Chapter 2 of The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 (of 2) is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 (of 2) is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_All._ No! no! It’s all right. Sit down--sit down. _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye! _Glundy._ Yes, Sir.
Chapter 2 of The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 (of 2) is here in full — 433 sentences across 87 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading “_Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!”
a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading “_Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!”
more quickly
From this reading “_Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!”
term of address for a man
From this reading “_Glundy._ Yes, Sir.”
be seated
From this reading “Sit down--sit down.”
fermented juice (of grapes especially)
From this reading “_Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!”
an affirmative
From this reading “_Glundy._ Yes, Sir.”
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.
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.
(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 _All._ No! no!
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Sit down--sit down.
a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; forms compounds that are highly magnetic
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It’s all right.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
not any; not one
From this reading _All._ No! no!
more quickly
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
precisely, exactly
From this reading It’s all right.
term of address for a man
From this reading _Glundy._ Yes, Sir.
be seated
From this reading Sit down--sit down.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
fermented juice (of grapes especially)
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
an affirmative
From this reading _Glundy._ Yes, Sir.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading _Ensign Luby._ Bring in the wine quicker, _you_ Glundy--dy’ hear, d--n ye!
Chapter 2 of The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Maginn holds 433 sentences, grouped into 87 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 433 sentences of The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 (of 2), unabridged, divided into 87 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Maginn exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 433 sentences, grouped into 87 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 87 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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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.
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