Chapter 2 of The schoolmaster's trunk, containing papers on home-life in Tweenit is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The schoolmaster's trunk, containing papers on home-life in Tweenit is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HENRY T.--Henry T. Rogers. Young man. Began business in the city, and failed. Henry T. always held his head up high. Would have to come down.
Chapter 2 of The schoolmaster's trunk, containing papers on home-life in Tweenit is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 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.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading “Began business in the city, and failed.”
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading “Began business in the city, and failed.”
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading “Began business in the city, and failed.”
past form of “fail” — fail to do something; leave something undone
From this reading “Began business in the city, and failed.”
occupied or in the control of; often used in combination
From this reading “Henry T. always held his head up high.”
a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
From this reading “HENRY T.--Henry T. Rogers.”
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading “Henry T. always held his head up high.”
United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)
From this reading “HENRY T.--Henry T. Rogers.”
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.
a teenager or a young adult male
In this reading “Young man.”
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
In this reading “Would have to come down.”
In this reading “Began business in the city, and failed.”
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.
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading Henry T. always held his head up high.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Began business in the city, and failed.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading Began business in the city, and failed.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading Began business in the city, and failed.
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading Began business in the city, and failed.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Would have to come down.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading Would have to come down.
past form of “fail” — fail to do something; leave something undone
From this reading Began business in the city, and failed.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Would have to come down.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading Henry T. always held his head up high.
occupied or in the control of; often used in combination
From this reading Henry T. always held his head up high.
a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
From this reading HENRY T.--Henry T. Rogers.
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading Henry T. always held his head up high.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Henry T. always held his head up high.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Began business in the city, and failed.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading Young man.
United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)
From this reading HENRY T.--Henry T. Rogers.
a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
From this reading HENRY T.--Henry T. Rogers.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Began business in the city, and failed.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Would have to come down.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Henry T. always held his head up high.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Would have to come down.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading Young man.
Chapter 2 of The schoolmaster's trunk, containing papers on home-life in Tweenit by Abby Morton Diaz holds 398 sentences, grouped into 80 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 398 sentences of The schoolmaster's trunk, containing papers on home-life in Tweenit, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
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