Chapter 2 of The golden windmill, and other stories is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The golden windmill, and other stories is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune. The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly. He sold out and netted a considerable sum. And then he had a brilliant inspiration. He would tell Diane nothing of this.
Chapter 2 of The golden windmill, and other stories is here in full — 404 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/80 · 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.
make a resonant sound, like artillery
From this reading “The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.”
arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
From this reading “And then he had a brilliant inspiration.”
the month following June and preceding August
From this reading “At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.”
having open interstices or resembling a web
From this reading “He sold out and netted a considerable sum.”
an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
From this reading “The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.”
plural of “share” — assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
From this reading “The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.”
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
From this reading “At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.”
a quantity of money
From this reading “He sold out and netted a considerable sum.”
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 “He sold out and netted a considerable sum.”
In this reading “At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.”
move upward
In this reading “The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.”
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 At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading He sold out and netted a considerable sum.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
make a resonant sound, like artillery
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
inflected form of “buy” — obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
of surpassing excellence
From this reading And then he had a brilliant inspiration.
large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree
From this reading He sold out and netted a considerable sum.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He would tell Diane nothing of this.
either extremity of something that has length
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
From this reading And then he had a brilliant inspiration.
the month following June and preceding August
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
having open interstices or resembling a web
From this reading He sold out and netted a considerable sum.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading He would tell Diane nothing of this.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading He sold out and netted a considerable sum.
United States feminist (1885-1977)
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
plural of “share” — assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
disposed of to a purchaser
From this reading He sold out and netted a considerable sum.
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
happening unexpectedly
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
a quantity of money
From this reading He sold out and netted a considerable sum.
express in words
From this reading He would tell Diane nothing of this.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading At the end of July Paul had a stroke of fortune.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading And then he had a brilliant inspiration.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading He would tell Diane nothing of this.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The rubber shares he had bought went up with a great boom, quite suddenly.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading He would tell Diane nothing of this.
Chapter 2 of The golden windmill, and other stories by Stacy Aumonier holds 404 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 2 holds 404 sentences of The golden windmill, and other stories, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The golden windmill, and other stories by Stacy Aumonier exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 404 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 2 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.
Common questions about reading The golden windmill, and other stories by Stacy Aumonier on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 0 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #? are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #?, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 5 minutes of reading across 0 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The golden windmill, and other stories section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 0 chapters of The golden windmill, and other stories to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in The golden windmill, and other stories, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
