Chapter 2 of The Wizard of the Sea is here in full — 77 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Wizard of the Sea is here in full — 77 sentences across 16 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE GREAT FIGHT. "He is dead!" "Run for the doctor!" "A piece struck me, too!" "The cannon must have been overloaded!"
Chapter 2 of The Wizard of the Sea is here in full — 77 sentences across 16 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.
a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
From this reading “"The cannon must have been overloaded!"”
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading “"He is dead!"”
a licensed medical practitioner
From this reading “"Run for the doctor!"”
be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
From this reading “THE GREAT FIGHT.”
loaded past capacity
From this reading “"The cannon must have been overloaded!"”
a separate part of a whole
From this reading “"A piece struck me, too!"”
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading “"Run for the doctor!"”
(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
From this reading “"A piece struck me, too!"”
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 "A piece struck me, too!"
the past participle of “be”
From this reading "The cannon must have been overloaded!"
a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
From this reading "The cannon must have been overloaded!"
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading "He is dead!"
a licensed medical practitioner
From this reading "Run for the doctor!"
be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
From this reading THE GREAT FIGHT.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading "Run for the doctor!"
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading THE GREAT FIGHT.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "The cannon must have been overloaded!"
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "He is dead!"
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "He is dead!"
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "A piece struck me, too!"
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading "The cannon must have been overloaded!"
loaded past capacity
From this reading "The cannon must have been overloaded!"
a separate part of a whole
From this reading "A piece struck me, too!"
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading "Run for the doctor!"
(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
From this reading "A piece struck me, too!"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE GREAT FIGHT.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading "A piece struck me, too!"
Chapter 2 of The Wizard of the Sea by Roy Rockwood holds 77 sentences, grouped into 16 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 77 sentences of The Wizard of the Sea, unabridged, divided into 16 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Wizard of the Sea by Roy Rockwood exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 77 sentences, grouped into 16 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 16 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 16 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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