Chapter 13 of The Mimic Stage is here in full — 428 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XIII
Chapter 13 of The Mimic Stage is here in full — 428 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Harts._ Stwike! what a wevolution! You alawm me--you do, indeed. _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck. _Harts._ What’s to be done? _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
Chapter 13 of The Mimic Stage is here in full — 428 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 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 motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading “_Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.”
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading “_Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.”
made afraid
From this reading “_Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.”
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
plural of “hart” — United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)
(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
From this reading “_Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.”
except if; if not
From this reading “_Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.”
tell voluntarily
From this reading “_Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.”
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.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading _Harts._ Stwike! what a wevolution!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You alawm me--you do, indeed.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading You alawm me--you do, indeed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
having finished or arrived at completion
From this reading _Harts._ What’s to be done?
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
made afraid
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
plural of “hart” — United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)
From this reading _Harts._ Stwike! what a wevolution!
in truth (often tends to intensify)
From this reading You alawm me--you do, indeed.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading You alawm me--you do, indeed.
(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Harts._ Stwike! what a wevolution!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _Harts._ What’s to be done?
except if; if not
From this reading _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
tell voluntarily
From this reading _Green._ Don’t know; unless you volunteer to drive that car down.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Harts._ Stwike! what a wevolution!
used to ask for information about something
From this reading _Harts._ Stwike! what a wevolution!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Harts._ What’s to be done?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Green._ Well, don’t get frightened; you won’t be struck.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You alawm me--you do, indeed.
Chapter 13 of The Mimic Stage by George M. (George Melville) Baker holds 428 sentences, grouped into 86 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 13 holds 428 sentences of The Mimic Stage, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 13 of The Mimic Stage by George M. (George Melville) Baker exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 428 sentences, grouped into 86 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 86 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 86 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.
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