Chapter 4 of The Voyage of Captain Popanilla is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of The Voyage of Captain Popanilla is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty. How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love! Unhappy Popanilla! Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished! Ah, pitiable youth!
Chapter 4 of The Voyage of Captain Popanilla is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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of surpassing excellence
From this reading “How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!”
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading “Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished!”
filled or abounding with fog or mist
From this reading “Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.”
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
From this reading “Ah, pitiable youth!”
unrestrained merrymaking
From this reading “How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!”
past form of “summon” — call in an official matter, such as to attend court
From this reading “How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!”
marked by dissimilarity
From this reading “How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!”
having passed out of existence
From this reading “Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished!”
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From this reading Ah, pitiable youth!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
of surpassing excellence
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
absence of light or illumination
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished!
causing dejection
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
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From this reading Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished!
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
a period of time assigned for work
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
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From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
filled or abounding with fog or mist
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
on one occasion
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
From this reading Ah, pitiable youth!
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From this reading Unhappy Popanilla!
unrestrained merrymaking
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
past form of “summon” — call in an official matter, such as to attend court
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
an old word for “your”, speaking to one person
From this reading Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
From this reading Unhappy Popanilla!
marked by dissimilarity
From this reading How unlike those brilliant hours that once summoned him to revelry and love!
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
having passed out of existence
From this reading Thy delicious Fantaisie has vanished!
United States actress and singer (1896-1977)
From this reading Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
a young person (especially a young man or boy)
From this reading Ah, pitiable youth!
Chapter 4 of The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli holds 112 sentences, grouped into 23 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 4 holds 112 sentences of The Voyage of Captain Popanilla, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.
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