he was Gaylord Ravenal.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Here he was at home.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading Here he was at home.
and nothing more
From this reading Fortune lurked just around the corner.
past form of “lurk” — lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
From this reading Fortune lurked just around the corner.
something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
From this reading Here were excitement, luxury, companionship.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
device for converting sound waves into electrical energy
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Here he was Gaylord Ravenal.
a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This game he found at Mike McDonald’s “The Store.”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Here he was at home.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Here were excitement, luxury, companionship.
Chapter 16 of Show Boat by Edna Ferber holds 405 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 16 holds 405 sentences of Show Boat, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 16 of Show Boat by Edna Ferber exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 405 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 16 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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