Chapter 2 of The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’ ’What about Miss Cusworth?’ ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’ ’Compact? Compact?’
Chapter 2 of The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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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.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “’What about Miss Cusworth?’”
a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
From this reading “’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’”
Not remembered; lapsed from memory.
From this reading “’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’”
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading “’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’”
a person related by blood or marriage
From this reading “’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’”
definitely or positively (“sure” is sometimes used informally for “surely”)
From this reading “’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’”
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.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading ’What about Miss Cusworth?’
a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
From this reading ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’
Not remembered; lapsed from memory.
From this reading ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading ’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’
a person related by blood or marriage
From this reading ’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’
definitely or positively (“sure” is sometimes used informally for “surely”)
From this reading ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading ’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading ’That relative to Miss Cusworth.’
used to ask for information about something
From this reading ’What about Miss Cusworth?’
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’You surely have not forgotten our compact.’
Chapter 2 of The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould holds 402 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 402 sentences of The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3), unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 402 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.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3), each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
