Chapter 9 of The Mimic Stage is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of The Mimic Stage is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Stella._ You Festus? _Festus._ Oh, yes: I’m Festus! I came here by appointment. _Stella._ What do you mean, sir? I expected a gentleman here to read.
Chapter 9 of The Mimic Stage is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 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 act of putting a person into a non-elective position
From this reading “I came here by appointment.”
considered likely or probable to happen or arrive
From this reading “I expected a gentleman here to read.”
a man of refinement
From this reading “I expected a gentleman here to read.”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “_Stella._ What do you mean, sir?”
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading “I expected a gentleman here to read.”
term of address for a man
From this reading “_Stella._ What do you mean, sir?”
United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
an affirmative
From this reading “_Festus._ Oh, yes: I’m Festus!”
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 “I came here by appointment.”
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 I expected a gentleman here to read.
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
From this reading I came here by appointment.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading I came here by appointment.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading I came here by appointment.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading _Stella._ What do you mean, sir?
considered likely or probable to happen or arrive
From this reading I expected a gentleman here to read.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Stella._ You Festus?
a man of refinement
From this reading I expected a gentleman here to read.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading I came here by appointment.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I came here by appointment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Festus._ Oh, yes: I’m Festus!
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading _Stella._ What do you mean, sir?
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading _Festus._ Oh, yes: I’m Festus!
interpret something that is written or printed
From this reading I expected a gentleman here to read.
term of address for a man
From this reading _Stella._ What do you mean, sir?
United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
From this reading _Stella._ You Festus?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I expected a gentleman here to read.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading _Stella._ What do you mean, sir?
an affirmative
From this reading _Festus._ Oh, yes: I’m Festus!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading _Stella._ You Festus?
Chapter 9 of The Mimic Stage by George M. (George Melville) Baker holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 9 holds 417 sentences of The Mimic Stage, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of The Mimic Stage by George M. (George Melville) Baker exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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 9 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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How to work through The Mimic Stage section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Mimic Stage, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
