Chapter 29 of The Hundredth Chance is here in full — 328 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXIX
Chapter 29 of The Hundredth Chance is here in full — 328 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last! Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it. Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure! Sit down. Sit down!
Chapter 29 of The Hundredth Chance is here in full — 328 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/65 · 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.
a young person of either sex
From this reading “Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!”
dearly loved
From this reading “Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.”
characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for
From this reading “Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.”
a safe place
From this reading “REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!”
be seated
From this reading “Sit down.”
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading “Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!”
utter “tsk,” “tut,” or “tut-tut,” as in disapproval
From this reading “Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!”
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading “REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!”
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.
take a seat
In this reading “Sit down.”
a prolonged period of time
In this reading “Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.”
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 Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!
the past participle of “be”
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
a young person of either sex
From this reading Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
dearly loved
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Sit down.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
immediately past
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
a safe place
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
be seated
From this reading Sit down.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading Dear me, you’ve been a precious long time about it.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
utter “tsk,” “tut,” or “tut-tut,” as in disapproval
From this reading Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Tut, tut, child, what a clothes-peg to be sure!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading REFUGE "So you’ve come to see your old uncle at last!
Chapter 29 of The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell holds 328 sentences, grouped into 66 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 29 holds 328 sentences of The Hundredth Chance, unabridged, divided into 66 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 29 of The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 328 sentences, grouped into 66 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 66 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 66 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 29 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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